Ohio Countryside / Richard Yost Photographer & John Fraim Editor Hegel’s Familiar & McLuhan’s Environment John Fraim Miles Davis / In a Silent Way _____________________________________ In 2021, an important article appeared in the Hegel Bulletin titled “Hegel’s Concept of the Familiar: Toward a Philosophical Study.” The author was Hammam Aldouri, at the time, at Temple University. […]
Specters John Fraim & DeepSeek AI Assisted Retrospection 1770 – 1883 – 2025 River Man ______________________________________ Preface This is not a book. It is a retrospect in motion. In 1806, as Napoleon’s cannons shook Jena, Hegel finished The Phenomenology of Spirit—philosophy composed to the sound of history being unmade. He called this act “retrospect”: the owl of […]
Chris Rea, the musician behind the festive classic Driving Home for Christmas, has died at the age of 74. The singer died on Monday in hospital following a short illness, a spokesperson for his family said. A statement on behalf of his wife and two children read: “It is with immense sadness that we announce […]
Essence of the Sun _____________________________ It’s 22 degrees in Columbus, Ohio now. It’s times like this I think of my homestate of California. Particularly, a great time with my son Christopher. It’s been almost exactly two years ago that I enjoyed a bottle of Chalk Hill cab with my son Chris. I lived in Sonoma […]
Once upon a time, Trump was only fighting the deep state and the swamp. Now, he’s fighting Governors and Mayors of America’s leading states and cities. In addition to still fighting the DC bureaucracy and deep state and swamp. That was once upon a time. Now, it seems more and ore than Trump is fighting […]
Josh Allen Carries the Ball in 12/7/25 Win over the Bengals McCoy Tyner / Impressions __________________________________ John Fraim There are a few people I consider “great” in the world. In many ways, I think the distance traveled in life by people has to be factored into the idea of greatness. There is the great drama […]
The DeepSeek Project (continues …) Lullaby for Kara – Rick Sowash ____________________________________ John Fraim Further Explorations with DeepSeek It’s been a fascinating and important exploration for me. Into an ideology or popular philosophy of a time when philosophy was greatly popular within the German culture. From the last years of the Enlightenment in years of German idealism. […]
Long Form Probe to DeepSeek on Hegel Project (1:46 pm/12/3/25) John Fraim Horace Silver ____________________________________ Question to DeepSeek AI asking it to read two Word documents and update its own versions of into the most dramatic, entertaining and informative screenplay form. My note to DeepSeek: “I’ve updated the outline on Hegel I sent to you […]
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel, 1831, Oil on canvas, Berlin State Museums That Old Black Magic __________________________________ Hegel Via AI John Fraim I’ve undertaken a project exploring the work of Hegel and Marx using DeepSeek AI. Starting using DeepSeek around the beginning of 2025 when I heard about in the news. DeepSeek is a generative artificial intelligence […]
