Jamal

Interesting. What was that about?

https://i.postimg.cc/vmqXC4bJ/Screenshot-from-2025-09-26-13-15-03.png Unfortunately this pun relies on the British spelling of vice, which is vice.

Finally, some advice and support that actually works for me!

I found the Noto/Sakamoto album because I was having a look through the releases by the Ensemble Modern. Another one I liked: https://youtu.be/ia4YRSZ...

Right. Hegel can't have it both ways: if we want to do justice to the contingency and emergence, we can't also hold onto the a priori invariants. Sure...

https://open.spotify.com/album/1PokAFXFycM6g47eIQ9jIn?si=UcL2cSGeR0G11PvYE74u6A I'm 25 minutes in and the drums have just entered the battle. :up: I h...

I look forward to it. That said, I feel I got a pretty good feel for it in the end. I sometimes get the feeling with Adorno that he takes unnecessaril...

:party: I love the whole album.

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto. https://youtu.be/CcmdqbwTmTM

Thought so. :cool:

I can't tell if you feel left out or you're just flexing your superiority.

Thanks Javi :pray: Your words bring me comfort in the midst of my truculence.

All right. Assuming you are at no point finally persuaded by the cumulative effect of Adorno's analyses, we may have to revisit this quagmire in the f...

I have quit nicotine (vaping, mostly) three times over the past two years. Each time, I got through the intense withdrawal symptoms and came out the o...

Introduction: Dialectics and the Solidified I was confused by this section until I looked at the alternative translations of Festen: fixed. Empiricism...

This is something that Adorno put a lot of effort into, so basically yes, it’s meant to be hard. Adorno was deeply suspicious of the fixation on “clar...

Adorno and the other members of the Frankfurt School were deeply affected by Stalinism. It was one of the things that convinced them that Marxism had ...

It occurs to me that rather than induction or deduction, there are two alternative ways of characterizing his reasoning: abductive reasoning (inferenc...

Introduction: Against Relativism (continued) So far in this section Adorno has (a) dismissed the popular argument against relativism; (b) described th...

:up: That might be the perfect encapsulation of my own thoughts about it. It's objectively true that the cat was on the mat. This is not relative to a...

If one wanted to be sceptical of Adorno at this juncture, this would be a reasonable way to go about it. I think the social whole is, or potentially i...

I know the question wasn't directed at me but I feel like listing the ones I’ve liked so far: The one I've just finished is A Precarious Happiness: Ad...

Introduction: Against Relativism (continued) Next, Adorno moves from historicizing relativism to tackling it head-on. To stop at historicism would be ...

Introduction: Against Relativism Adorno says dialectics (including negative dialectics) is as much against relativism as it is against the absolute. H...

Interesting point. I think it might be a bit misleading, and this hinges on whether such a fixed point can act as, or is equivalent to, a ground, foun...

And the last passage of the Fragility section: Those whose thinking consists of unreflective banalities and is motivated by the concern for utility se...

Some more stuff about the Fragility of Truth section. Adorno makes a parallel here. There is the lack of general happiness and freedom in society, whi...

It occurs to me that a better musical analogy is jazz—unavailable to Adorno because he failed to appreciate jazz—which surely has the power to "contin...

Also in the Fragility of Truth section there's another interesting bit: He makes a distinction here between philosophy which is about the concrete, in...

I’ll have a go. Negative dialectics, which jettisons the first principles and reified concepts characteristic of most philosophy—which, in other words...

I missed this before. Yes, I think so. it’s an example of what I've been calling his utopianism, where he holds up the ideal of a non-domineering unde...

Thanks for the info. The Russian growers of cucumbers will be interested to learn that they're actually called American cucumbers, which they probably...

At the market yesterday: https://i.postimg.cc/282qLLWh/PXL-20250920-083737438-2.jpg Are marrows, zucchinis, and courgettes also squashes? :up:

"Holy cow" is common, but "bloody cow" is a Javi original :up:

Indeed. But in fact I've liked sports jackets since my twenties, when people said I was ridiculous for wearing one. I've been told that before. I shar...

Now you're making it look like I was fishing for compliments. Thanks anyway. Really I wanted to share a photo of myself bathed in Scottish sunshine, a...

https://i.postimg.cc/0NRpyrgT/IMG-20250825-WA0005.jpg Jamal and niece-of-Jamal in the Scottish sunshine a couple of weeks ago.

Great shot

Google Pixel by the way

Thank you. It was my Dad's. Fits me better.

I'll take it.

Thank you.

I'm in agreeance on all fronts.

Nothing to worry about. To be tickled by unique language is to be alive to the possibilities of human life.

I prefer brine.

Here is a recent photo of me in my mandress, my handbag in view but not on my person. https://i.postimg.cc/yx99FHzJ/PXL-20250901-141745024.jpg Critiqu...

3 pieces for solo clarinet, by Stravinsky. https://youtu.be/GDflqsxUKr8?si=BgkUFHWVXuLt_3MV

The thing that is carried by one who carries a manbag is a bag. The carrier of a manbag is a man. It's in the name. However, I call my bag a handbag, ...

Much appreciated :up:

Yes, it comes up in the Shoutbox every couple of years, usually just after squashes. We call them trolleys. But an online shopping cart is a basket.