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Interpreting Modern Philosophy
By James Collins
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The Historical Turn in Contemporary Philosophy
In every creative field, but perhaps especially in philosophy, we tend to use the term "contemporary" not only in a eulogistic way but also as expressing our relief at escaping the burden of the past. The term often conveys the sense of crossing a territorial border and cutting off a bridge behind ourselves, a bridge that would have permitted the great dead philosophers to count for too much in our present inquiries. We sometimes feel that their presence would be overbearing and would inhibit our own efforts at innovation and argument. Not a historical sense of perspective but a liberation from historical perspectives, a distancing of ourselves from the history of philosophy, seems to provide the proper conditions for doing good contemporary work in philosophy.
This view of the historical factor is an initial, yet essential, stage in the formation of any sense of contemporaneity in philosophy. Throughout the long development of philosophy, every age has had to struggle toward achieving its own identity and its own assurance of doing worthwhile new work. The sense of contemporaneity is never simply given to a group of philosophers but must be worked out and won by them through a painful process of discussion, which takes time and involves several stages.
It is particularly in the opening phase of such a process that creative philosophers find it necessary to regard the work of their predecessors as burdensome, as a weight to be sloughed off on peril of having one's own efforts dampened and underestimated. In this spirit, a Descartes and a Locke were impelled to treat their historical past as a crazy-quilt town which had to be reduced to rubble and cleared away, before they could arouse a sense of the contemporary for themselves and their age. In the same spirit, Kant was obliged to declare a moratorium on the work of all previous metaphysicians and philosophers of man, so that he might breathe some clean contemporary air and think out the issues in a new fashion. Even the historically inclined Hegel had to break loose from previous conceptions of substance and spirit and renew the problem of the starting point in philosophy, so that the revolutionary aspect of his thought could find a present tense in which to actualize itself.
To appreciate the full nature of these notable efforts at achieving contemporaneity in philosophy, however, we must also notice that none of the thinkers just cited was content with maintaining forever the charge of burdensomeness against his own historical roots. That attitude toward the philosophical past did have a real function to perform. It helped to distinguish between the act of philosophizing and a mere repetition of earlier categories and formulas, as well as to shift the accent from timid respect for the past to a critical analysis of present issues. Yet once this office was performed, the freely developed stance of separating oneself from the past had served its purpose. It could not be allowed to harden into a conventional obstacle, in its own turn, against the further ripening of the contemporanizing process. The great minds which constituted the Cartesian or Kantian or Hegelian modes of contemporaneity ultimately met their responsibility toward their own historical sources. A Descartes worked his way very carefully through the arguments of the schoolmen and the skeptics; a Kant acknowledged the dual challenge of the Leibnizian and Lockean notions of mind and its objects; and a Hegel incorporated into his philosophical present the endeavors of many great antecedents.
It is not unexpected, then, that our own meaning of contemporary philosophy should undergo a similar growth. We can all sympathize with, and enjoy, the remark which Frederick Woodbridge used to throw at his philosophy seminar in Columbia University: "Modem philosophy, thank God, is at last over." What makes this an instructive observation is its twin-barbed purpose. For one thing, Woodbridge was calling attention to the unwarranted appropriation of the term "modern philosophy" by the nineteenth-century idealistic historians of philosophy, who sought to identify the historical study of the sources with their own interpretation and thus to reduce the history of modern philosophy to an arm of the idealistic argument itself. It is necessary to declare an end to this suffocating type of historical determinism, and indeed to any provincial use of history of philosophy which seeks to draw a single, exclusivist moral from the whole development. But, secondly, Woodbridge himself got over this historical monism in such a manner that he could still work as the most historically oriented of the American naturalists of his generation. Through his sympathetic efforts, American naturalism was led to make a new reading of Aristotle and Spinoza, Locke and the evolutionary sources. Thus he built into at least one strain of contemporary philosophizing a sense of the theoretical opportunities furnished by a study of past thinkers.
A similar broadening of the meaning of contemporary philosophy to include its historical dimension is going on in other philosophical movements. The initial phase is represented by the time-honored application of the terms "revolution" and "turn" to a new philosophical method. Thus we speak about the revolution in philosophy effected by Husserl's phenomenological method, by Carnap's positivism, or by the procedures of Wittgenstein and Ryle. The feeling of liberation from history of philosophy, regarded as burdensome, finds somewhat playful expression in the practice of dating contemporary philosophy from some favorite article or book. Perhaps contemporary philosophy begins with Husserl's Logos article of 1911, or with a John Wisdom article of 1938, or with some landmark of the 1950's. On this reckoning, everything done prior to the landmark belongs in a remote ancient history, for the serious study of which philosophers are no longer responsible.
