OOOntology sans the sacred

[(title unknown) from enowning

Cheston Knapp on his story “A Minor Momentousness in the History of Love”

But Heidegger’s not the Camus of The Stranger. He knows das Man is necessary and inescapable and he defines it as part of Dasein’s [existence’s] “positive construction.”]

[Stuart Kauffman by larvalsubjects

I picked up Stuart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacred at the bookstore today before heading off to see Splice. …

What I find less appealing in Kauffman’s book (and his other works) is his project of “reinventing the sacred”. On the one hand, I don’t see anything particularly sacred or divine in demonstrating that the universe is creative.]

[Creativity existed before the universe emerged from it. …Like a cosmic Houdini it breaks free, transcends its constraints, revels in a frenzy of creative imagination, regains consciousness, revels in a frenzy of creative speculation, wondering what it all means.
  Reviewed by U. Mohrhoff ANTIMATTERS 2 (3) 2008, June 18, 2010 at 8:10 am]

“Himself the play, Himself the player, Himself the playground" settles it all. [TNM]