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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Schopenhauer was the first point of reconnection between our two search parties, the Abrahamic and Brahmanic

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Combining Western Know-How with Eastern Be-Who from One Cosmos by Gagdad Bob As the two world-historical streams -- the Abrahamic and Brah...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

Where Merleau-Ponty is quick to see a gap where the body would play or function, Derrida sees total play, that breaks with this functioning

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Le gai savoir philosophy, literature, art, and other things Saturday, February 2, 2008 Some remarks on Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus, and Derrida ...
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Burke proposes five broad categories to discuss motives: Scene, act, agent, agency, purpose

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Scene and Act from Larval Subjects by larvalsubjects Recently I have been rereading A Grammar of Motives by the rhetorician Kenneth Burke...
Friday, February 01, 2008

Agamben's own alignment with Benjaminian revolutionary messianism over Schmittian authoritarianism

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Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking About Home > Th...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Bloch warns us that relentless novelty can itself become wearyingly repetitious and static

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Whitehead’s God from The Pinocchio Theory by Steven Shaviro God, or the Body without Organs Steven Shaviro shaviro@shaviro.com Deleuze a...
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Delanda has no account of process. His ontology is excessively, and needlessly, static

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Whitehead’s God from The Pinocchio Theory by Steven Shaviro Delanda follows Deleuze in insisting that, although an entity is always involv...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Life-changing experiences as a result of their studies in humanities

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The Uses of the Humanities , Part Two Stanley Fish NYT January 13, 2008 Tags: humanities , readers , universities Note that what we’re tal...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

There is a poetic quality to some of Deleuze's thinking

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Against Bodies from Fido the Yak by Fido the Yak The Logic of Sense reads like a polemic against bodies. This is clearly evident in the w...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Restriction to grammar, delinked from ‘language'

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The Primacy of Grammar: Explorations in the Philosophy of Linguistics [Nearly done] Biolinguistics has been able to maintain some distance ...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Oedipal structure is always open to a much broader social, political, and historical milieu

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The Visible and the Invisible from Larval Subjects When Deleuze refers to a “sensibility of the senses”, he is not referring to sensations...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

“Emotions” are visceral before they are mental

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The Head Trip; consciousness and affect from The Pinocchio Theory by Steven Shaviro I’ve been reading Jeff Warren’s The Head Trip: Adventu...

Multiculturalism and moral relativism promote an idealization of tribal life

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Blind Faiths By AYAAN HIRSI ALI The New York Times: January 6, 2008 Enlightenment thinkers, preoccupied with both individual freedom and s...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Who is the real God?

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It's an Ideal World to Become Who You Are from One Cosmos by Gagdad Bob The problem is, how do you have a timeless and unalterable trut...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

The first division of Being and Time is actually wider in philosophical import than the second

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Patočka and Heidegger, or, towards Donner la mort Jan Patočka's interpretation of some of the basic concepts within Being and Time in ...

Because clarity isn’t enough

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The craft of difficult writing There are reasons, if you can call them that, why a writer would want to play games with the reader’s mind. S...
Friday, December 28, 2007

The sheer volume of these conferences allowing little genuine dialogue to take place

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Divergent Series from Larval Subjects Of late, I confess, I’ve found myself exhausted with blogging or, more generally, communication. On ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

A philosophical summation of the Nature of God as the Supreme Self

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Enlightenment of the Whole Body Full Index of Articles Chapter 1 The Divine Person The Free Standing Man Top 1. The Bhagavad Gita (literal...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Theories are always applied and interpreted through our personal and cultural filters

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Can theory override intuition? from Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen Robin Hanson writes : For good policy advice, what is the best weig...