Kant's word "turn" has the added advantage of suggesting that contemporary philosophers have rounded a bend which leaves the historical sources out of sight and out of mind. But now, in the last quarter of our century, we are finding it increasingly difficult to translate this metaphor into any determinate meaning which the philosophical community finds acceptable, either as a theoretical statement or as a practical proposal. Whether we regard the decisive contemporary turning as being chiefly linguistic or analytical, phenomenological or existential, we are coming to realize that it does not signify any permanent rejection of philosophy's historical roots (however chronologically demarcated ) or of the continuing responsibility to reconsider them with critical freshness. Our sense of contemporaneity matures in the degree that we recognize that history of philosophy has made the turn along with the new methods and in the function of being their still sustaining matrix.
Historically generated issues have rounded the bend with the other interests in contemporary philosophy. Now it is important to recover familiarity with how we study the historical sources and relate them to our other philosophical concerns. A certain amount of disuse of historical approaches has rendered this topic not only unhackneyed but also slightly strange and ready for new analyses. As an aid in reorientation, I will first of all take a closer look at some underlying reasons for this phenomenon of the historical turn, as constituting part of the meaning of contemporary philosophy. Working out from this situation, I will then suggest a working hypothesis concerning how we gain historical access to modern philosophy. The task of the later chapters will be to examine in detail the specific points contained in that hypothesis.
1. The Stimulus for Historical Study
For our own self-understanding, it is helpful to probe into the intellectual conditions which today are quickening the pace of interest in the historical aspect of philosophy. Certainly, the least significant influence is that exerted by purely cultural proponents of the historical approach in all phases of education. Their recommendations are too general, and too extrinsic to the actual work going on in philosophy, to exert any decisive influence. What counts for philosophers is not a cultural recommendation of history — which can always be kept at arm's length, as signifying an admirable adornment but not an essential need — but some internal developments in the course of philosophical inquiry itself.
Can the growing appreciation of the great philosophers in our past be attributed primarily to the efforts of the professional historians of philosophy? Surely, they have contributed something toward it simply by tending to their job, by continuing to improve their textual tools and interpretive studies of the major sources. The instruments for doing any level of historical work are today far richer and more serviceable to the philosophical community than they were a generation ago. One reason why the question of history and theory has to be reopened is that the historical pole in this comparison has not remained static. During the same years when our contemporary philosophies were under formation, the resources of history of philosophy were also making a steady growth. Thus the situation of a short generation ago has changed, not only in its theoretical components but also in its historical.
Nevertheless, I do not think that the historical advances are sufficient, of themselves, to accomplish the broad revision of thinking on the value of historical factors for the theoretical enterprise itself. To see the current relevance of the sources requires an act of recognition on the part of those minds engaged in original inquiries. The striking difference between the mid-century point and now is precisely that such recognition of the importance of history is forthcoming from a wide compass of creative thinkers, representing the main contemporary philosophies. This stronger appreciation is not peculiar to some one school, moreover, but can be observed operating within several quite different philosophical contexts. A revaluating of history develops in response to some definite problems and tendencies common to all the present ways of philosophizing. There are at least three features of the contemporary situation in philosophy which help to quicken an interest in the contributions of historical work. These centers of stimulus concern the dispersion technique, the purist split, and the pattern of university education.
One negative, yet significant, point is the failure of the dispersion technique for dealing with source materials. In many universities, there was a practice of consigning the ancient philosophers to the classics department or to a separate philological corps within the philosophy department, and then of regarding the medieval, Renaissance, and modern philosophers mainly as material for the history of ideas. If this practice had succeeded in the long run, it would have effected the dispersion of the tasks of history of philosophy and hence the destruction of its distinctive function within philosophy itself. But the experience of the past quarter century suggests that, while history of philosophy benefits tremendously from the services of philology and history of ideas, it never loses its identity and gets dissolved into these other disciplines. Their work is helpful to it in an instrumental fashion, without requiring either the reduction of these disciplines to a purely instrumental status or the reduction of history of philosophy itself to a shadowy repetition of their findings. Each is serviceable to the other, without either one losing sight of the tasks distinctively set for itself.
That there is more meaning in the ancient philosophical texts than can be delivered in purely philological terms is strikingly witnessed by the continuing effort of philosophers to understand and interpret Plato and Aristotle. It is not surprising that, when Husserl was trying to clear the ground for his later conception of phenomenology, he should feel obliged to proceed through a detailed comparison with Plato's dialectic. Husserl's lectures on First Philosophy take Plato in the ancient world and Descartes in the modern world as two steady landmarks in the philosophical search for foundations. It is primarily in reference to them that his own foundational method gets clarified. Similarly, at the crucial stage where he had to distinguish his own thought from Sartre's type of humanism, Martin Heidegger also had recourse to an interpretation of Plato. The thematic essay on Plato's Doctrine of Truth underlines the relationship between truth and the unconcealed or unhidden quality of philosophical thinking, while at the same time criticizing Plato and western metaphysics for binding truth too closely with ideas and the cultural needs of men. Yet Heidegger's own exegesis of the early Greeks and Plato offends many philosophers as being an outrageous reading of the texts. The significant point in such a reaction is that present philosophical purposes cannot justify just any use of the historical sources. Thus Heidegger's critics firmly imply that the wellbeing of present philosophizing is somehow bound up with a historically sound understanding of the enduring sources of thought.
