Releasing an Indie Album (after all these years …)

Over the last four months I’ve written, recorded and released an indie album called “Profound Techno-Boredom”.  The title is a reference to Heidegger’s notion of profound boredom and how it reveals the world as such, but in a different manner to the other mood he explores in detail, angst or profound anxiety. It’s been an…

New Video for “Every Place is Just the Same”

New Album – Profound Techno-Boredom by Semination State

After years (decades?) I decided to write a new album. The title is “Profound Techno-Boredom” in partial reference to Heidegger’s notions of technology and profound boredom as ways in which the world is revealed as such. You can listen to a couple of the songs at the links below, or the full album on ReverbNation…

The Passing of the Last God as the End of the Current Financial System

A few years ago I posted concerning the identity of the “Last  God” in Heidegger’s later works, identifying the last god as Janus, the two faced god of currency, and therefore as the origin of the global financial system.  Janus was substituted with Caesar, of course, then with Christ and  various other things since, but…

Being a Self and the Place of Man

Heidegger wrote somewhere or other that the four elements of any basic metaphysical stance were (paraphrasing from memory): The meaning of Being and of essence as the midpoint between Being and beings. The meaning of currency and its relation to economics, things and trade. The meaning of value as the mediator between price and worth.…

How the Results of Disruption Changes the Discussion Between Aficionados of Specific Languages and Environments

Although the previous articles only give a broad outline of the results of disruption and a single example.  If accepted as broadly the case, they change the ‘argument’ or discussion, as I prefer to think of it, particularly that between aficionados of environments that, while niche, are nevertheless general-purpose, stable and reliable. Firstly, those environments…

Disrupted Software the Disrupted Software Industry Uses to Build Disruptive Software

In the previous article I looked the ways and reasons the software industry disrupts the very tools it uses to write software, and the results in terms of disrupting itself. In this article I’d like to look at the nature of the development tools themselves and how disruption has affected the way they, and the…

Software is Virtual; the Virtual is Disruptive; Software Disrupts the Development of Software

That capitalism tends towards the virtual, and that the virtual is disruptive, not least to capitalism itself, is not a new idea. It’s already there in the work that ironically most defines capitalism, Marx’s Kapital.  If the latter seems like an odd statement, consider that Marx himself disowned what had come to be called, already,…

Reality and the ‘Simple’ True, or the True-in-Itself, or the Truth

Ostensibly we are free.  It is a claim that was stated clearly in the 18th century, though in a double manner, as ontological freedom by Kant together with factical unfreedom and the resulting inability to know the in-itself, and as freedom as an ‘inalienable human right’ together with the obviousness with which that inalienable right…

“Building-With Versus Building-On” Improving Software Development Incrementally

Three articles and a doctoral thesis that I came across or had pointed out to me recently deal with the state of the software industry from different angles. However different they are, they do relate, and by putting them together a more comprehensive view of both how we got to this state, and how we…