note: items preceded by dashes are notes, items preceded by asterisks are todo items for yours truly

• perfection. word made real, god’s ‘visualization’ of creation before the servile act of creation.
• the estates: aristocracy, church, people, press, …
• artist as medium in middle ages. medium between god and, er…stuff.
• foucault’s ‘the order of things’ — good general history of phil.
• french phil: all translations bad — no sense of humor.
• look for double language editions of some french phil.
• GOT TO READ BORGES; borrow collection from Carl
• quote from borges in foucault’s order of things intro: “m. having just broken the water pitcher” – one classification of animals from a ‘chinese encyclopedia’
• Borges did a lot of fake quotes.
• the piano opened the door for the TV. TV required a clock — universal time.
• investigate Shostakovich/Vertov link