The ideal of reading the Greek and Latin philosophers in order to gain nourishment for one's own speculations is reaffirmed by two contemporary philosophers, who hold otherwise quite diverse views: Karl Jaspers and Gilbert Ryle. The German existentialist prefaces his sympathetic analyses of Plato, Plotinus, and Augustine with this statement of historical attitude:
We hope to enter into the world of the great philosophers, to make ourselves at home in it, because it is in their company, the best there is, that we can attain to what we ourselves are capable of being. Admittance is open to all. The dwellers in that land are glad to answer provided that we know how to inquire. They show us what they were. They encourage us and make us humble. A great philosopher wants no disciples, but men who are themselves. With all our veneration, we can come closer to them only if we ourselves philosophize.
Thus as Jaspers sees it, there is a creative reciprocity between studying the classical sources in philosophy and developing one's own capacities as a thinker.
For his part, Ryle is much more acerbic about venerating the great philosophers or becoming humble in their presence, since he fears that this can generate the wrong kind of respect and thus can unfit us for critical detection of conceptual confusions. Yet his own scrupulous examination of Plato's Parmenides (with the adjacent dialogues, the Theaetetus and the Sophist) shows that there is a proper sort of respect based on a critical investigation of the problems, as well as a dimension of comparative understanding which develops only from following the historical trail of a problem from its Greek origins into its modern and even quite contemporary reconsiderations.
We cannot even state what was a philosopher's· puzzle, much less what was the direction or efficacy of his attempt to solve it, unless subsequent reflections have thrown a clearer light upon the matter than he was able to do. Whether a commentator has found such a light or only a will-of-the-wisp is always debatable and often very well worth debating. Thus I may be wrong in believing that there are affinities between Plato's enquiries in these dialogues and Hume's and Kant's account of assertions of existence, Kant's account of forms of judgement and categories, Russell's doctrine of propositional functions and theory of types, and, perhaps, more than any other, nearly the whole of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I may be wrong in construing these dialogues as, so to speak, forecasting most of the logical embarrassments into which the infinitely courageous and pertinacious Meinong was to fall. But at least my error, if it is one, does not imply that Plato's puzzles were so factitious or ephemeral that no other serious philosopher has ever experienced any perplexity about them.
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Son of Kate O'Mara is found dead in her garage: 48-year-old lived at home with the Dynasty star
- Dickon Young, 48, found in garage of home he shared with famous mother
- Neighbour discovered his body on New Year's Eve in Warwickshire house
- Mr Young said to have suffered mental health problems following car crash
- He had lived with his mother in village of Long Marston for around a year
The middle-aged son of actress Kate O'Mara was found dead in a garage on New Year's Eve, it emerged last night.
Dickon Young, 48, was discovered by a neighbour at around 3.40pm in the village where the former set designer lived with his mother, now 73.
Last night, residents in Long Marston, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, told how he had suffered mental health problems following a car crash some years ago.
Together: Dickon Young, 48, pictured beside his mother actress Kate O'Mara. Mr Young was found dead in the house he shared with his mother in Long Marston, Warwickshire on New Year's Eve
Dickon Young was found dead in a garage near his home (pictured) by a neighbour on New Year's Day
The mother and son had lived in the village – famous for its airfield which plays host to summer music festivals – for around a year.
It is understood a next-door neighbour discovered Dickon's body on Monday afternoon, although it remained unclear last night who owned the garage where he was found.
David Marcuse, a warden at the village's St James Church, said: 'I don't think Dickon was very well.
Smiling: Kate O'Mara and son Dickon Young are thought to have lived together in the village for around a year. Mr Young was reported to have suffered mental health problems following a car crash
'He had a car accident some years ago and his mind was never the same, as I understand it. I think he suffered from periods of depression.
'Physically he seemed fine. He didn't leave the house very often, but I used to see him occasionally walking through the village.
'It is a tragic situation all round and everybody's thoughts will be with the family.'
One villager, who did not want to be named, said: 'Kate has not been well herself recently but I am told that she is, quite understandably, beyond distraught by Dickon's death.
'Police were called and he was found with a rope around his neck. The family are considering it a suicide.
'They [Kate and Dickon] were very close and she doted on him, especially since he suffered what appeared to be something of a mental breakdown in recent years.
'Despite only living here a relatively short time, Kate has become a genuinely well-liked member of the community and we are all deeply saddened by her loss.'
