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Digital philosophy

16 Sunday Jun 2013

Posted by Amod Lele in Friends, Metaphilosophy, Social Science

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academia, Aristotle, Elisa Freschi, lokatakki (commenter), Matt Wilkens, Mencius, Pune, Randall Collins, skholiast (blogger), technology

The term digital humanities has quickly become trendy over the past couple years. The term has often excited me, since digital technology in the humanities is both a part of what I do for a living, and what makes my humanistic scholarship on this blog possible. So I’ve followed discussions of digital humanities, such as the HUMANIST mailing list, with interest.

I remain deeply interested in the field, but I’ve also begun to acquire some skepticism toward it. Continue reading →

Coming to like modern India

03 Sunday Feb 2013

Posted by Amod Lele in Aesthetics, Family, Food, Modern Hinduism, Place, Pleasure, Rites

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architecture, autobiography, Pune, Thailand

This post will be a little less philosophical, strictly speaking at least, than is usual here. Readers have found my autobiographical explorations interesting in the past, and I hope this will be similarly so.

I recently returned from India, to have a traditional Indian wedding ceremony. (I’ve been married for two and a half years, but my Indian friends and relatives could not attend that ceremony, nor did it have Indian gods presiding over it.) It’s an unfortunate irony that I have been able to get to India much less frequently ever since I started studying it. My previous trip was at the beginning of 2005; it had been eight years between that trip and the one I just returned from, whereas in my childhood the years between trips were no more than three. And I’m very glad to have had this trip, for it made quite a different impression on me from the previous ones. Continue reading →

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