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It could be interesting to compare the “two kinds of news”: “genuine fake news,” and that of mainstream media. From the one side, mainstream media has...

The problem with your example that you make the judgment "in the fullness of time". Yet, maybe at the time of publication, those articles relied on pl...

What was October 30, 1938 Orson Welles’s radio broadcast about? “The War of the Worlds” included “news alerts” that led the listener to believe that t...

Both Huxley and Orwell grounded their narrations on simple ideas of utopia and dystopia, and both are in perfect fit with regimes of the truth of gran...

Any private opinion, after all, appears to be a typical, common opinion. Further, taken up by mass media or social media, it acquires some attributes ...

Fake news has both components of the agreement as well as disagreement, and it does not express merely someone’s private opinion.

Both books are great, but I do not think literature or literary criticism could be relevant to understand fake news.

Thank you for the interesting analysis of some totalitarian aspects of our societies. I just want to add a few points. I think that it will be benefic...

Indeed, Cavell’s claim can be interpreted as an assertion of a fundamental asymmetry, grounding the condition for language to function at all. When Ca...

A few additional dimensions ground the association between the request and the equivalence relation. First, there is the intention (desire) to speak, ...

In spite of the apparent divergence of their accounts of technology, Heidegger and Simondon reveal the affinity of their understandings of an event, w...

I mean that for Heidegger scientists themselves in principle cannot give a full and correct account on what are they doing. Farther, if one embraces t...

Heidegger: “modern science, as the theory of the real, is not anything self-evident. It is neither a mere construct of man nor something extorted from...

I think that these fragments show how brilliant Massumi’s account of an event is. I’d like to pay your attention to the contemporary political develop...

Thank you for doing the work and making this case of "a cool blood killer.” It was interesting reading. DG’s concept of “an assemblage” is one of the ...

• I’ve taken most vocabulary from Guattari’s book “Schiizoanalytic cartographies”; mimetic emulation is from Girard; I used Guattari’s model on pg. 27...

I’d like to get back to the first post of this thread. The financial trader in the trade room may represent a good case to check the appropriateness o...

Definitely, in spite of enormous differences within each group, it is possible to set up this dichotomy. Maybe, one could add Baudrillard to the secon...

Yes, I want to talk about Adorno’s Aesthetics. This work is fundamental and encyclopedic.So, lt could be interesting to try to apply his aesthetics to...

First, I do not endorse. Second, it was not just about Adorno’s reading of Heidegger. As far as I see it, this book reflected his existential position...

When you come to the cinema, or when you watch the news or a show, or when you get exposed to a multiplicity of communicational, computerized factors ...

I disagree. Our present time is composed of primarily cinematographic, telecommunicational duration. The problem is that in most cases we do not reali...

Nietzsche’s vision reflected how he grasped the essence of his time. Further, it served as a grounding point for such thinkers as Foucault and Deleuze...

Christophe Guilluy argued that there is “a new class conflict” in France. According to Guilluy, “No name No Aim .... Sin nombre sin objective” movemen...

It looks like you think that collective memories (therefore, contemporary temporalities) are the main reason as well as the explanatory model, explain...

If one agrees with you that this is the key question, it is worth considering your answer(s): 1)“my dynamic ‘now’ consist of a very different form of ...

Could you explain why you don’t agree with Trump’s border policy? What is your vision?

I am not sure that you correctly interpreted the Gallagher and Hutto approach. As Fiebich, Gallagher, and Hutto -https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

But, what is “a priory differential structure escaping the logic of presence”? Derrida: ‘there may be a difference still more unthought than the diffe...

Thank you for interesting reading. I think that Gendlin’s insights are indeed right and useful, so I understand your enthusiasm about him. I just want...

Heidegger wrote: “Most thought-provoking in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” If so, what is required from us to start th...

“The most important thing to understand is that these two poles that comprise a singularity, an 'it', give the the origin of stability and change, of ...

The essay is interesting. Von G. wrote himself: “The way that question was put at the very beginning made it impossible to answer, and the attempts th...

Thank you for your note! I appreciate your points. Yet, I would like to change the style of our debate – I am afraid that further interpretation of po...

I think that your apprehension of “A Foucaultian-Deleuzian account” is not completely correct, especially when you attribute to both Foucault and Dele...

I think that the concept of “community” is too often overused. In your previous posts, you wrote: “Consciousness, far from being the self- knowing com...

First, I’d like to return to your question from another thread: You asked: How does Deleuze explain stable personality features? I answered: In princi...

I think that Guattari’s approach in some sense is parallel to what StreetlightX wrote in this thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/commen...

I brought just an elementary and simple example which do not represent the whole Guattari’s project. From this example, one indeed can get the impress...

I mean this is not the conscious activity in the manner of cartesian Cogito. Felix Guattari wrote: “When we drive, we activate subjectivity and a mult...

If one is working as the financial trader at the stock market, one’s mind is preoccupied with a multiplicity of heterogeneous realities: the reality o...

I disagree. Deleuze wrote that: ““Self, the spontaneity of which I am conscious in the “I think” cannot be understood as the attribute of a substantia...

Don't you think that "self-consistent in time" presupposes a kind of self-identity?

I agree with this. I just want to question the nature of “community of participants in an activity.” Who are these participants? For some thinkers, th...

I think that we definitely need to think of consciousness as a multiplicity. But, this is just a first step. Next, it is necessary to conceive the nat...

I think that James did not define consciousness rigorously, but he brought a lot of clarifying examples, even of someone sleeping, or in the state of ...

The problem is that the whole concept of consciousness is related to the set of notions, supporting the unity, oneness, and substantiality of primordi...

I agree with you, there are so many ways of thinking, not just one! It is a matter of choice - what you find more relevant. I will read your paper.

I think that neither Lacan nor Zizec reflects what we deal with in our lives. In my opinion, they have still stayed at the plain of the Signifier, whi...

For me, Massumi is one of the leading thinkers of our time, but one should read his texts with great caution. I think that a few distortions and misre...