David Marcuse, a warden at the village's St James Church, said: 'I don't think Dickon was very well.
'He had a car accident some years ago and his mind was never the same, as I understand it.
'I think he suffered from periods of depression.
'Physically he seemed fine. He didn't leave the house very often, but I used to see him occasionally walking through the village.
'It is a tragic situation all round and everybody's thoughts will be with the family.'
Twice-divorced Miss O'Mara moved to the property with her son around a year ago.
She remains best known for her role as Caress Morell, the scheming sister of Joan Collins' Alexis Colby in Dynasty, but has also starred in a number of hit TV shows including Doctor Who, Howards' Way and Absolutely Fabulous, as well as establishing her own theatre company.
Last spring, she starred in the Agatha Christie Theatre Company's production of Murder on the Nile at the Malvern Theatre in Worcestershire.
In the mid-1980s, at the age of 22 while working in a London theatre, Dickon enjoyed a well-publicised affair with actress Jenny Agutter, who was ten years his senior.
Difficult: Last night a woman answering the door at the actress's cottage on the edge of Long Marston said of the tragedy: 'It is a difficult time for us.' Miss O'Mara remains best known for her role as Caress Morell in Dynasty
He had worked as a stage manager, rigger and carpenter at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and ran his own set-building company in Los Angeles, specialising in suspended scenery, before settling up his own company building treehouses in the mid-1990s.
By 2002, Dickon was once more involved in the theatre, working as a set designer on his mother's company's production of The Rivals at Birmingham's Alexandra Theatre. The production featured Miss O'Mara in a supporting role.
Dickon, whose father is the actor Jeremy Young, is not thought to have been working recently.
Following their divorce, Miss O'Mara gave birth to another son, but when his father left, she made the agonising decision to have the child adopted. The boy, Chris Linde, contacted her decades later but the pair did not get on.
He later branded Miss O'Mara an 'uncaring mother' in a series of bitter attacks in the Press.
Miss O'Mara married second husband, Richard Willis, in 1993. They divorced three years later.
Last night a woman answering the door at the actress's cottage on the edge of Long Marston said of the tragedy: 'It is a difficult time for us', but declined to comment further.
A Warwickshire police spokesman said the death was not being treated as suspicious.
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Pierre Boulez est sans nul doute l'un des plus grands chefs pour diriger la musique française et celle de Debussy en particulier. Sa parfaite connaissance des partitions ainsi que son acharnement à régler les moindres détails de l'interprétation font de son interprétation un régal de raffinement. La direction de Boulez est à la fois souple et rigide. Il ne cède rien à ses musiciens et entraîne l'orchestre dans un tourbillon de couleurs et de rythmes animé par un souffle passionné. Le tout est d'une précision diabolique ! --Marc Aigneaux
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On the other hand, discipline can go overboard and turn into a rigid mechanical performance, and nobody needs to hear an orchestra going through the motions, hitting every note perfectly, but rendering a performance bereft of any passion whatsoever. The trick is to walk the line perfectly between being disciplined and being mechanical, and Boulez has indeed pulled this off.
It is just wonderful to hear a smoothly modulated brass section playing its part with the right level of nuance, and a woodwind section dealing with Debussy's challenging rhythms with ease and comfort. The string section also play their parts perfectly.
I also must tip my hat to Franklin Cohen for his performance in as fine a Rhapsodie as I have ever heard.
Overall, this is an endlessly pleasing Debussy disc. The casual listener can simply enjoy Debussy's music on its own merits, while the more serious listener can enjoy diving into the intricacies of Debussy's score, appreciating the splendid job that Boulez & the Cleveland Orchestra has done.
But if you are looking for a version in clear, modern sound, this might be the one. Boulez is just about perfect for this music, with his emphasis on clarity, coupled with a somewhat unsentimental approach.
Deutsche Grammophon's recording is outstanding. Even in the loudest passages of "La Mer" for example, every instrumental strand can still be heard.
The Cleveland Orchestra is, well, the Cleveland Orchestra - an incomparable group that is worth sampling any time, in any repertoire. Their playing here appears so effortless - which of course it isn't - and that illusion only heightens the mood created by the relaxed brilliance of Debussy's writing.
A great recording, for fans of Boulez, the orchestra, and of course these magnificent, glittering Debussy scores.
Boulez has just the right gentle touch in his conducting to make the Nocturnes soothingly lyric without being too mellow.
The premiere Rhapsodie is a wonderful intrigue. Franklin Cohen plays the clarinet lead of this piece with style.
The Jeux is delightfully entertaining. I especially like the Cleveland brass on this piece. Weaving in and out of the background of the strings, it paints some great musical images.
