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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...
December 27, 2025 at 20:43
...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 ...
July 25, 2025 at 15:17
some complementary remarks from Alain Badiou (Adventures of French Philosophy) who more or less written, interviewed or debated with them all, a conci...
June 28, 2025 at 23:01
Michel Foucault 'Les rapports de pouvoir passent a l'interieur des corps', in Quinzaine Litteraire 247, 1-15 January 1977.
June 23, 2025 at 21:51
this fourfold OP is not dissimilar to poetic tones of (the later) Heidegger, an attempt to make a distinction between calculative thinking and meditat...
March 01, 2025 at 05:33
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...
April 13, 2024 at 00:19
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...
August 19, 2023 at 22:38
heard that Santa Claus was at a Xmas speed dating event, he pulled a cracker. happy new year everyone! :smile:
December 29, 2022 at 05:41
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...
October 08, 2022 at 04:36
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...
May 13, 2022 at 01:35
find this quote quite funny (my bold), from Heidegger: ...Nietzsche never did publish what he really thought after Zarathustra something we tend to ov...
February 21, 2022 at 01:32
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...
January 04, 2022 at 03:14
…question made complicated because “science” or “philosophy” means different things to different people/contexts. With the shifting and inconsistent d...
November 04, 2021 at 04:54
roland barthes, in particular: "image, music text" could be helpful, semiotics combined with psychoanalysis, would be the way i would approach the que...
November 02, 2021 at 00:54
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...
August 02, 2021 at 08:01
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...
May 26, 2021 at 07:58