The media is just one of the factors of the entire dynamic. There is the double crisis of economy's shutdown and pandemic's effects as well as the con...
The media has its agenda: it always tries to engage the most significant possible audience for as long as possible. To achieve this goal, the media ut...
There is one more way to think of Deleuze’s virtuality. When heat is applied to a tranquil liquid, the liquid’s equilibrium is disturbed. In classical...
Probably, to conceive an individual emotional sphere in relation to socially determined cognitive and affective processes, we could use Simondon’s app...
I agree with you. We need to reorient our thinking towards Outside, exteriority, or transindividuality. Now I better understand your undertaking of ‘t...
Yet, in some situations, the use of one word may be more appropriate than the other. In my examples, I applied ‘thinking’ to the case, where I am hamm...
When I hammer a nail, my thinking (it may or may not be accompanied by a verbal act) is different from thought in each of the following situations: I ...
This project has already been successfully persuaded, for example, by Foucault or D & G. However, after them, it looks like we should not get engaged ...
You make an excellent point here! Yes, it is still necessary to counter the dominating model of thought, based on the image of the sovereign rational ...
Probably, it could be reasonable to frame the three ways of thought that you discuss by using the concept of the image of thought. If one particular i...
On Foucault's account, power doesn't work through a large-scale finality, a closed teleology, or a centralized organizing principle. On the contrary, ...
When one is successful in dismantling, disassembling a complex of prevailing subjectivities, one functions not just as a political philosopher or a ra...
if we retake the historical perspective, we should conclude, that in the West, spontaneous crowd eruptions, acquiring the political will and threateni...
Thank you for raising the issue of the global debt! It is quite surprising that the vast majority of people do not share your perception of the global...
Zizek wrote this essay before the events of 2011. The Occupy movement was able to create the real threat, much more dangerous than the 9/11 attacks. N...
The recent history has shown that institutionalization and hierarchization of a few prominent protest movements have involved them in the totalizing s...
“Crowds and Power” is a great book. Nevertheless, it is not clear if Canetti’ insights could be expanded to explain the social ineffectiveness of the ...
Sorry, I did not understand your question.Probably, so far, there is no workable model, based on a research of the real historical fascistic regimes. ...
Nevertheless,, this is precisely our situation: it is the formation of different "foreign bodies" within our societies through various gradations of h...
I assume that in the US, there is the process quite similar to what is going on in the UK. Recently, the GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has accuse...
Probably, it is difficult to single out a group that has a monopoly on a prevailing agenda. (That is why the appearence of Trump, or "the lying, extre...
The main point of the video is against efforts to represent Trump’s voters and brexiters as deplorable, unspeakable, racist, xenophobic, etc. Also, ac...
This account of Trump’s rally confirms that his base is indeed comprised of deplorable and “unspeakable” people. “Trump mesmerised his fans for 102 mi...
It is an interesting attempt to understand Trump’s phenomenon. In Germany, the fascistic body politic had been constituted so that the body, the intel...
Jordan Peterson claims that the term of identity should not be overused; he insists that the gender identities under the question should have been con...
I started to understand your OP better. It looks like that based on Bakhtin’s essay on Epic vs Novel, you tried to reconstruct the central theme of Ba...
I am sorry, I meant collision, not collusion. Anyway, my point is that Bakhtin’s project was about the universality of dialogic relations so that any ...
The quotation is from “Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics”; and "dialogic collision" is the proper translation – Bakhtin especially underscored “the vi...
Bakhtin's notion of dialogic relationships should not be reduced to a mere field of communication between interlocutors in a dialogue: "Dialogic relat...
It is still not clear how Culp’s idea of escape (definitely Deleuzian) is related to his vision of communism. “Darkness advances the secret as an alte...
My consciousness can function just through its temporality, which has existed as an organized structure. The three so-called dimensions of time: past,...
Recently, Judith Butler further developed her account on responsibility. She discussed various aspects of a question that Adorno posed: “Can one lead ...
What is the truth of belonging to identity itself? What kind of identity do you use here? Do we need the principle of identity to define gender or sex...
Doubtless, Butler and Arendt accounts of responsibility are correct. Nevertheless, they are incomplete: Sartre laid out a different outlook on what is...
When we have a dream – does it satisfy your definition of meaningful mental activity? Is it a process of associative thinking? And what about fits of ...
It may look like Foucault’s genealogy is the development of Nietzsche’s one. Yet, he could not avoid the influence of Austin’s discovery of performati...
It could be interesting to compare Cavell's project with Pitkin’s one in more details. (Though, it is possible that my understanding of your account o...
I think that Cavell’s intention is different. “What seemed like finding the world in a dictionary was really a case of bringing the world to the dicti...
Hasn’t Mueller been appointed to investigate the alleged collusion of Trump’s campaign with Russia? And, hasn’t it been the alleged crime? Thank you f...
Trump's tweeting hyperactivity by many people has been considered as one of the examples of Fake News. Apparently, they are functional and effective! ...
Rhetoric! That would relate the phenomenon of Fake news to the art of affecting the audience. Further, it could imply the oversimplification, explaini...
In Pakistan, the vast majority of people are completely convinced that the entire story of Bin Laden’s killing was fabricated by the Obama administrat...
So, how are you going to convince your friends to change their minds? What is the non-partisan, common ground for dialog? There is a deep abyss betwee...
I do not think that the phenomenon of “Fake news” could be explained by someone’s intentional fabrication and/or manipulation. Michael Sawer writes: "...
We should not understand his words literally. Magritte’s entire project was about the deconstruction of the ordinary, conventional perceptions and the...
Unfortunately, this is the state of affairs; it does not depend on yours or my personal beliefs. We can call it variously if you don’t like Post-Moder...
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