La Mer is for me the high point of the disc. Its representation of the power of the sea is stunning. Tossed to and fro between tunes, never clinging to one too long, it becomes a masterpiece in the able hands of Boulez.
At 70.58, there is not an uninteresting moment on this recording. Boulez shows here why he is the master of this repertoire. I recommend this disc.
This is definitely a "good" Debussy album, but there are a few points that keep it from being "great." First, in "Nocturnes: Fetes" the trumpet fanfares are a little sloppy. The slower sections of Nocturnes are exceptionally beautiful though. The strings and chorus in Sirenes are heavenly.
In Jeux, I also find the brass slightly lazy. Other than that, It is a wonderful performance.
As for La Mer, I found the climax of "De l'aube a midi sur la mer" unexciting. I thought the tempo was a little slow, the percussion including the tympani and gong had not enough impact, and the players seemed to be holding back. Also, in the final moments of the peice, I find a lot of inner detail missing which is odd considering that Pierre Boulez is known for bringing out inner detail. For a better recording of "La Mer," I recommend the recording by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony.
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no it doesnt have near the clarity that boulezs original with the ny philharmonic has, but he didnt try to repeat himself and so deserves credit fort he effort. Read morePublished on Nov. 3 2003
This is wort its price because of this version of La Mer. Boulez as a native frenchman understands this better than most and sound is amazing.Published on April 9 2002
Ravishingly beautiful and nearly technically flawless ... once you have this you can forget any other recordings of these works. Read morePublished on June 22 2001
The Cleveland Orchestra is one of the best in the world and they play the music on this disc wonderfully. Pierre Boulez conducts with great style and sense of the French music. Read morePublished on June 12 2001 by a clarinetist
Boulez' capacity to elicit the inner workings of a score can be stupendous at times. With this particular disc, this skill becomes the problem. Read morePublished on Jan. 28 2001 by Timothy Mikolay
Salonen too cool, Martinon too impressionistic; I think Boulez is in between and got exactly right.Published on Oct. 25 2000
Pierre Boulez and the Cleveland Orchestra were just great! The orchestra and the chorus sounded good! As a French conductor, (Debussy's French too) Boulez is excellent! Read morePublished on June 29 2000 by Shota


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"Brad is not only a Hall of Famer as a player; he's a Hall of Famer as a guy."
—Don Cherry, from the foreword
For a hockey-mad kid from the suburbs of Toronto, Brad Park didn't do too badly.
Playing the game every chance he got, often with his brother or under the watchful eye of his coach father, Brad quickly found the work ethic and talent that would take him far. Rising through the ranks of junior hockey with the Toronto Marlies and Buffalo Bisons, it wasn't long before he was proving himself a key member of the New York Rangers and later the Boston Bruins. But Brad's story is about more than just his time on the ice. It's about life in the NHL, his experiences off the ice, of building teams and what it takes to build a career out of the sport you love. It's about his family, his friendships and the hard work and dedication it takes to balance everything.
Through the highs of playoff rounds and the '72 Summit Series to his trying times with the Detroit Red Wings and the lows of knee surgeries that could have ended his career prematurely, Thom Sears and Brad Park take you on a guided tour deep into the heart of one of the longest and most distinguished careers ever seen in the NHL. Highlights and interviews from other notable stars such as Don Cherry, Walter Tkaczuk, Gerry Cheevers, Jean Ratelle, Rod Gilbert and a host of others, provide additional color, balance and insight.
Sometimes joyous, sometimes bittersweet, Straight Shooter is the captivating, authorized and candid biography of a hockey legend.
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Thom Sears was born in Cambridge, Ontario. He is a volunteer at the Hockey Hall of Fame and proud member of SIHR (Society for International Hockey Research). Growing up, Thom lived and breathed the game of hockey. He wrote his first hockey book at the age of 12; a simple book on Wayne Gretzky, complete with illustrations and cut up O-Pee-Chee and Topps hockey cards, that if left intact would be worth a small fortune today. Presently, Thom works as a professional actor in Toronto where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
For 17 NHL seasons Toronto-born Brad Park patrolled the blue line for the New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings, bringing intelligence, skill, will and a quick wit to the game. He was a perennial All-Star who, in 1988, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Park currently lives in the Boston area, and is still a fixture at Bruins and Rangers alumni events.
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Also, some gems were getting to know how as a young 24-year-old defenseman reacted to all the craziness of the '72 Summit Series as well as learning more about those late '70s to early '90s Boston Bruins teams. It was also interesting to note how Park was one of the early voices to question Alan Eagleson's involvement in the slush funds the Canada Cups became (as well as all the other scams the guy pulled as NHLPA head).
Plus if you thought the Toronto Maple Leafs were a messed-up organization back in the Harold Ballard era, wait till you read about Park's trip (during his junior Marlies' days when the Laffs owned the junior team in Toronto) to the emergency ward and subsequent trip to see the Leafs' team doctor (who it turned out was a gynecologist!).
