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['Member']Joined: July 29, 2018 at 14:37Last active: February 25, 2026 at 13:3619 discussions635 comments

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History as End

July 11, 2021 at 15:02 21 comments Politics and Current Affairs

Fake news

June 25, 2019 at 19:43 92 comments Political Philosophy

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Yes, it can make LLMs a kind of new interactive textbook. However, I don’t think such a text has ever been published before. This ‘textbook’ is create...
October 17, 2025 at 00:41
Thank you for sharing your experience of interacting with AI. As has been frequently mentioned in this thread, one of the most pressing challenges is ...
October 16, 2025 at 16:06
You're right to point out that people in similar environments don’t all make the same choices. But one doesn’t become a woke activist simply by making...
August 28, 2025 at 20:32
The emergence of new forms or possibilities of life should not be celebrated simply because they appear novel or transgressive. Instead, we should mea...
August 26, 2025 at 23:18
Indeed, this may constitute the central problem of Nietzsche’s project of revaluation. On one hand, nihilism marks the collapse of transcendent founda...
August 26, 2025 at 19:40
Your point raises a fundamental question about the status and value of thymotic desire under the conditions of late capitalism. It seems we share the ...
August 24, 2025 at 22:48
Let me re-formulate your questions: Is activism an effect of an involuntary process of subjectivation (i.e. “one can’t help it”)? Does this process al...
August 23, 2025 at 23:53
In principle, I agree with your general evaluation of contemporary activism, which may also help qualify the nature of “wokeness.” However, the notion...
August 23, 2025 at 18:28
It is an interesting observation, but it has two controversial theses. First, that neoliberalism is a completed project with no real internal challeng...
August 22, 2025 at 19:50
Sartre, Lacan, and Althusser present various views on the structural embeddedness of social inscription. But they all suggest that the subject’s desir...
August 20, 2025 at 12:15
We are still here in this thread because what is commonly referred to as “wokeness” concerns all of us. We consider this issue to be urgently importan...
August 05, 2025 at 02:40
@"Leontiskos"@"Joshs"@"Count Timothy von Icarus" Even in writing here, we likely operate under the same general conditions that enable and reinforce w...
August 03, 2025 at 22:49
@"Leontiskos" It is an idealized interpretation of Deleuze’s concept of the line of flight. A line of flight is not necessarily liberatinary or revolu...
August 02, 2025 at 20:54
Great—likely, we’re now much closer to a more nuanced and developed approach to the phenomenon of wokeness. What you describe as “neglect is volitiona...
August 02, 2025 at 17:26
You're right—and that's likely why I introduced a new example myself: the case of Eichmann. But in truth, we don't need more examples; we're already o...
August 02, 2025 at 16:22
I agree with all your points, they are excellent. However, they remain at a primarily descriptive level and lack a sufficient explanatory power. This ...
August 02, 2025 at 15:41
@"Leontiskos"@"Joshs" There isn’t just one such situation in life; on the contrary, we often live in a way that requires making decisions instantly, w...
August 02, 2025 at 10:35
These quotes show a philosophical divergence between Protevi’s approach and Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of subjectivity. For Protevi, agency and...
August 01, 2025 at 20:22
This post outlines your overall perspective on wokeness. It begins by a confusion between affect and feeling, and then opposes this conflated notion t...
July 31, 2025 at 18:21
"There is no Nietzsche-the-self, professor of philology, who suddenly loses his mind and supposedly identifies with all sorts of strange people; rathe...
July 30, 2025 at 00:06
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July 29, 2025 at 18:38
Thank you for sharing this article. It looks interesting and relevant, and I’ll definitely read it. As far as I know, none of the known contemporary s...
July 28, 2025 at 10:03
I’ve read only one work by Brassier on Deleuze, in ‘A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy’, so I’m not familiar with his overall perspective on Deleuze. ...
July 27, 2025 at 23:04
In principle, you are correct. However, the 2018 Kavanaugh hearing is a paradigmatic example of a triumphant woke spectacle. And it perfectly illustra...
