In the film Nomadland (2020) there is a speech that sums up the essence of self-help therapy talk, it is the final scene with Bob Wells (The clip/or f...
...art is useless -at least when compared, say, to the work of a plumber, or a doctor, or a railroad engineer. But is uselessness a bad thing? Does a ...
some complementary remarks from Alain Badiou (Adventures of French Philosophy) who more or less written, interviewed or debated with them all, a conci...
this fourfold OP is not dissimilar to poetic tones of (the later) Heidegger, an attempt to make a distinction between calculative thinking and meditat...
there is a recurring discourse about appearance vs reality that historically stems from Plato’s Republic book X, I won’t bother with footnotes, nor th...
Clarity of prose, reveal and humour reads a bit like Saki, but Saki is more acerbic, full of innuendo. The other projected passing comment I would add...
Wittgenstein “On Certainty” 286. What we believe depends on what we learn. We all believe that it isn't possible to get to the moon; but there might b...
question/comments prompts me to the famous story of the philosopher Thales (water of all things), who whilst looking at the stars fell into a well (no...
find this quote quite funny (my bold), from Heidegger: ...Nietzsche never did publish what he really thought after Zarathustra something we tend to ov...
Subjectively, it reminds me of one of Roald Dahl’s adult “Tales of the Unexpected” (William and Mary), but more specifically Oscar Wilde’s “Picture of...
…question made complicated because “science” or “philosophy” means different things to different people/contexts. With the shifting and inconsistent d...
roland barthes, in particular: "image, music text" could be helpful, semiotics combined with psychoanalysis, would be the way i would approach the que...
from an arts perspective check out cindy sherman, her art work addresses "he gaze" critically, too many postmod essays out there to quote, but the wor...
mostly agree above, but i would say the one way to address this question more deeply is perhaps go to go an art gallery and look at the work of artist...
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