As a big time Habs fan like the chapter on "hate the Habs". Playoffs those years were some of best moments of my youth. Like Park said in the book, Habs had 11 hall of famers, Bruins had 3. I think Boston was able to push Montreal to brink on elimination with togetherness and hard work. I was real glad of trade in '75, to the Bruins. Rangers at that time was hated in Montreal. They beat us out of playoffs in '72 and '74. We knew once the trade was made Rangers would never be the same and opened it up more for Habs.
Park mentions writing an early book with Stan Fischler also. Around the early '70s. I would like to find a copy as it most likely is a good read.


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March 10, 20165:26 pm 2 Comments
You may have read, and enjoyed, last week's post about going high to First Year English. This week, one of our writers went to First Year English on a different kind of high: pill form. Less smoke, and legal. Bwog would like to note that the writer has a Xanax prescription, and took the medicine as directed for test anxiety.
It's two hours before my astronomy exam, and in anxious anticipation/thoughtful preparation, I pop a Xan. I figure this will give me the perfect mixture of anxiety and tranquility to be able calculate the distances to stars, but, coincidentally, the pill's peak mellowing effects will happen in First Year English, my class right before Astronomy.
I walk out of the fourth floor Barnard Hall bathroom and into my English class, humming along to Mitski's "I Don't Smoke" (that's right, readers—smoking is bad!). I'm hyped to discuss Descartes' Discourses and Meditations, having already read the text for my philosophy course last semester.
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December 05, 20155:06 pm 0 Comments
Last night in Pupin, the Astronomy Department opened its doors to both the Columbia community and the public for its regular Stargazing and Lecture series event. Bwog has sent writers to cover the last few starry Friday night programs, and this week staffer and Friday Night Lights fan Amara Banks was lucky enough to check it out.
Although Friday nights are usually reserved for EC, 1020 and later Koronets, it should be noted that Pupin, too, could be a place to spend your wild nights. Walking into a lecture room with a projector displaying the words "How to Feed and Care for Your Black Hole" confirmed this. Last night around a hundred people, of varying ages, occupied every seat in the Pupin physics classroom, eagerly eyeing a projector.
Aleksey Generozov, currently a grad student at Columbia, led the lecture. He had an adorably nerdy demeanor, complete with classic glasses and a sometimes uncomfortable laugh. However, his brilliance shined through.
The lesson for the night was on black holes–a difficult concept to truly understand without deep astronomical background knowledge. Generozov was able to break down the concepts and explain them so simply that both the five-year-old in front of me and the 50-year-old behind me could confidently reiterate the information. In fact, when Generozov asked the audience to what size the earth needed to be compressed in order to become a black hole, both of their hands shot up. The little girl answered, "to the size of a peanut," earning laughs, while the elderly man's more scientific answer brought impressed brow raises. The correct answer was simply "by a few millimeters."
Generozov's PowerPoint was refreshingly basic, its slides comprised of solid black backgrounds with single graphics. On his slide about Tidal Disruption Events, he included the Top Dawg Entertainment XXL magazine cover, because the two share an identical acronym: TDE. This slide merited laughs, as Generozov's dad pun reminded the audience that they weren't in a 4000 level class preparing for finals, but instead enjoying the fruits of the Astronomy Department's Friday-night generosity.
Although the night was about science, my favorite aspect of the event was the diversity of the audience. People of completely different races, ages, and interests had all come together to learn more about a puzzling space phenomenon. As I mentioned, the five- and 50-year olds in front of and behind me were two people in opposite stages of their lives, but to my left and right were two people in nearly identical stages: CU students. This was about their only similarity. The eyes to my left were on his Instagram profile more than they were on the projector, and the ones to my right were closed the majority of the time while he passionately "hmmm"ed throughout the lecture.
At the lecture's conclusion, a woman from the Astronomy department announced the locations of the post-lecture stargazing and the 3D wall. Find more information about the astronomy department's next outreach event, on December 18th.
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March 11, 201511:05 am 5 Comments
Midterms got you going to the bathroom out of anxiety? We're continuing our series on bathrooms around campus with our third installment, and this time, we're taking you to the second floor of Pupin (for when you're SEAS-ed with cramps and gas).
Privacy (is this a poop or pee bathroom?)
The most private bathroom you could ever hope for. You could have the most explosive, sonorous diarrhea and not even feel a speck of shame. You feel like you're in another dimension, free from the judgments of other bathroom-goers.
The View (windows? scribbles on the walls?)
Not one of its highlights. There's a window that allows some soothing natural light, but you can't really see much out of it.
Convenience (is it easy to find, or out of your way?)
It's in Pupin on the second floor, so not super convenient. It's worth the trek, though, if you fear offending/desecrating any other bathrooms on campus.
