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Name
Alexander Andrews
Joined
April 18th, 2007
About
Philosophical Theology MA Student, pretentious git, lover of all musical things that are experimental.
For those bored enough to be interested, the stuff I do lies broadly in the area of philosophy and theology. More specifically, the relation of recent continental philosophy to concepts of religion, the recent ‘radical orthodoxy’ project and the relation between philosophy/theology, religion/theology, and the interface of those with economics, environmentalism and politics. Philosophers and theologians I enjoy writing and reading about include (in no order) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alasdair Macintyre, Søren Kierkegaard, Heraclitus, François Laruelle, St. Augustine, Jean-François Lyotard, early phenomenology (Husserl, Fink, Heidegger) and others not included in this semi-teenage list making. I try to work on reconciling the differences between analytic and continental philosophy, largely through the work of Wittgenstein.
My non-academic interests include chopping up vegetables, particularly garlic, into excessively neat pieces.
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BBC Hire Ex-Microsoft Man
May 20th, 2007Alex: I posted a few weeks ago about my excitement concerning the BBC’s upcoming release of their Iplayer, which allow licsence fee payers the ability to download programmes up to a week after they are broadcast and keep them on their harddrives for almost a month. It now looks like the BBC have hired a former Microsoft executive to handle their digital rights management for this, the very software that allows users to retain the files for a period of time, but for no longer, and prevents the files being further shared across the P2P networks. Is this a good move for the Beeb? Or will it mean for the kind of consumer lock-in that many users have found detrimental in Microsoft’s Media Player and make the whole service somewhat of a washout?