(8:38 PM) | Adam Kotsko:

Notes on the new format

I'm impressed that it only took two hours to get the new format up and running. Two points of disappointment:

1. My economy web hosting package does not support the protocols necessary to include the two sub-blogs without the ugly scroll bars.
   
2. It turns out that the three-column method would be virtually unusable except on a monitor considerably larger than mine. The full Glas effect must remain deferred.

In any case, all current contributors to the Weblog, as well as the keepers of our esteemed sister sites, have been invited to the two sub-blogs. For those who are worried about an unwieldy system, have no fear, for the Blogger interface is well-suited to maintaining multiple blogs quickly and easily.

My current desire is to leave the "Common-Place Book" anonymous in terms of who posted, although of course the author should be identified, and also without a date. The quick links will have a timestamp, but will also be anonymous. If anyone objects to this system, I will add the names of those who post. The two sub-blogs have the added advantage of appearing on all the archive pages, in order to increase the randomness of the affair.

I hope everyone enjoys the new format and that everyone will feel free to participate immoderately in the two new sub-blogs.

UPDATE: The Benjamin text has been made available here by à Gauche.

If anyone has a copy of Jan Patochka's Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy that would be accessible to me within the next couple days, please let me know.

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