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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: Who Knows?
http://121blog6.blogspot.com/2006/10/who-knows.html
Friday, October 27, 2006. There is an experience which goes like this: You are walking in a beautiful place, you are with friends and the whole thing is wonderful. If somone had arranged this for you you would want to thank them for the gift. However, in this case one can say confidently that no human 'gave' you anything - and yet one still wants to say 'thanks'. Classically, it is called one's 'fate'. Posted by Simon @ 1:52 pm. Tehran, London, or Vienna. The Game of Buying.
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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: Winning Bid
http://121blog6.blogspot.com/2006/07/winning-bid.html
Thursday, July 13, 2006. That was a great analysis of the situation I was in. So operating (nearly) blindly we phoned in our bid as did the other party in the game - and the seller was able to chose the one he liked best. Our strategy was, however, quite simple: calculate a bid price that was both within our means and was also in accord with our hopes for doing work on the house if we got it. We looked at the maximum we could pay in those conditions and made a guess about the 'opposition'. And we got it!
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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: 121 Blog COMPLETED
http://121blog6.blogspot.com/2007/03/121-blog-completed.html
Tuesday, March 06, 2007. 121 conversations normally run for a period of three months. This conversation has now reached its end date. If you would like to take part in a similar international exchange, just click here. Posted by Gia @ 11:37 am. Tehran, London, or Vienna. The Game of Buying.
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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: October 2006
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Friday, October 27, 2006. There is an experience which goes like this: You are walking in a beautiful place, you are with friends and the whole thing is wonderful. If somone had arranged this for you you would want to thank them for the gift. However, in this case one can say confidently that no human 'gave' you anything - and yet one still wants to say 'thanks'. Classically, it is called one's 'fate'. Posted by Simon @ 1:52 pm. Tehran, London, or Vienna.
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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: France
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Monday, August 14, 2006. I am sorry not to have replied for so long. I have been in France for my summer holiday. We went - the whole family - to a little village in the South, in an area called Provence. Beautiful and quiet. And hot. There was no internet or TV or radio in the house - so the only communication with the world was a newspaper from the UK every morning. I am glad the UN have reached some kind of agreement and fingers crossed now that it works. Posted by Simon @ 1:28 pm. The Game of Buying.
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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: August 2006
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Monday, August 14, 2006. I am sorry not to have replied for so long. I have been in France for my summer holiday. We went - the whole family - to a little village in the South, in an area called Provence. Beautiful and quiet. And hot. There was no internet or TV or radio in the house - so the only communication with the world was a newspaper from the UK every morning. I am glad the UN have reached some kind of agreement and fingers crossed now that it works. Posted by Simon @ 1:28 pm.
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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: Submit
http://121blog6.blogspot.com/2006/12/submit.html
Friday, December 01, 2006. Yesterday I submitted the manuscript for my new book. I say new, but I have been working on it since 1998 - so it feels old already. But it is finished and now it is out of my hands. One of my brothers is a photographer and he has done a very rough 'rough' for the image to go on the jacket of the book. The image is of six books. But instead of the cover of the spine showing it is the other side of the spine - just the paper. Posted by Simon @ 3:53 pm. Tehran, London, or Vienna.
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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: April 2006
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Thursday, April 27, 2006. Your mention of deserts reminded me of a strange text (brilliant too I think) by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant in which he is discussing the right of strangers to visit the society of others: a right to hospitality, or as Kant puts it, negatively, 'the right of a stranger not to be treated with hostility when he arrives on someone else's territory'. (I suddenly wonder: where are we now, here? Anyway, Kant says this:. There are three things that strike me here. Third, does...
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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: May 2006
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Friday, May 19, 2006. Good days and Bad. Posted by Simon @ 10:34 am. Monday, May 15, 2006. On the other hand: it was a brilliant football match, and it was great fun watching it with a big crowd of fellow philosophers. Their language lost some of its analytic rigour at various points. Are you still taking part in this project? I haven't heard from you in a while. Posted by Simon @ 10:34 am. Tuesday, May 09, 2006. Posted by Simon @ 10:54 am. Friday, May 05, 2006. Without major tests they judged that he ha...
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Iran UK Ebrahim/Simon Channel 4's 121: December 2006
http://121blog6.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html
Friday, December 01, 2006. Yesterday I submitted the manuscript for my new book. I say new, but I have been working on it since 1998 - so it feels old already. But it is finished and now it is out of my hands. One of my brothers is a photographer and he has done a very rough 'rough' for the image to go on the jacket of the book. The image is of six books. But instead of the cover of the spine showing it is the other side of the spine - just the paper. Posted by Simon @ 3:53 pm. Tehran, London, or Vienna.