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Jacques Derrida
On October 11, 1999, renowned philosopher Jacques Derrida, Professor of Philosophy, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, visited the University at Albany and presented a lecture on "The Future of the Profession or the Unconditional University." Derrida's visit was sponsored by the Department of English and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Derrida is a central figure in the development of post-modernist thinking.Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time - Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
We spent the day yesterday in the pits with the teams participating in the 2012 Silicon Valley Regional FIRST Competition and brought back a whole heap of pictures . Thursday is fix, check and test day at the regional competitions. Each robot has been sealed up since the end of the build season and the teams bring them out and get them certified for competition and run them through practice matches. The pits were extremely busy for most of the day, getting the robots ready for their practice rounds and repairing them afterwards. Team Gatorbotics was one of several local all girls teams.
Interview with Sun Ra, November 2, 1988
Sun Ra: -- made all this: some Impossibility without a name. That's what the world is controlled by: an Impossibility. It's controlled by someone they call "God" who never had a beginning and naturally had no end. And in a sense He doesn't exist, because of the standards of reality, because everybody knows something can't just happen -- but if there is a God, that's what happened; just happened to be, and without ever having not been -- they got to face that. So you go over into what you might call a myth.