<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post8405020957241988384..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>23</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7134311501295621199</id><published>2007-03-15T09:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-15T09:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>John, thanks much for this.  I am deeply impressed...</title><summary type='text'>John, thanks much for this.  I am deeply impressed by Rouault just now, and loved that image you presented.  There doesn&#39;t seem to be anything similar going on in Lutheran circles, but there ought to be.  Was rereading Aquinas last night: most Lutheran theologians take him very seriously.  I read a lot of him when I was preparing my book Gregory Corso: Doubting Thomist, which argues that Corso </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/7134311501295621199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/7134311501295621199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173965040000#c7134311501295621199' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1678267365753494369</id><published>2007-03-14T18:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T18:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>kirbyfrancois mauriac once statedthe degeneracy be...</title><summary type='text'>kirby&lt;BR/&gt;francois mauriac once stated&lt;BR/&gt;the degeneracy began to be&lt;BR/&gt;noted in art the further artists&lt;BR/&gt;went from the dictates of faith&lt;BR/&gt;coinciding with the cult of personality beginning&lt;BR/&gt;in the early 1800&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;that he would rather see &lt;BR/&gt;all the anonymous beauty&lt;BR/&gt;in chartres&lt;BR/&gt;before considering the work&lt;BR/&gt;of picasso or gaugin&lt;BR/&gt;i think it fair to say&lt;BR/&gt;that van gogh </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/1678267365753494369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/1678267365753494369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173910860000#c1678267365753494369' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9070674503266001003</id><published>2007-03-14T09:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T09:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Luther cut patronage for the visual arts because s...</title><summary type='text'>Luther cut patronage for the visual arts because so much money had spent on this by the Catholics.  Luther had visited Rome and seen the Michelangelo ceiling and other expensive projects getting built while Germans starved.  So while he wasn&#39;t against the arts: his friends included Albrecht Durer and Lucas Cranach -- he felt that arts were separate from theology, and were free to go their own way</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/9070674503266001003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/9070674503266001003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173879240000#c9070674503266001003' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6920757378965615779</id><published>2007-03-13T18:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T18:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>kirbyi don&#39;t know what you meanby stating that the...</title><summary type='text'>kirby&lt;BR/&gt;i don&#39;t know what you mean&lt;BR/&gt;by stating that the &quot;catholic&quot; countries suffered&lt;BR/&gt;at the time of luther&lt;BR/&gt;it was all catholic in europe&lt;BR/&gt;catholic and jewish&lt;BR/&gt;the jews were feeling some of the pain by then&lt;BR/&gt;i think a case could be made for spain and portugal&lt;BR/&gt;but even these places can boast&lt;BR/&gt;non religious intellectuals and poets&lt;BR/&gt;over the past 400 years&lt;BR/&gt;but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/6920757378965615779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/6920757378965615779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173824700000#c6920757378965615779' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4056111359559509064</id><published>2007-03-13T18:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T18:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Minneapolis may be one state of exception to the g...</title><summary type='text'>Minneapolis may be one state of exception to the general rule.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Philadelphia - Harrisburg.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;New York City - Albany.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Portland - Salem.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Los Angeles - Sacramento.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s more the general rule.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/4056111359559509064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/4056111359559509064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173824400000#c4056111359559509064' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8586314030655423391</id><published>2007-03-13T16:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T16:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby wrote:Grunge music for instance started in O...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;Grunge music for instance started in Olympia and only later went to Seattle where the larger record labels were at.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Wrong.  Grunge started in Seattle, check Green River, Mudhoney and Soundgarden, etc.  Riot Grrrl started in Olympia as did The International Pop Underground.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your point about dispersed power is good even if your facts are wrong.  Here in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/8586314030655423391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/8586314030655423391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173817260000#c8586314030655423391' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15418310802340579561</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-326822307"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2573215472870525688</id><published>2007-03-13T15:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T15:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That’s from the Johannes Hohlenberg bio.  His crit...</title><summary type='text'>That’s from the Johannes Hohlenberg bio.  His critics would later allege that the legs of his pants were tailored in unequal lengths, but he needed all those books.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/2573215472870525688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/2573215472870525688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173814560000#c2573215472870525688' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6410596153861774940</id><published>2007-03-13T10:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T10:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>WW, I think the Catholic countries suffered tremen...</title><summary type='text'>WW, I think the Catholic countries suffered tremendously from not having lived through the Reformation.