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Of course, we can. Indubitably, the notion of communicative action expresses a reality of double enactment inherent to any speech act. One is acted up...
May 03, 2024 at 19:59
It is possible to argue that both stances do not allow for rendering them irrational within Habermas’s theory of communicative action. A commitment to...
May 03, 2024 at 14:29
What is finitude for Nietzsche? He affirms the primacy of a world of becoming over a world of being: “That everything recurs is the closest approximat...
March 25, 2024 at 22:59
You can access a reality beyond a direct and immediate perception by looking at theories of a spectator’s or reader’s relation to a film, text, or art...
February 12, 2024 at 18:16
This interpretation closely follows Foucault’s perspective on the Nietzschean theory of will to power. Thus, it assumes a strong correlation between t...
January 11, 2024 at 18:30
Habermas insists that his theory breaks with Kantian philosophy of the subject. And, if we leave aside Habermas’s insistence on the primacy of implici...
January 04, 2024 at 19:21
It is an interesting and affirmative but incomplete perspective on the implications of the theory of a will to power. There is a need to clarify what ...
January 03, 2024 at 19:45
Thank you for your response. You are correct that Lacan’s desire is incompatible with the Epicurean’s. There is no simple dichotomy for me, with a gro...
October 16, 2023 at 23:17
This perspective asserts the primacy of power and the way it circulates through a community. But in what way? The circulation ‘from the bottom up rath...
October 15, 2023 at 22:26
As far as I know, Deleuze never applies the term society regarding his theory of desire. For him, the concept of ‘a society of selves and a society of...
October 14, 2023 at 21:09
For Lacan, desire is never fully satisfied. Any material or ‘natural’ need requires articulation and recognition demanded from another. After transfer...
October 13, 2023 at 22:51
It could be understood that your point is based on the premise of a clear and transparent meaning of ‘we.’ When you write: ‘We do have criteria,’ ‘We ...
August 22, 2023 at 18:03
New materialism revokes the problem of evaluating modes of existence using criteria immanent to the mode itself or to practices as self-sufficient, au...
August 05, 2023 at 20:16
The direct contact with the general relational field does not ground the materiality of discourses. There is no immediate access to a world external t...
July 31, 2023 at 23:14
I think that in spite of his statements, Deleuze is close to Foucault; he tries to further reinterpret, radicalize, and reapply the deindivinduation s...
June 11, 2023 at 19:32
It is worth considering again the principal difference between Foucault and Butler. Butler writes:” I contravene Foucault in some respects. For if the...
June 11, 2023 at 16:37
Foucault’s approach is quite different from Butler’s. For Foucault, gender is the effect of the ongoing transformations and intensification of supple ...
June 10, 2023 at 00:22
Thank you for your post, the logical analyses, and the broad conclusions. As you rightly noted, there are no consistently articulated meanings of defe...
May 09, 2023 at 16:53
In his example, Shackel rebukes Foucault for “arbitrary redefinition” of “elementary but inherently equivocal terms such as ‘truth’ and ‘power’ in ord...
May 05, 2023 at 19:21
@"Joshs" The figurative style of “The vision and the riddle” allows us to avoid literal and direct approaches to the problem of time. Nietzsche create...
March 26, 2023 at 19:01
As far as I see, @"Moliere" admitted that his/her position is just a preliminary note of Harvey’s lecture. I have yet to understand your position, lik...
February 19, 2023 at 22:12
@"Moliere" I do not think, fdrake, that when you write ‘people create systems together,’ you imply one of the theories of the Social Contracts. They a...
February 17, 2023 at 21:22
I am not sure I understand your account of Harvey’s lecture correctly. It may be concluded that instead of this appearance - ‘the totality of the proc...
February 15, 2023 at 23:45
Deconstruction of subjectivity as a way of existence and the production of the new was inherited by Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida from Nietzcshe. I d...
January 18, 2023 at 23:35
No, it is not. The figures of Nietzsche’s Dionisius, Foucault’s Baudelaire, and Deleuze’s Proust and Kafka have not returned the identity of the same....
