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Heidegger and World Judaism (Black Notebooks)

Posted on February 7, 2022 by zjb

[Only the first 3 volumes of “Ponderings” are out in English. Not a lot on Jews and Judaism. The appearance of “Jewish” is garden variety anti-Semitism. The appearance of the word “Judaism” indicates an (anti)metaphysical anti-Semitism that forms, philosophically, a … Continue reading →

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Habad in the Metaverse

Posted on February 4, 2022 by zjb

Habad scales up and out, creating the first Jewish outpost in the Metaverse, about which here. “The MANA Jewish Center will sit on a modest, grassy patch of land, circled by trees and pink flowers that pop up from underneath … Continue reading →

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Universe of Technical Images (The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT Galactic Center Mosaic)

Posted on February 4, 2022 by zjb

I was almost going to post the very polished photographic images that appeared here at the NYT about The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT Galactic Center Mosaic. They are definitely worth a look. But I couldn’t post them in good faith. The … Continue reading →

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I See Dead Professors On Zoom (Yevamot 96b-97a)

Posted on November 22, 2021 by zjb

Ripe for parody, this article at Slate about an online lecture-course hosted at Concordia by a professor of art history who had passed away sometime before says a lot about the neo-liberal university and the degradation of higher education, about … Continue reading →

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Space and Martian Synagogues (Larry Yudelson)

Posted on November 21, 2021 by zjb

To fantastic effect, Larry Yudelson put a bunch of images together at NeuralBlender, an AI site. From what I understand, you enter the prompt and the machine folds, in this case, a synagogue-look into 1970s sci fi cover art. For more … Continue reading →

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Online Anti-Semitism & Jewish Life in Europe During Covid

Posted on October 6, 2021 by zjb

Posting here the EU Report on anti-Semitism online after Covid. In addition to its status as a record, it highlights the conjunction between online platforms, the expression and organization of hate, and pandemic-culture in the digital West. Related is here: … Continue reading →

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(Star of Redemption) Spaceship

Posted on August 3, 2021 by zjb

Into life? Franz Rosenzweig was a futurist. Consciousness steps into a spaceship that spins around the axis of its own blood and time, lifts of from the historical time of planet earth singing Psalm 115, and flies straight into the … Continue reading →

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Spinoza Death Mask (Archive)

Posted on July 30, 2021 by zjb

This spectacular image was recently discovered in a box in an archive in a library at Columbia University, about which you can read here in this write-up by Marianna Najman-Franks (Barnard ’22). She found the death mask while working through … Continue reading →

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Creation/Contemplation of the Virtual World (Genesis Rabbah)

Posted on April 27, 2021 by zjb

Reading in seminar with Syracuse undergrad students Naama Erez, Sam Gelfand, Giulia Kean from Genesis Rabbah 1:4. According to the rabbis here, the Torah and Throne of Glory were created before the creation of the physical world, and the contemplation … Continue reading →

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(Zombies) Animated Jewish Philosophers

Posted on February 28, 2021 by zjb

Animated Moses Maimonides. pic.twitter.com/78oAQcskLz — Dov (@drnelk) February 28, 2021 The Socrates of Berlin, Moses Mendelssohn pic.twitter.com/2chJwtjwfS — Dov (@drnelk) February 28, 2021   I wonder if something not similarly ghostly, ghastly, machinic is at work in the tricks played … Continue reading →

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