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I try to understand your points and your enthusiasm about Gendlin, Kelly, Heidegger, and Derrida. Honestly, I am more familiar with Derrida's works th...
January 05, 2021 at 00:25
"Events understood as interaffectings of interaffectings, working within and beyond relations among presumed temporary essences (conceptual, affective...
January 03, 2021 at 23:14
Lacan has offered a scheme of time that achieves similar results by different means. It is not about an intention, being, and self that transforms its...
December 30, 2020 at 19:48
Any YouTube video about learning how to use a tool has a complement of verbal or finger-alphabet instructions. When one learns how to work with a scre...
December 29, 2020 at 14:15
As far as I understand, your point is that our mental states are ultimately independent of the corresponding verbal expressions. This position fails t...
December 28, 2020 at 15:29
If I believe that it is raining, there is my mental state that is expressed in belief. Yet, would my mental state be identifiable and recognizable if ...
December 27, 2020 at 16:14
Likely, when @"Banno" asserts that belief is always about states of affairs, this claim indicates a limited domain where beliefs are easily verifiable...
December 27, 2020 at 14:16
Sorry, I did not understand. Maybe you are right about Plato vs. Socrates relations. Even if Plato’s representation of Socrates’s story was polished a...
December 17, 2020 at 01:06
Likely, we do have different personal experiences of the void. Nevertheless, to find common ground, our task could be to conceptualize it. For Zizek, ...
December 16, 2020 at 00:25
You represent a relatively common point of view: all these thinkers are freaks and nuts, having enormous and baseless ambitions. It is understandable ...
December 16, 2020 at 00:09
I will try to explain myself. Of course, I like this kind of philosophical stuff. Yet, there are a few more things. Pleasure, all types of enjoyment a...
December 13, 2020 at 23:36
It is an excellent phenomenological mapping of our desire. And it resonates with Zizek’s account of our ontological conditions: ” What one should do h...
December 11, 2020 at 19:10
I agree with you; their style is too militant. Yet, they have offered the the most comprehensive critique of the Lacanian theory.I want to get back to...
December 10, 2020 at 17:46
You articulate here 'a common sense' psychology. It reaffirms a 'natural understanding' of a child development, but it can help neither understand our...
November 30, 2020 at 16:37
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November 30, 2020 at 16:31
@"csalisbury" Nathan Widder has recently developed this line of argumentation. He tries to reinterpret Lacan's scheme of a child's subjectivation via ...
November 29, 2020 at 23:23
Yes, of course. The statement is not hidden (in Foucault's sense) if we do not need to look for a hidden meaning, to interpret it according to a found...
October 30, 2020 at 23:44
I disagree. "Generally speaking, one can say that a sentence or a proposition - even when isolated, even divorced from the natural context that could ...
October 28, 2020 at 23:11
Foucault asserts that "A series of signs will become a statement on condition that it possesses 'something else'(which may be strangely similar to it,...
October 27, 2020 at 23:05
"Can one not say that there is a statement wherever one can recognize and isolate an act of formulation - something like the speech act referred to by...
October 26, 2020 at 22:47
It was not just about the contextuality of meaning. In "Archeology of knowledge," Foucault shows how his statements are related to speech-acts. Later,...
October 25, 2020 at 22:25
“The statement is not the direct projection on to the plane of language (langage) of a particular situation or a group of representations. It is not s...
October 24, 2020 at 23:12
It is a fundamental ambivalence here. In principle, the field of justice is autonomous and independent. Likely, when philosopher-kings in SCOTUS impos...
October 12, 2020 at 22:39
So far, the Dems grill Barrett on how she would rule on California v. Texas, a constitutional challenge to the ACA that is set to be argued before the...
October 12, 2020 at 16:32
It looks like Biden tacitly admitted that, if he is elected president, he will preside over the end of the filibuster. Consequently, it would allow De...
September 30, 2020 at 13:52
Just a few marginal groups or individuals embrace such a radical perspective on Law. The waste majority of people do not take The Supreme Court, the R...
September 28, 2020 at 23:03
Please correct me if I am wrong: probably, for the majority of people, judge Barrett’s professional or personal qualities almost do not matter. Maybe,...
September 28, 2020 at 23:01
Could you expand your apprehention of law as ideology?
September 27, 2020 at 23:33
I am not saying that it is going to be business as usual. I am saying that all sides play politics of fear and affect: there is almost no place for re...
September 27, 2020 at 18:29
It is common to blame Trump in undermining the trust in the integrity of the upcoming elections, and, consequently, destroying democracy. It is imposs...
September 27, 2020 at 17:29
Ford had made her case publicly to a friendly press. From a prosecutor's perspective, that was a doubtful way to handle allegations. The allegations w...
September 25, 2020 at 23:47
Likely, your description can be easily transformed into the abstract diagram of primary ad’s industry determinants, working strategies and tactics, al...
September 17, 2020 at 00:02
I understand your point. You mean that my articulation of subjectivities is a subjective construction itself without the objective grounding. You are ...
September 16, 2020 at 00:54
Likely, the capitalistic arrangements primarily produce particular subjectivities. A subjectivity could be defined as a cluster of behavioural pattern...
September 14, 2020 at 23:48
The problem here can probably not be solved with the help of the distinction between ideal, rational selves, and the illogical or irrational motivatio...
September 13, 2020 at 22:42
We could resolve the ad's paradox if we will rigorously apply your suggestion: We should reject the false opposition between mere facts and social, co...
September 11, 2020 at 22:09
Thank you for posing this problem. There is a paradoxical situation: we know that all of this is made up, and we approximately understand how it is pr...
September 09, 2020 at 13:43
You are right. We still do not fully understand it. I will try to analyze it again. Lacan is extraordinarily influential and interesting, but he is no...
September 09, 2020 at 00:00
You can try Michel de Certeau “The practice of everyday life”. There is a comparative critique of both Foucault and Bordieu. A little bit outdated, it...
September 08, 2020 at 14:35
I think that Lacan's conceptualizations represent different arrangements of truth. (Connections to your previous OP are possible and workable). Lacan ...
September 07, 2020 at 19:27
For Lacan, truth plays a crucial role in each of his four paradigmatic discursive conceptualizations. Any apparent discursive act presupposes differen...
September 06, 2020 at 13:37
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What does it mean that one is white? This identity has been changing so rapidly over the last time. @"Judaka" has presented this image of an imaginary...
September 02, 2020 at 23:34
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Thank you for clarifications! Anyway, did you mean that the system divides all people into two groups, or there are some individuals who are not 'mark...
September 02, 2020 at 23:13
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I mean that the general context organizes and directs our apprehension of this system as racist.
September 02, 2020 at 23:03
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I do not understand if you talk directly to me, or this is just your rhetoric style. In the first case, almost all that you say is factually incorrect...
September 02, 2020 at 22:57
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If we look at point #1: first, the assertion is not categorical (at least intends to divide),differently from what is asserted in #2, 3, and 4. Next, ...
September 02, 2020 at 22:40
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Should it be concluded from (1) - (4) that the society of the US is segregational and racist?
September 02, 2020 at 01:18
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All your consideration is based on the racial premise of skin colour as the most fundamental socio-economic distinction and operator. How can we know ...
August 31, 2020 at 22:03
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It is a challenging question. Probably, it is a false choice between “being white” and “being fully conscious of systemic racism.” We need to avoid a ...
August 31, 2020 at 21:04
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Probably, you are right: the term act indicates a kind of juridical responsibility. So, let's replace the "act of systemic racism" with "unintentional...
August 31, 2020 at 19:27