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Here’s how Heidegger would answer that question. Let’s see if Astorre agrees: Heidegger would reject the framing of the question, because it presuppos...

It’s one of my favorites too. ‘The Nothing nothings’

It seems to me the distinction you are making can just as well be cast as that between philosophy and literature as between West and East. With regard...

Neoplatonism may have been around for centuries, but my references to evolution and revolution were meant to capture how Hegel’s focus on historical c...

Oops. Thanks. Concerning Indra’s net, it is not enough to transport the concept of the radical interdependence of all things as a one-size-fits-all cl...

I know of two cultures which have been claimed as thinking radically differently about being, presence and purpose in comparison with Western approach...

Sameness, similarity, consistency and inferential compatibility are important. The self-preservation of living things, scientific knowledge and agreem...

Would you agree there’s an easy way to test whether it’s tangential? Namely by jumping back into the topic of the OP and seeing how long we last until...

I only intended my reference to Deleuze and his notions of the unconscious and the pre-consciousness for Number2018, because Deleuze is important to h...

Richard Rorty made some interesting observations along these lines.

Let’s talk about identity. What is the role of time for you in the determination of identity? In my way of thinking, identity requires temporal repeti...

I had a pretty good sense this was how your well-intended project was going to end. I consider you to be one of the rare few on this site who grasps t...

Heidegger spent much time critiquing the change-rest dichotomy going back to the Greeks. It would seem to be the case that in order for there to be ch...

Right , one needs to find a criterion on the basis of which way of being is preferable to another, more desirable. Let’s examine two ‘postmodern’ mode...

Maybe the views of two prominent researchers on affect will be a little clearer. Robert Solomon’s book Not Passion’s Slave argues against the traditio...

I am engaged in a dispute with Number2018 over what writers like Deleuze, Wittgenstein (where Antony’s perspective comes from) and Foucault mean by af...

Affect is simply the differences ( affecting and affected), the partial objects, the building materials, the working parts of machinic assemblages. It...

I’m going to offer my take on how Deleuze would analyze Eichmann’s situation, then present a Wittgensteinian perspective that I think is consonant wit...

Are you familiar with the concept of the specious present? It was designed to address the problem of continuity that arises from the notion of time as...

Thinking isn’t in the business of thinking ‘things’ (identities) that differ, but of producing differences that relate to other differences.

Difference isn’t identified, as though there were some separate subject simply noticing what differs. Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition is all about...

That is a good summary of what we get from Einstein. Do you want to treat physics as the ground floor of your understanding of the world, or do you, l...

Derrida, Heidegger and Deleuze say there can be change without stasis. More precisely, there can be difference without a prior identity. So how does t...

Is this inner word beyond being and becoming certain in itself , and as such the certain and absolute ground of all that is and all that becomes or me...

Heidegger’s main argument is that the definition of the truth of a being as adequation, or correctness, between appearance and reality, between how it...

You may be more conversant with Hegel than I am, but I suspect that thinking a hierarchy of values according to power originates with Hegel’s dialecti...

This sounds fine, as far as it goes. I’m concerned with an interpretation of the above which sanctions something like Protevi’s concept of political a...

They are relativist to a point. For instance, social constructionism’s anti-realism is epistemically realistic. Joseph Rouse’s analysis may easily be ...

When Nietzsche uses the word ‘life’ , he doesn’t mean it in a conventional biological sense. For instance, he rejected what he interpreted as the Darw...

We are always acting in accordance with the will, for Nietzsche. More specifically, we are always acting according to the will to power. All motivatio...

My reading of volunterisric doesn’t depend on removing the distinction between good and bad. It has to do with a metaphysical notion of the will where...

You need to remind what you think the difference is, in specific terms. Let’s start with this: If you agree with Barron that CT doesn’t adhere to an ‘...

Is that what Nick Land’s accelerationism is about?

Human beings are pattern-seekers. That is how we are able to function in a world which never repeats itself identically from one moment to the next. W...

Doesn’t this raise the issue of the difference between theory and practice? Dont we all walk around with interpretive frameworks in our heads allowing...

But wouldn’t AO argue that it is only on the dimension of the molar (rather than within molecular intensities, the body without organs) where a ‘feeli...

According to one way of reading Nietzsche on Will to Power, he is advocating the creation of values systems which , in themselves and in terms of thei...

I’d rather audaciously stumble into the unknown. It beats a lobotomy.

Let me use your analogy of the garden. It is a human-constructed niche, and like all of our built niches, what constitutes a proper or improper garden...

I think it is the eventual fate of all our best ideas to appear from the vantage of hindsight as the ravings of idiots. As my favorite psychologist, G...

Totalitarianism has to lock in, to totalize something. Doesnt it totalize a particular value system? If one says that a radical relativist acquiesces ...

Yes. Lobotomies were performed in the U.S. for 40 years, sanctioned by all the proper scientific authorities. What’s the point of calling them idiots?...

Maybe we can find something to agree on here. Let me say that there are a lot of crazy-ass wokist actions I’m not in a position to attach a CT pedigre...

Was lobotomy idiotic?

Concepts like status, self-interest, power and control can inform diametrically opposed positions depending on how the subjectivity, or ‘self’, they r...

Is that any different than the interests and needs of gay people being created by gay culture? Onencould apply a Foucaultian genealogical analysis and...

My belief is that to critique CT from the vantage of Rorty, Deleuze or Derrida one must step outside of it in the direction of an alternative stance. ...

Based on the video, I would say he knows next to nothing about them, but in order to demonstrate this, I would have to locate a more extended text of ...

Congratulations. You have just summarized a a central feature of deconstructive reading. it can one be ‘informed by’ and at the same time move in a wh...

As I mentioned earlier, wokism, to the extent that it can be connected with Critical theory, is realist in outlook. So it shouldn’t be surprising that...