Traffic (are there a lot of people using it?)
Nope. It looks like a closet from the outside so most people do not even know it exists. Just casually walk in as if you need a mop or a lightbulb and no one will be the wiser to the grumbling below.
It's super clean and looks like a spaceship, so that's cool.
Overall ranking (1-5 stars)
5 stars. A paragon of pooping perfection.
February 13, 20145:03 pm 14 Comments
Valentine's Day approacheth! Today's Columbians looking for love are Justin Birmingham, Brittany Portman, and Pupin. If you want to take any one of these awesome humans/ buildings on a date, email us and we'll set it up (and give you ten whole dollars to take 'em out). But sorry guys, we're just toooooo popular — we've received enough submissions, so we won't be accepting any new personals after this point.
Name, Year, School, Major: Justin Birmingham, SEAS '15, Mechanical Engineering, Music Minor
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Hometown: Clinton, NJ, AKA Farmers and Subdevelopments
Your nightmare date in seven words or fewer: Waiting in line for some bougie nightclub
What redeems you as a human being? I can sing, I'm süper öutdoörsy, and I fix things for the greater good
Library room of choice: 69+69+69+the 2 of us = 209 ;)
Beverage of choice: Salsa? No, Sriracha
Guilty Pleasure Song: John Mayer may be an asshole but I think he's a great musician
Where can you usually be found on a Saturday night? Obviously Greenborough, that place rules
Historical Hottie: Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day
November 08, 201112:00 pm 19 Comments
Behold the marriage of modernism and nature! Or at least something green. In this urban jungle we'll take what we can get.
The hardscrabble, weeds, and dead shrubs that littered the raised-plaza-thing outside NoCo have blossomed into
perfectly manicured grass sod. Looks like a great place for the kids in the brochures to lay out and read books. No red flags here. Yet.
March 24, 20114:00 pm 7 Comments
"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
– Rene Magritte
February 16, 20111:30 pm 10 Comments
Deep in the bowels of Pupin, mathematical notation holds Physics students tight in its rational grip. Though confined to windowless sun-deprived cells, these scientists secretly engage in renegade artistic expression. Note the effervescent nature of the flowers and the anthropomorphic eggplant, so fleetingly sketched in chalk.
July 16, 20101:56 pm 18 Comments
It's summer, and it's that magical time of year when things change and you come back next year only to think, "Hey, when did this happen?" Well, now is when!
Lerner Renovation: First and foremost, the plans and models we saw back in May for a new Lerner 4th Floor, home to the new Center for Student Advising, are finally beginning to materialize in real life. Prefrosh about to take Gateway next year, take note… this is how it's done. The changes to Lerner have also caused the Office of Multicultural Affairs to relocate to Lerner 5.
Pupin Scaffolding: Mysterious scaffolding has shown up on Pupin; we're assuming it's for some sort of routine cleaning, but if you have a better idea of what's going on, be sure to let us know in the comments.
"Premium Rush" Filming: This one stars our very own Alma Mater, folks! Well, sorta. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in this film about "a bike messenger [who] picks up a package at Columbia University and subsequently catches the attention of a dirty cop." Close enough, Alma! A tipster informed us that they are filming today at 116th and Morningside–could they possibly encroach on campus grounds soon? Let us know if you see/hear anything!
Starbucks Gets Fancier: We've been tipped that the Starbucks on 114th is now shinier and all-around snazzier. Now the environment you sit in can send just as bold of a message as that frap in your hand. If you have any pictures of these renovations, please send them along to firstname.lastname@example.com.
We Getting Slang Soon: Seeing as these aren't exactly terms we hear on campus on a daily basis, there are some big changes coming to our lexicon. Huffington Posts documents a bunch of college slang that we can only assume every other place of higher education in America uses. Remember incoming shmen, don't skip your gut classes and blitz us with tips!
Lerner photos by HEH, Pupin photo by Daniel Sims
November 16, 20092:30 pm 13 Comments
Bwog reader and Punny Physicist Steve Ma sent in this sign found in Pupin:
Somewhere, in his non-relativistic afterlife, Newton is smiling.
Tags: newton would be proud, physics, puns, pupin
September 23, 20099:00 am 2 Comments
The motorcade hanging around college walk, the red carpet paparazzi frenzy outside Low – those sly dogs at the World Leaders Forum must have booked another celeb. Bwog contributor Kate Hughes snuck past the cameras last night to hear what Serbian President Boris Tadic had to say.
