Jamal

https://i.postimg.cc/wvjrM5cB/PXL-20250417-082635204.jpg The snow has all gone, meaning I can ride around the flood plain of the Kostroma river on my ...

I'm now thinking of all this is in terms of a link between the dispositional dimension of arrogance vs. humility and the epistemological dimension of ...

I realize now that this is pretty much where I unconsciously wanted to go with the discussion, and merely used my own story to look at it --- but the ...

Sure, but this angle is a new one. Putting it differently, I'm more interested in Adorno than I am in myself. So, I'm reading Adorno via my perennial ...

Yeah but I like to think this is a different angle. I'm telling myself that.

That's a great-looking quiche.

:up: And you and I both know that one is true: there is meaning in food.

I used to scoff at this idea, thinking it reactionary, not to mention facile and simplistic. It's galling to find myself now gravitating towards it. A...

It's a great quote, and I have it at the back of my mind in all this. But it's such a familiar thought that it's become a cliché. Adorno has a way of ...

This is a great point. I haven't thought about it like that. Maybe it's an argument not only to teach ethics early on, but to teach political philosop...

:cool: :up: Yes, and I guess there's always a risk that my kind of reflections are effectively conservative.

Thank you, glad you liked it :smile: Having for years appealed to the mismatch between ideals and reality in an effort to protect the ideals, I think ...

That's a deep can of worms. If I wanted to get into it I'd want to reference Dialectic of Enlightenment, J.G. Ballard's novel Crash (sceptical towards...

Thank you Top Clark. Yeah it's great. I'm sure I could make it relevant.

:cool: Well, since the popular ideal of reading is smooth uninterrupted flow, and I'd heard people say the endnotes were a disruption of that flow, I ...

Looking at this again and forgetting about myself for the moment, it's interesting to flesh out the context. It was around the time of the First World...

Interesting. So you're probably around ten or fifteen years younger than me. For me, my radicalization was curiously out of time, disconnected from th...

Very cool TC. I tried to get a "buddy read" going with my brother but he postponed it for so long I couldn't wait any longer and read it myself (One H...

Yes, I'm not anti-liberal simpliciter. I'm an immanent liberal-sceptic.

Yes, I've noticed, but isn't it just that in North America liberalism commonly, in popular discourse, refers to social/social justice liberalism, desc...

I sometimes feel I ought to read that, but tennis and drug addiction have always been turn offs for me.

Adorno, Hegel: Three Studies

The Abrams planetarium must be a bloody big planetarium to have 100 rooms, possibly more.

:cool: Crossed wires or something

I'm actually going to read one of his books soon, the one about Nietzsche. As for his metaphysics, it hasn't ever grabbed my interest, but that may ch...

I now have an image in my head that I did not expect to have.

Yeah, I was talking about Deleuze's metaphysics, not metaphysics generally — and I imagine there might be other philosophers around who do it in the s...

An eminently liberal idea: that capitalism is as old as civilization itself :lol: Yeah, it really now seems that it was.

I just went down a moist rabbit hole and ended up with this:

:up: EDIT: I mean, I think that's a big part of how liberalism grew. I'd back off from describing it in conspiratorial terms.

Your satire about food in the totally administered society cuts close to the bone.

What said. What I said about colonialism, slavery, and class hierarchy was an expression of a position in political philosophy, and a position with re...

You butchered my sentence. Convenient.

I haven't had much luck with pork chops, invariably finding them dry and dense and flavourless, so I've decided to only have them in Spain, where they...

I'm going out on a limb because I haven't read him, but I get the sense that Deleuze was doing something like this. I don't know about poetry, but his...

Are you sure about that?

And the essence of liberalism is to justify capitalism with the ideology of equality, individual liberty and property rights. And not only to justify ...

Cool. I've never been to El Salvador.

Fair

It's cummerbund, not cumberbund, you barbary apes.

In our culture we don't eat the embers.

There are also slices.

You and your bone broth. :roll: I've had it up to here with your bone broth. :groan:

Notice the two shapes of skewer notch. An apparently small feature that in practice takes it to the next level.

Nice. I now love your beige shoes, walls, animals and life.

You've changed your tune! You were insulting my favoured grill apparatus, the mangal, some years ago and I've never got(ten) over it.

Whatever happens, I'll be cooking meat over burnt wood as my forefathers intended... https://i.postimg.cc/3R3K2y9B/PXL-20250412-132503129.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/9FqC2SVj/PXL-20250412-051111332.jpg Snowed last night. A week ago I was cycling in shorts and t-shirt, and the forecast says a we...

:up: And as far as I can tell there’s even more to it than that, e.g., the aesthetic sense in general and its connection to morality, and the role of ...

Chronologically. I'm about half way through and have already discovered many authors that were new to me. Taking a break now though, because it's mass...