About Me
My name is Jim Brown. I'm a Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Texas, specializing in Digital Literacies and Literatures. I maintain four blogs, and you can see all of my blog writings by viewing this RSS feed. The name of this blog is explained in this post from January 2008.
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Cool blog. This is my first comment. Graham Harman has an excellent book on tools called _Tool Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects_. Harman explains the relationship of the tool/broken tool structure in Heidegger's _Being and Time_. Very interesting and makes a strong connection not only between posthumanity and tools as you suggest but also between ontology and tools, emphasizing that the relationship between Dasein and the world is not grounded on language but grounded on technics, language being another tool!