Serbia and Columbia go way, way back. Turns out, Pupin was named after a Serbian physicist who taught at Columbia. Everyone's been bosom buddies since. And last night, they got together to talk about the global economic crisis, secession, and genocide. Not cheery topics, sure, but a brief history lesson from President (formerly Professor) Tadic convinced us we must. Tadic began his serious remarks by comparing the potential for world-wide change that the economic crisis has created to the times of great change that followed major world events in 1945 and 1989. The coming changes in our world economic and political systems could rival those following the end of World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The question to ask, says Tadic, is not only what changes will occur but how they will occur. Tadic predicts a shift in the style of international relations, but worries aloud whether the transition might be less than smooth. It could get rough, apparently: if what Tadic calls the "geopolitical tectonic plates" happen to clash, that would not be good. Tadic strongly favors all attempts to solve international problems diplomatically, with democratic principles as a basis for all negotiation (Read: he quoted Woodrow Wilson.) (more…)
Tags: lecturehop, pupin, serbia
May 11, 20095:26 pm 36 Comments
Whilst you sit in Butler wishing for a perfect storm to disrupt your finals, take comfort in the fact that such miracles can occur.
This morning, the final exam for Physics V1202 (the second required semester of non-engineering general physics) was interrupted by a real live fire alarm in Pupin.
Or was it? A prankster was responsible, reports the FDNY, and security is busy examining grainy camera footage trying to find the culprit. According to our tipster, the plaza outside Pupin turned into a "circus of cheating," so upon reentrance, the proctors passed out a "backup midterm" to be completed in the remaining time.
Physics department chair Andrew Millis informed the students that due to the "unusual circumstances," the final would be weighted less heavily in the final course grades.
It all goes to show that studying doesn't pay. Full email after the jump.
October 13, 200811:20 am 3 Comments
Hans Hyttinen has just sent us his dispatch from the frontline. Apparently there was confusion as to whether it was a drill or not, as the alarm stopped sounding after a few rings. At this very moment, "a mix of pleased and peeved physics students are standing around the lesser-known sundial."
Tags: fire alarms, pupin
October 04, 20089:40 am 7 Comments
Here are some more activities to keep Mom and Dad busy because Bwog loves you and your parents and because Bwog has secret tour guide aspirations….
Columbia has its own mini-museum in Schermerhorn! Who knew? The Wallach Gallery's classy digs will undoubtedly impress your parents. Maybe you'll even impress them with your Art Hum skills. Except the gallery is currently exhibiting Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, which doesn't fall into the masterpieces of Western Art category. But it's free and that's always a crowd pleaser.
Inwood Park
If you're going to the Baker Field for the football game, be sure to pass through Inwood Park on your way back. Located just beyond the stadium, Inwood Park is a lovely copse-filled plot of land on the very tip of Manhattan island. The northern edge of the park offers views of both the Hudson and Harlem Rivers and makes a great place for a picnic. For additional fun, try to spot the Columbia boathouse and the big 'C' rock.
Tags: art history, baker field, city, football, history, homecoming, manhattanville, parents, pupin, science, wallach gallery
December 13, 20072:05 pm 8 Comments
A Bwog daily editor reports on a distressing development in the world of tunneling:
A year ago, your correspondent made a bid for tunneling immortality. With sharpie in hand, I went in search of the Columbia tunnel system's holy grail–a Manhattan Project-era cyclotron rumored to be somewhere in the upper campus tunnel system.
It turns out that while the 'tron was in fact accessible from the tunnels (by way of an unnecessarily complicated although perhaps more adventurous process where you have to follow a tunnel under Mudd and hop over a wall…there was a great description on the old CU tunnels Wiki, which has mysteriously been taken offline), the thing itself resided on the first floor of Pupin–which is totally locked, unless you feel like going to the Pupin 1 men's room and negotiating the crawlspace between this heating duct and the ceiling.
So negotiate it I did. And what I found, readers, after squeezing myself between a couple of water conduits and dropping into a dank and long-abandoned janitor's closet, was a dungeon-like hallway of empty offices and industrial apparata–interesting, but hardly worth the Mission Impossible-like maneuver it took to get there. But an early-decade cleanup of rooms that had gone virtually untouched since the Manhattan project thankfully spared the building's main attraction (for tunnelers, at least): a single room containing a scattered mess of papers and scientific instruments, in the back left-hand corner of which sat a true piece of Columbia lore: the hulking, oblong outer shell of the cyclotron.
But this adventure is now all but impossible. On a recent visit to Pupin 1 (to use the men's room, actually), I found that a construction company had moved into the once-abandoned hallway; painting over the generations of tunneler grafitto, and occupying an empty office adjacent to the cyclotron room. It's hard to say if this is a short-term headquarters for the
new science building at 120th and Broadway, or if the first floor is to be completely gutted and converted into usable space. From the looks of it, Turner hasn't moved in on the cyclotron's territory, but that's likely not important to adventurous Columbians: with people now working in Pupin 1, it looks like the 'tron is off-limits, and that a uniquely Columbian tradition will have to be put on hold.
September 26, 20079:48 am 7 Comments
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Just nobody light a match…
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