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I had forgotten about the private/public thing and @"Jamal" was just trying to be helpful. However, I vote along with @"Amity" to keep them private at...

"On Quality" - Robert Pirsig (published posthumously) Good as a short introduction to Pirsig's thought. "Event" -Slavoj Zizek. Good start. Relevant to...

I have been reading that for years. I suppose it's one of those books that grows on you.

Not sure we need the tag. It sounds a bit cumbersome to me.

Ha, we'll see, I guess. Anyhow, I am going to resume observer status for a while. Good night.

I see where you're coming from. So, it became a rights issue because a group of women objected and yes, the public should pay attention. But I don't t...

Part of what constitutes values are balances of rights and these are intertwined with socially determined definitions. I know cis-women, for example, ...

Thank you for clarifying.

(I only interjected really to make the point that the important difference seems to be one of cultural values not what social reality as defined by so...

Search engines and dictionaries are usually pretty good indicators of social reality though. Law is another important institution and perhaps @"Michae...

Well, for example, I typed "Is a transgender man a man?" into Google and got the result: "Yes, a transgender man is considered a man. The term "transg...

My understanding of what you are doing is expressing a cultural value that was formerly implicit due to the absence of a trans discourse, but you woul...

Deadline fast approaching if anyone needs a reminder...

Black Mass - John Gray Strong critique of utopian thinking throughout post-enlightenment western political thought right up to recent American neocon ...

Berardi is a cultural critic, particularly focused on technocapitalism. His best known book is "Uprising", but I haven't read that. Anyhow, he provide...

Breathing: Chaos and Poetry---Franco "Bifo" Berardi A bit uneven but where's it's good, it's very good.

Let's leave it there then. Thank you for the chat.

There clearly are issues and it's up to you as a society to work them out to your preference. But any rational social policy should be logically consi...

That means your objection is not based on what someone looks like or what physical bits they have. And, if so, what does it matter whether trans women...

Well, it's culturally dependent. Where I live---Thailand---we are very much there. The idea of preventing trans women from using a woman's bathroom is...

On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects: Gilbert Simondon I very much like Bernard Stiegler's approach to technics and he was highly influenced ...

Challenged on what basis? Physically, a trans man---who you must want to be in women's bathrooms because you claim they are women due to their biologi...

If it won't be policed then everyone effectively has a choice and what choice is taken might vary with time. So, we effectively agree.

I'm not interested in trying to brow-beat anyone into changing their definitions. But, seeing as who "passes" is not something that can be objectively...

But regardless, technologies of body modification have reached the point where there need be no obvious physical way to determine who has what chromos...

Let's call it recent to the public sphere of debate. But, yes, as far as I've heard, the general idea of gender not matching sex is not recent at all....

Another Mark Fisher fan. :up: Let's pretend unique musical forms aren't dead (nor history either) and 1000 years later, people are listening to Drock ...

That's not entirely unreasonable. But I think it's worth anyone of either sex pointing out in relation to my earlier comment that we're always dealing...

Indeed, Harry's biological essentialism is a queer ideology.

:up: What strikes me is that there are certain presumptions built into saying this or that is or isn't art, which are easy to miss, and which often in...

Why didn't Cleopatra play rugby? She didn't have the balls, I suppose.

@"gadzooks" Art, I would say, exists in a relationship between the subject and the social whereby the art emerges from a subjective affective / intuit...

Me too.

Introduction to Biosemiotics - Edited by Marcello Barbieri I was recently persuing this thread by @"Streetlight" : https://thephilosophyforum.com/disc...

The list was by a well-known organization as far as I remember, but it was awful. Everything in the top 20 was English literature.

I saw it at number one on a "greatest books of all time" list recently, which did puzzle me. The Pedagogy of Freedom - Paulo Freire. A book of integri...

A Theory of Semiotics: Umberto Eco. Very good, but predominantly technical. Reads mostly like a textbook with lots of taxonomy, working through defini...

You are quoting the AI generated text above, not my words. (I thought we established that.) My personal opinion, which I hinted at before, is that I a...

Maybe this question has been asked. But did you at any point consider making a distinction between life and human life (edit: in the first axiom)? I a...

OK, fair enough.

Oh, I didn't mean one should keep AI out of research. I meant it would better be kept out of the thread. If you appreciate Devil's advocate responses,...

I haven't read the full conversation. I only wanted to point out that it's better to keep AI out of it. If we agree on that, great.

(It's a general issue with AI that it doesn't by default judge users' ideas neutrally. If it knows the user generated some set of ideas, it acts more ...

You can gerrymander Gemini to tell you what you want to hear both ways I plugged the argument into Gemini 2.5 pro. Here are the multitude of flaws it ...

Good OP, thank you, and I agree with the sentiment. There are philosophers out there who bring neuroscience into philosophy---I'm thinking the Churchl...

Oh, it regurgitated my intended plot back to me. I was curious if the story was comprehensible or not. Apparently, it is. But the comparison was not e...

GPT 4-o understands my obscure Lacanian-ish cartoons. Also, got "The Lark" right, which confused everyone here except maybe @"Amity". I've warmed to h...

Yes, definitely.

Extremely interesting. Having read them, I'd say a must for anyone interested in the intersection between art and philosophy (the real meat of the the...

Coincidentally, also been reading this. A lot of good stuff in there. And: Propaganda by Jacques Ellul The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Thinking Fa...