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lillibet ([personal profile] lillibet) wrote2008-06-26 10:37 pm

Juxtaposition

I find myself contemplating Battlestar Galactica from a Heideggerian perspective.
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[personal profile] dpolicar 2008-06-27 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Um.
OK, you've out-philosophy-geeked me.
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[identity profile] lillibet.livejournal.com 2008-06-27 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm reading a critical history of science fiction that talks about Heidegger's focus on the issue of "Being" and the science fiction examination of technological objects that approach Heiddegerean Being-in-the-World and Being-towards-Death. Battlestar Galactica seems deeply engaged with this process.
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[personal profile] dpolicar 2008-06-27 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Yeah, I never really could wrap my brain around what Heiddeger was going on about with respect to Being as a precondition vs Being as, um, whatever it is Heiddeger was going on about.

[identity profile] lillibet.livejournal.com 2008-06-27 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I wrapped my head around it just long enough to pass that exam and haven't thought of it particularly in the past twenty years. But I kept enough to at least follow arguments that reference it.

One of the things that impressed me most about Freedom & Necessity was that it actually gave me an urge to re-read Hegel. Fleeting, but an urge nonetheless.