Jamal

:-} Uh oh.

One of the things I like about Curtis's documentaries is the way he reveals the recklessness and incompetence of power, but with the thrilling style o...

I watched it. Pretty bleak.

You look really pretentious on that roof.

Ah, sorry, I didn't see the cigarette. Yep, pretty good.

Hand on the chin, cardigan, and deeply penetrating gaze--but no pipe. Try harder.

http://review.ucsc.edu/winter.97/chalmers.p13.GIF David Chalmers

Foucault doesn't appear to be posing. To me it looks like he's been caught at the weekend on his way to the Castro, but doesn't mind stopping for a ph...

a couple of hounds by his side would have completed it nicely.

The Ugly Christmas Sweater: From ironic nostalgia to festive simulation

Baudrillard ought to be condemned for that sweater, though.

Ah, I see. So this is more about facial expressions and poses? Well I'm still confused, because Foucault looks utterly unpretentious in the photo you ...

In that photo, Ortega y Gasset is wearing a Panama hat and holding a cigarette holder. I'm confused.

I'll take your word for it.

:D

I meant more recent philosophers, contemporary with the French intellectuals whose style does not appeal to you. I think what's happened is that smugn...

To me, that's his saving grace.

Odd that you think Camus looks "douchey" in that photo, because to me he looks pretty cool. I wonder, could you post a picture of a philosopher who do...

But it's not true that it's not allowed on this forum. I do prefer, however, that it is not allowed to derail serious discussions. It's about context.

Think of me and the mods like editors responsible for maintaining the quality of a prestigious publication. We make subjective appraisals, of course, ...

Just like the old forum, we have standards of quality. I deleted the posts because I judged them to be of low quality. Anyway, yes, let's all be frien...

Fair point, Hanover. I was intemperate. But still, we're not discussing philosophy here.

It was me. It was a serious discussion, so you don't get to twat on about how much you think French intellectuals look like "douches" and how much it ...

His argument did not carry the day, but it seemed quite reasonable, or at least far from foolish--and eminently conservative: On foxhunting.

In the present day, Roger Scruton.

To my knowledge, Darwin actually embraced the term "survival of the fittest". And "more adaptable to the specific environment" is what it means.

I managed to escape the impossible housing market in Edinburgh and go house-sitting, which is not so much a rejection of the property market as a kind...

Think of the pirates' accent in movies: Arrr! Why pirates must speak with a West Country accent, I'm not sure.

Not in Scotland or South West England.

Speaking of PF members who haven't properly made it over here, I don't get why @"busy" (busycuttingcrap) hasn't joined in, despite actually joining la...

Very even-handed. (Y)

I took him to be referring to himself among others, you pedantic lot.

I just want to echo Baden's and Sapientia's comments and say that I can't see anything objectionable in Un's comment. And I don't recognize this descr...

Welcome @"Umbra", better late than never. ;)

Looks good. Kinda hot for a hike mind you. Lovely place anyway. I'll wave back from wherever I am on my bike trip to Bordeaux via the Canal Latéral de...

Hike up Vesuvius while you're there.

That's another one ticked off the bucket list.

Not true. Conditions for the slaves in the Roman mines were famously brutal.

Agreed, but I think there's a big difference between, on the one hand, the defence of a group by standing up for the rights of its members to be treat...

I agree with a lot of that Erik. I think it's worse than this. I think these progressives are guilty of a kind of racism or racialism of their own, be...

Surely it's because his philosophical work concerns things you think are important that you dislike him so much, no?

Tom Slater's take on it in Spiked is quite interesting: Source Their rightism was once an ideology of the ruling class, but now it is just another ide...

Frank Zappa, Patrick O'Hearn and Terry Bozzio, just jamming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD1RSRxfgIU

I moved this one to the Lounge so maybe you'll be able to carry on your conspiracy nuttiness here without fear of deletion. But of course, I cannot sp...

Marx on levelling down:

I like some twelve-tone music, such as Berio and Boulez. The claim that it's not music is not one I take seriously. However, I think its important inf...

The fool!

Scrutiny here I guess would consist of looking at the practice and nature of atonal music to see if it has anything to do with that of music as such. ...

This is probably irrelevant to the discussion, but what you say here is not true, unless you want to say that atonal music and unpitched percussion mu...

I agree. Forcing women to dress a particular way is no way to uphold the principle that nobody should force women to dress a particular way. Ridiculou...