January 18, 2023 at 23:31
No, it is not. Heidegger asserts the rollback of Nietzsche's thought to metaphysics. He misrepresents the doctrine of the will to power and identifies...
January 16, 2023 at 17:41
This image of time ensues from Benjamin and Foucault's perspectives on Baudelaire's attitude to modernity. For Foucault, Baudelaire aspires to overcom...
January 14, 2023 at 20:07
Undoubtedly, Heidegger's philosophy of time significantly supports your affirmation of an individual's capacities to maintain autonomy and adaptabilit...
January 12, 2023 at 19:49
You stress out our freedom to adopt and reconstruct ‘that overarching framework that guides our motives and understandings.’ Yet, this account implies...
January 11, 2023 at 16:52
Let's assume that you are right, and we are indeed in a situation where the space of allowed public discourse on social platforms was intentionally co...
December 08, 2022 at 18:39
I want to get back to my previous post. It may be my fault that I could not articulate my central point clearly; it is about the question of the ineff...
December 04, 2022 at 23:32
It is unclear how this ‘the most radical aspect of Deleuze’ that you embrace is compatible with your perspective on phenomenology and the ineffable. A...
December 03, 2022 at 19:42
Your account of the ineffable refers to the formal phenomenological structures and our conscious experience. It is a correct but incomplete presentati...
December 02, 2022 at 16:35
Based on Deleuze's text 'Desire and Pleasure,' it is not difficult to oppose Deleuze and Foucault's ontologies. Yet, in 'Foucault,' Deleuze entirely c...
November 30, 2022 at 16:04
I guess this quote is from Derrida's memorial note, written after Deleuze's death. Is it from 'I have to wander All Alone? The text's tone is understa...
November 30, 2022 at 00:33
Could you expand this? In what way Deleuze was close to Derrida's approach? Could you relate Derrida's perspective on power to your quote from 'Desire...
November 27, 2022 at 22:56
So, ‘the social” here is significantly reduced to what can be expressed by either discursive or the apparent perceptual features of ’my room.’ Such re...
November 27, 2022 at 20:02
How can the singularity become ungraspable, but recognizable? “We are before this text that, saying nothing definite and presenting no identifiable co...
November 26, 2022 at 17:00
Yes, there is no such introjection. But our use of language has no more autonomy than our socially situated organization of perception. As you wrote i...
November 25, 2022 at 16:41
What is the relationship between "the product of a complex constructive activity of perception" (redness), and the embodiment of language here? When I...
November 24, 2022 at 01:32
https://youtu.be/qciVozNtCDM Professor Mearsheimer has reiterated his known perspective on the Russo-Ukrainian war. After his presentation, an interes...
June 20, 2022 at 17:23
"It is because of differance that the movement of signification is possible only if each so-called "present" element, each element appearing on the sc...
June 12, 2022 at 15:48
This account of the birth of capitalism is significantly influenced by structuralist or classical liberal lines of thought: the market is an impersona...
May 20, 2022 at 23:30
It looked like the purpose of this thread is not just to fixate the basic concepts but also to show why the critique of capitalism is still productive...
May 17, 2022 at 23:59
It can be more productive to expand the discussion of contemporary capitalism beyond the framework of “the exchange/production distinction so that pro...
May 16, 2022 at 23:14
There are so many examples around. Take the US right now: every field of social, political, marital, and private life have been transformed into a zon...
May 16, 2022 at 23:10
What should be added to this account of the birth of capitalism is the reciprocal interrelation between the impersonal production and reproduction and...
May 15, 2022 at 23:44
Let's go back to the original quote: "the unconscious libidinal investment is what causes us to look for our interest in one place rather than another...
May 04, 2022 at 22:10
Likely, what is implied here is the improper identification of drives and desire. It does not matter whether drives are directly referred to as instin...
May 04, 2022 at 14:18
For Deleuze and Guattari, there is not an I that produces but a process of production of which the I is a kind of product. Or, to put this in terms of...
May 04, 2022 at 00:16