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Umbra

['Member']Joined: September 02, 2016 at 02:23Last active: February 24, 2024 at 16:45None discussions15 comments

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Being and Nothingness is indeed quite a tome, but even if you don't want to commit to reading the whole thing, taking a chapter by chapter approach wo...
April 22, 2020 at 01:43
Just to add to the list here--maybe Levinas (sadly)?
April 20, 2020 at 08:01
Ha! I'm not surprised. I will say Deleuze excels at criticism (e.g., his books on Proust and Kant are fantastic) but he never manages to convince me w...
April 20, 2020 at 07:54
Deleuze made Bergson popular to talk about again for a while, but I don't know if it stuck or encouraged people to actually read him again. Likely not...
April 20, 2020 at 06:58
This is interesting, because I have just returned to Being and Nothingness after many, many years, and literally just made a post regarding the book o...
April 20, 2020 at 06:48
Don't have much to say regarding the antinatalism debate itself here, but due to the virus situation I decided to finally read through all of Sartre's...
April 20, 2020 at 06:25
I get that you are talking about the representative "contents" of an experience, rather than the experience itself. Separating the two is perhaps not ...
January 25, 2020 at 23:52
As Augustine has said, strictly speaking there is (for us) no past, only the present of things past. Appearances can be deceptive while also being tru...
January 25, 2020 at 18:51
There is no "illusion" of the present in the way you are framing it. This is not to say we don't "lag behind" our experiences; indeed this is exactly ...
January 25, 2020 at 07:29
The man's politics were definitely irritating, and he seemed to revel a bit too much in being willfully controversial. Arguably, however, this did som...
January 22, 2020 at 22:04
Jacques Ellul - The Technological Society. One of the most important works of the 20th century, in my humble opinion. Also, hello everyone! Been away ...
January 22, 2020 at 21:32
I mostly appreciate his love for/fiscal contributions to promoting jazz music (Miles Davis was the first long-form interview published by the mag in 1...
October 03, 2017 at 03:01
Thank you, . It's nice to see some familiar faces again.
September 02, 2016 at 17:28
Haha thanks , good to see you again. I have been crazy busy this past year and haven't been on PF much, so I'm not entirely sure what's going on there...
September 02, 2016 at 12:56
Hello everyone! Just made the pilgrimage here from the now sadly defunct PF.
September 02, 2016 at 02:33