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Counterreformation snuffed free thought and left those countries far behind in almost every respect.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes created a huge exodus of some of the best minds and best workers in France.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Something similar is happening to the Islamic </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/6410596153861774940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/6410596153861774940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173797940000#c6410596153861774940' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5087001204095077179</id><published>2007-03-13T10:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T10:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, I had no idea that Kierkegaard has such a swe...</title><summary type='text'>Ian, I had no idea that Kierkegaard has such a sweet tooth!  Where did you get this info?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do have a little biography of him at home that I haven&#39;t read. Kierkegaard was a bit bats and I find it difficult to enter his zone for very long.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for letting me know this detail.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He&#39;s surprising. I read the first part of the biography and it said that Kierkegaard loved </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/5087001204095077179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/5087001204095077179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173797760000#c5087001204095077179' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7795633473448464363</id><published>2007-03-13T01:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T01:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A note to the Lutheran Surrealist,The French:  &quot;sh...</title><summary type='text'>A note to the Lutheran Surrealist,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The French:  &quot;should be a little more Lutheran, in my view.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is this despite the French hating the Germans and vice versa?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Still prevalent....although underground.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;WW</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/7795633473448464363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/7795633473448464363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173763260000#c7795633473448464363' title=''/><author><name>WW</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08713548779888354920</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7454/1860/1600/24762810.1363672_IMG.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2072551781"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1519030805010925934</id><published>2007-03-12T20:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T20:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirbs, Though your views on philosophy are wronghe...</title><summary type='text'>Kirbs, Though your views on philosophy are wrongheaded to the core you say what a lot of American department chairs say but without all the qualifying tangents and contrived diction.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The French political elite tend to have gone to the same schools, and are being encroached on increasingly by smaller parties and relative outsiders.  The votes for Trotskyism are rising gradually with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/1519030805010925934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/1519030805010925934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173747240000#c1519030805010925934' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1244562115850775732</id><published>2007-03-12T14:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T14:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Louis XIV (I think it was) had deliberately concen...</title><summary type='text'>Louis XIV (I think it was) had deliberately concentrated all French power in the capital, where it remains to this day.  If you didn&#39;t go to Paris you didn&#39;t have any representation.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The states are different in two ways: every capital city in each state has a cultural milieu of some kind, and then there are large cities in each state (usually they are separate from the capital) and so </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/1244562115850775732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/1244562115850775732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173723660000#c1244562115850775732' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5732809209074151293</id><published>2007-03-12T10:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T10:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bill borneman, could you give more details from yo...</title><summary type='text'>Bill borneman, could you give more details from your memory on the ensuing conversation that took place? Who was there, and what was the general buzz?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron&#39;s talk is so dense that delivered orally it must have been almost impossible to follow.  I read it twice, slowing way the heck down and lingering over sentences, and still I don&#39;t think I understand it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What did people get </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/5732809209074151293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/5732809209074151293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173708600000#c5732809209074151293' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6007395316515911468</id><published>2007-03-12T02:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T02:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It probably is Algren.... Algren does fit the ‘hau...</title><summary type='text'>It probably is Algren.... Algren does fit the ‘haunted’and ‘writes as a last recourse’ tag and Sartre knew a lot about Algren and the affair when he published ‘Situation’ in Les Temps Modernes in April of 1947 - supportive of Algren and his attachment to Simone because he had a fling going with Dolores Vanetti in Paris and wanted Simone’s return postponed.  The Irishman part may have been to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/6007395316515911468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/6007395316515911468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173679440000#c6007395316515911468' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5414389257799311300</id><published>2007-03-11T20:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T20:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>According to Wikipedia SdB had her first orgasm wi...</title><summary type='text'>According to Wikipedia SdB had her first orgasm with Nelson Algren while she was on a lecture tour in Chicago in 1947.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However, his father was a Swede converted to Judaism and his mom was Jewish. