Cologne 02-Jan-2007

My current artefact writings now have improved formatting for enhanced
readability. Please note that due to the reformatting, several
sub-directories with their sub-files have been deleted.

1. An Other Beginning — Here Comes Everybody: The Joycean
work of art
against the foil of Heidegger’s thinking
Paper presented to the conference Heidegger und die
Dichtung in
Meßkirch 24-28 May 2006.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/jychdggr.html

2. Technology, Technique, Interplay: Questioning Die Frage
nach der
Technik
Paper presented to the conference 4. Aussprache über
die Philosophie
Martin Heideggers 01-03 June 2006 at the Bergische
University in
Wuppertal, Germany.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/tchniply.html

3. Painting close to the origin
A philosophical note on how and what Jon Groom's art
work reveals.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/grmpntng.html

4. Social Power and Government — With a focus on Hobbes’
political
philosophy
Thesis: the phenomenon of specifically social power,
and in particular,
political social power, has not been conceived
adequately in the
philosophical tradition starting with Plato and
Aristotle.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/sclpwrgv.html

5. Exchange, Value, Justice
A study passing through Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl
Marx that
rethinks exchange-value in connection with the question
of the justice
of so-called 'bourgeois relations of production'.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/exchvljs.html

6. The Principle of Reason and Justice
Leaping from the ground through Leibniz, Hegel,
Nietzsche and
Heidegger to Anaximander and the groundlessness of
interplay.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/prncprsn.html

7. Questioning the Earth's Value
Including a proposal for a capitalist carbon sink
industry. The crux of
this proposal depends on seeing clearly that the
concept of ground-rent
is the appropriate one for grasping the value of the
Earth under that
constellation of being called capitalism.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/qstnerth.html

8. Why social justice is a specious idea
Because it obfuscates the charitable nature of social
welfare, the idea
of social justice leads inevitably to an all-caring,
social-totalitarian state
that dangerously interferes with the free metabolism of
civil society and
undermines the independence and self-reliance of civil
society's
members.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/scljstsp.html

9. Social Being, Whoness, Freedom — A Sketch
Paper as presented to the 24th North Texas Heidegger
Symposium
Erde—Welt—Umwelt 8-9 April 2005 at The University of
Dallas, Irving,
Texas. The thoughts here are distilled from my Social
Ontology.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/sbwhofrd.html

10. Assessing How Heidegger Thinks Power Through the
History of Being
The trace of how Heidegger thinks power through the
history of being
can be followed back to the concept of energeia in
Aristotle's
Metaphysics. According to Heidegger, this concept is
the start of the
trajectory of the being of beings cast as Wirklichkeit,
actuality. Energeia
is paired metaphysically with dynamis, i.e. power,
potential, capability.
One such power is the art of rhetoric, famously also
investigated by
Aristotle. But what is the power of such a know-how
when faced with
the otherness of the other?...
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/pwrrhtrc.html

11. Cologne Theses 03 June 2004
Theses on how Heidegger's thinking has to be extended
and revamped
to cope with the phenomenon of the other human being,
the as yet
unfolded fold in being covered by the 'second person',
both singular
and plural.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/clgnthss.html

12. Heidegger's Restricted Interpretation of the Greek
Conception of the
Political
Revised and extended version of a paper 'Heidegger's
Apolitical
Conception of the Political' (see below) presented to
the 22nd.
Heidegger Symposium History, Historicity and Mystery in
Heidegger
30 October-02 November, 2002 University of North Texas.

http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/rstrpltc.html

13. 1984 Preface to
Critique of Competitive Freedom and the
Bourgeois-Democratic State
This is the preface to my Ph.D. dissertation in
Philosophy accepted by
the University of Sydney in 1984.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/ccfbdspf.html

14. Heidegger's Apolitical Conception of the Political
Twisting Heidegger's thinking into the 'horizontal' of
social relations.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl.html

15. Casting within Enpropriation and the Leap from Standing
Presence
Some observations on Heidegger's Beiträge zur
Philosophie and
leave-taking from metaphysics.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/cstgenpr.html

16. Metaphysics of Feminism: A Critical Note on Judith
Butler's Gender Trouble
Today's feminist discourse claims to be situated beyond
the strictures
of the metaphysics of substance. Butler's call for the
subversion of
"matrices of cultural intelligibility that govern
gendered life" does not go
deep enough in questioning gender.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/mtphysfm.html

17. Entwurf einer digitalen Ontologie (Draft Casting of a
Digital Ontology)
A study (in both German and English) of the digital
casting of beings in
the digital age. Where do the digital beings cast
before us today come
from?
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/dgtlontl.html
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/dgtlon_e.html

18. Worldsharing and Encounter: Heidegger and Lévinas
On the ontology of togetherness (Mitsein), with a
critical excursus on
Lévinas' ethics of the Other as contrast.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/wrldshrg.html

19. The Quivering of Propriation: A Parallel Way to Music
In parallel to the way language makes way to language,
music makes
way to music. Initially, this formula does not make
much sense...
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/qvrpropn.html

20. Heidegger's Hölderlin and John Cage
English version of a paper that attempts to substitute
John Cage for
Hölderlin in Heidegger's thought.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/heicagen.html

21. Heideggers Hölderlin und/and John Cage
German version of the preceding paper.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/heicagde.html

22. Capital and Technology: Marx and Heidegger
English version of a paper that crosses and entwines
Marx and
Heidegger to think through the essence of technology
and capitalism in
a unified way.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/capiteen.html

23. Kapital und Technik: Marx und Heidegger
German version of the preceding paper.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/kapitech.html

24. kaum ständig noch (barely still standing) -
Phenomenology of Masculinity
A treatise in German on masculinity, whose ontology is
explored
through a phenomenology of whoness. A radical,
genuinely
philosophical alternative to feminist discourse to date
(cultural studies,
psychoanalysis, etc.) is offered.
http://home.tiscali.de/artefact/kaumstan.html

25. As — A Critical Note on D.F. Krell's 'Daimon Life'
Having it out with Krell's treatise on life and
life-philosophy.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/as_krell.html

Forthcoming: Posthumous Writings.

Good thinking!
Michael
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