July 27, 2025 at 09:40
I agree with you that wokeness is not a transitory phenomenon, and it is not about traditionally understood durable power. What matters more are the u...
July 26, 2025 at 22:53
@"Leontiskos" Thank you for your posts and for sharing your reflections on my OP and other posts in this thread. I’d like to clarify a few of my perso...
July 26, 2025 at 22:13
Thank you for your responses. Btw, I’ll respond to your second point about the role of affect in the context of wokism later. However, I disagree with...
July 26, 2025 at 21:58
Critics argue that emotional discomfort has become a trigger for restricting speech, displacing debate with moral claims based solely on feeling hurt ...
July 26, 2025 at 00:06
But what is your assessment of the academic content of this video—especially considering that Snyder is a leading scholar on fascism and Nazi Germany?
July 25, 2025 at 23:14
For Deleuze, Foucault’s philosophical project started within epistemology: “He actually started with an epistemology, or with an attempt to construct ...
July 25, 2025 at 22:28
It appears that your critique misrepresents the intent and scope of my argument. I do not attempt to re-inscribe a metaphysical binary between reason ...
July 25, 2025 at 20:51
I will answer. Btw, I would appreciate your response to my previous post:
July 25, 2025 at 20:46
In the case of wokeness, the issue is not one of disagreement or misunderstanding. Rather, it lies in the complete blurring of boundaries between the ...
July 25, 2025 at 14:00
I understand and respect your position. Yet, contemporary moral discourse has undergone a dramatic transformation. The imperative to understand others...
July 24, 2025 at 23:20
Your position likely aligns closely with Slavoj Žižek’s perspective on wokeness. Žižek argues that wokeness operates as a form of ideological displace...
July 24, 2025 at 19:33
Indeed, I have attempted to analyze wokeness through the lens of Deleuze and Foucault’s theories of power. Contrary to your point, however, I do not b...
July 24, 2025 at 19:32
Fukuyama’s desire to restore classical liberalism underestimates how thoroughly power has migrated away from the institutions and norms that liberalis...
July 24, 2025 at 19:29
You raise some of the most difficult and thought-provoking questions about wokeness. Why do so many intelligent and educated individuals deeply believ...
July 23, 2025 at 23:34
That is partially correct. However, the defining feature of our contemporary condition is that we can no longer rely automatically on the continuity o...
July 23, 2025 at 20:33
When we engage in contemporary online or identity politics discourse, the very act of speaking subjects us to the same conditions that shape what is c...
July 23, 2025 at 15:56
There are diverse philosophical, literary, and psychological approaches that reject the notion of memory as a passive faculty of involuntary recollect...
May 30, 2025 at 23:05
From the perspective of the embodied and embedded mind, memory and recollection are not seen solely as private, internal processes occurring within th...
May 27, 2025 at 23:22
As @"Asthrophel" noted, there are different perspectives on the nature of the present moment. For Deleuze, the present moment is the result of a synth...
May 26, 2025 at 18:35
You are correct. For example, Deleuze's analyses of time do involve a violation. His syntheses of time operate as a framework in which subjective time...
May 26, 2025 at 18:28
This question is indeed both interesting and important. Gilles Deleuze elaborates on Bergson’s notion of duration in a way that may help us understand...
May 25, 2025 at 13:37
Let me clarify my view on the relationship between subjective and objective time. Subjective time highlights the mind’s role in constructing and exper...
May 23, 2025 at 15:35
For Bergson, the actual refers to the reality we directly experience now. Differently, the virtual designates past experiences or memories that are no...
May 21, 2025 at 22:09
You are correct that no measurement exists outside of conscious temporary awareness. However, Bergson did not completely reject objective time. He dif...
May 21, 2025 at 17:34
@"Warfarer" Thank you for your thoughtful responses to my post. Your argument highlights that our experience and awareness of time are rooted in the p...
May 21, 2025 at 16:46
Let me consider your argument in P4. It implies that if subjective time exists, it would be contained within the conscious mind, as though it’s someth...
May 19, 2025 at 23:59