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The date is right on the button, but the ethnicity is off.  Could JpS have been confused about the ethnicity?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/5414389257799311300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/5414389257799311300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173659280000#c5414389257799311300' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2373366093867060407</id><published>2007-03-11T19:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T19:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby:  I think Baudrillard&#39;s English was fairly r...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby:  I think Baudrillard&#39;s English was fairly rudimentary.  I don&#39;t thin k he understood what was going down.     Not that I talked to him.  I&#39;m saying he appeared pretty puzzled by Ron&#39;s response and the &quot;dialogue&quot; that ensued that night.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/2373366093867060407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/2373366093867060407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173657540000#c2373366093867060407' title=''/><author><name>borneman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03509967837196635043</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1302075110"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1121752182611380203</id><published>2007-03-11T19:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T19:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmm, I seemed to have missed that reductive Foucau...</title><summary type='text'>Hmm, I seemed to have missed that reductive Foucault reference around the sixteenth paragraph.  Which doesn’t necessarily negate my views on the subconscious source of the cyborg, but does negate the big brother thing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/1121752182611380203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/1121752182611380203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173655320000#c1121752182611380203' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8639569492844599748</id><published>2007-03-11T13:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T13:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirbs, Algren&#39;s affair was a bit later and he wasn...</title><summary type='text'>Kirbs, Algren&#39;s affair was a bit later and he wasn&#39;t Irish.  Sartre may have read or had explained to him Farrell&#39;s A Note on Literary Criticism, so goes my speculation, since it relates to a lot of the same things he was writing about.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/8639569492844599748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/8639569492844599748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173633120000#c8639569492844599748' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-741426176797084124</id><published>2007-03-11T11:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T11:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As I tried to summarize the argument to myself las...</title><summary type='text'>As I tried to summarize the argument to myself last evening (I really enjoyed its density but couldn&#39;t find its outline -- couldn&#39;t see the forest for the trees) I realized that it opens with a condemnation of the supposed socialism of China and the USSR and its colonies in Eastern Europe.  But then there is the bizarre argument that Stalin tried to enforce from above what was no longer tenable </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/741426176797084124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/741426176797084124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173626400000#c741426176797084124' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3626037127018215150</id><published>2007-03-11T00:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T00:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I have an old friend who, for many years, had a le...</title><summary type='text'>I have an old friend who, for many years, had a legal practice representing TS clients. If I can trust my memory for a 1989 detail, I believe it was she who shared that with me.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/3626037127018215150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/3626037127018215150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173589560000#c3626037127018215150' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2424115668195420060</id><published>2007-03-10T23:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T23:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is way off topic, but where did you get your ...</title><summary type='text'>This is way off topic, but where did you get your information about post-operative transsexuals&#39; suicide rates?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/2424115668195420060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/2424115668195420060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173587400000#c2424115668195420060' title=''/><author><name>I&#39;m Not A Boy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07314085658601610284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-439659674"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6483365184123016139</id><published>2007-03-10T19:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T19:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Though I’ve never read this before, this is the ph...</title><summary type='text'>Though I’ve never read this before, this is the phase of Ron’s (your) critical career that I like the best; this being personal and not an objective assessment, since this was the new stuff coming out when I was an undergrad – the oxygen I needed when I felt most suffocated.  The strengths of this essay, considerable strengths, are the explication of Ron’s reading of Baudrillard and the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/6483365184123016139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/6483365184123016139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173572280000#c6483365184123016139' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-621245369788111161</id><published>2007-03-10T14:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T14:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>When you spoke with him after the talk, how was hi...</title><summary type='text'>When you spoke with him after the talk, how was his English?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/621245369788111161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8405020957241988384/comments/default/621245369788111161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html?showComment=1173555600000#c621245369788111161' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-do-cyborgs-want-paris-suburb-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8405020957241988384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8405020957241988384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2007"/></entry></feed>