Interview with Cuban Philosopher Alexis Jardines

Hello everyone, welcome to Barf Stew - yes, I missed you all yesterday - as I've said, this is a `near daily' blog (keeps me from feeling too guilty when no posts are made). That said, I've found yet another winner of a link for you to consider today - an interview with a `Philosopher' who loves Phenomenology (like myself). Here's a few highlights:
AF: Alexis, you promote “actual-virtual correlations” as the central axis of your philosophical system as a way of upgrading the systems of Edmund Husserl and Henry Bergson. Given that this thought is so very different, how has it been received among your co-workers?


Alexis Jardines: Allow me a small correction. As I present and develop them, the concepts of the actual and the virtual are the heirs of the whole western metaphysical tradition. What happened with Husserl and Bergson is that they were the first philosophers who became conscious of the importance of these concepts.

In fact, until these thinkers, such terms —especially as correlated concepts— simply did not figure in the history of philosophy or, since they were not absolute, in any of the important philosophical systems. Just as the Aristotelian categories of “action” and “potential,” the “ideal” and the “material,” as well as “possibility” and “reality,” or “essence” and “existence” are all subsumed in the single idea of correlations or “actual-virtual configurations,” without them, one simply cannot think of the current state of culture.

In terms of the acceptance of such propositions, it is only a matter of time. Due to superficial reflection, undoubtedly, it might seem that the philosopher is a species in danger of extinction. On the other hand, the sole reason there are few philosophers in the world is that the world has decided to begin to philosophize.

Heavy Enough? Wait until you read his thoughts about `Structured Knowledge' Read more - as this link has `actual-virtual correlations' to Today's Barf Stew Tag. http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=24472

And for more Barf Stew news - why not build a real UFO this weekend - here's some patents - http://www.ufohowto.com/

Is this the REAL Canadian `Spiral' last week? With video - high strangeness for sure - and definitely - Barf Stew. http://beforeitsnews.com/news/50/965/Is_this_the_real_UFO_Canada_spiral_footage.html

Sexy Picture - http://www.thecaptainsmemos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hotpants/1.jpg Are these the tightest pants ever worn in public?

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Robot Building for Beginners (Technology in Action)
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The E.L.F.E.N. Project - Real Research Into Gnomes, Elves, Fairies and Other Small People

It is with great pleasure that I can begin your holiday weekend with such a great read. - Yes, real research into the phenomena of `little people' -- with Barf Stew stats such as: The profile which is emerging from the ELFEN Project of those who have encounters with little people is that males and females see them with equal frequency. Forty-six percent of encounters are in natural landscapes, and a surprising 27% are inside houses and an additional 23% in the vicinity of houses. In three different reports they have been present at the bedside when a person awakened.


Forests are the next most likely environment where one can meet little people (29% of the time) followed by the general countryside (19%), around water (15%) or around rocks (17%). Urban areas account for a surprising 25% of reports. Eighty-six percent of the time children encountered or played with more than one being. Adult encounters are also more likely to involve more than one being (61% of encounters) and only one entity (39% of encounters) and most of these are rather short fleeting events. Eighty-seven percent of all sightings were uncertain about gender, particularly when small elves appear in large concentrations (we developed a term for this: an elevation of elves or a folly of fagles), -- I assure you - this is just a sliver of the facts you can find out about Earth's little people via this link http://www.elfenproject.com/results.asp who enchanted us into giving it Today's Barf Stew Tag.

OK, here's a new twist to a staple in the kitchen - a cooking show with - heavy metal music - Metal Cookshow Launches…    -  http://www.metalmaniacs.com/2010/metal-cookshow-launches/ Stewable, of course.


How's this for fitting the category `Barf Stew' -- new `evidence' about the D.B. Cooper case (yes the guy that jumped out of the airplane with a parachute with money) - including the NAME of who it was (conveniently dead) http://www.standard.net/topics/crime/2010/05/22/db-cooper-mystery-did-witness-see-hijackers-parachute

More Links:
Into The Blast - The True Story of D.B. Cooper
Legend of D. B. Cooper - Death by Natural Causes
The Legend of D B Cooper


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The Man Who Shook Up Vegas

Shortly, the World Series of Poker is going to begin in Las Vegas - with thousands looking to get to the final table - and the fame that comes with being the best. So, to honor the Great Texas Hold'em tournament - I've pulled out an `oldie' link from 2007. But, that said, it probably is a story you have never heard and is a story about a common man who worked up a seeming advantage over the big Vegas bookies - doubling down for Today's Barf Stew Tag. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116796079037267731-wjPu4ACcg5J5Qvjh05IYEI_Ooeo_20070112.html - Stewable.

It was a debate today as to whether this highly Barf Stew story should be the headline - First human 'infected with computer virus' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10158517.stm - I don't think this is an insignificant story - two minute read.

In other news - Bigfoot KEEPING AN EYE OUT FOR SPOTSY SASQUATCH - http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2010/052010/05252010/550363/index_html?page=1 - I think they will Barf when they realize that the date they give for the Bigfoot film was NOT in 1962. Could a Bigfoot be in Virginia?

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More Links:
Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds
The Voices in My Head: A story of triumph over tragedy and beating the odds in Vegas
Beating The Wheel: The System That Has Won over Six Million Dollars from Las Vegas to Monte Carlo

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