You're simply collapsing knowledge, intention, and action into one big blob. There things are not the same, and it is not very useful to treat them as...
I don't believe I have, and furthermore, whether or not we do or do not have responsibility is not very relevant. The question is over what responsibi...
Like I said to someone else, this isn't a debate over intention. -- Also, Butler's just a good old fashioned lesbian. The discussion of her title isn'...
Andrew Culp - Dark Deleuze (meh) Jane R. Goodall - The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia Slavoj Zizek - Organs Without Bodies: D...
Stronger than this: 'need not' implies an option. I'm saying this is a matter of principle, of necessity: we are only responsible to the degree that w...
This is one of the few clear instances where a politics of 'identity' is clearly not in any way at stake: there is no question here of 'identifying' w...
I wouldn't say that 'intention' is at stake here, or at least I don't think intention is coextensive with control. What I'm trying to argue for is rat...
Psychoanalysis is now so diffuse among contemporary theory that if you don't find 'post-Lacanians' or 'post-Freudians' it's because the use of psychoa...
The Hong Kong protestors are democratic heros, actual, real life superheroes, and what they're doing may just be the last gasp of democracy anywhere i...
It's a lovely phrase right? I borrowed it from Merleau-Ponty, who uses the language of the hollow in a different context (for him, we are hollows in t...
We can call it accountability instead if you prefer, and keep responsibility for causal attributions. In any case it's not the latter idea I'm concern...
Not at all. We regularly distinguish between those (held) responsible for their actions and those not, if by means of age, mental capacity, or otherwi...
Hello! Sorry for the late reply, I wrote the OP at the airport before a weekend trip, which is a terrible idea, but I'm back so better late than never...
Reader here! General responses to your smattering of questions: I've been hovering around 50 books per year recently, though I've been a bit behind th...
I think the point is that the two are consubstantial: there is no responsibility for without responsibility to: as she says, the entire 'problem of re...
The Stoics are more subtle than might first appear - recall the story Epictetus tells of Priscus' response to Vespasian, when Vespasian threatens to k...
Yes, because that's the only possible way anyone could be held responsible, to whatever extent, for another. Worth noting too that the idea that cause...
This is a tortured and spurious distinction. Moreover, there is no question of 'taking back power' over words; one of the ways we exercise our powers ...
I quite like this vocabulary of 'inducing a sortal on the environment': I read it as a way (at a first approximation) of qualifying causality. So rath...
This doesn't follow and is also really dumb on the face of it. "X is really, really important, which is why we should under no circumstances, in any w...
'Control?' Like one 'controls' a toy car? That's not how the power of speech operates - at least not except under the most restricted and terrible con...
Not to be crass but this is almost laugh out loud funny. "Can you imagine if other people's speech were to be influences on other people? My gosh, no,...
It's always kinda funny to watch Americans suckling at the teet of their daddies. Sorry, 'founding daddies'. 'What would daddy think of this?!' being ...
My friend, you need to read some economic anthropology, and see how all these priciples play out in real life. The attempt to measure policy and socie...
I was just thinking of mentioning how incredibly anemic this kind of libertarian political ontology is: the only actors that exist are 'free individua...
It's ridiculous isn't it? Germany under Hitler was a fascist state, so that complete state control is justified because that's just how it was organiz...
Here's what I think is at stake here (let me know if it's different): are you trying to account for the autonomy of systems without at the same time t...
Weather or not the US is or is not a union of states says nothing to whether the current set-up of state representation is democratically representati...
Yes, and the point is that the current set-up of 'state representation' is itself not representative of the nation - that is, is undemocratic. Saying ...
It's depressingly hilarious to read responses here which blame the people for not being good enough for their democracy. As for the semantic dodge tha...
I should note that the feeling of being overwhelemed is not necessarily a bad thing. That feeling can be a drive, a pulsion that motivates you forward...
He didn't say you have to study all of it; just that you ought to know more than nothing about it. So some of it will do. Will try listen to the podca...
Welcome to the site! You're asking an important set of questions, and what I say won't answer them directly so much as maybe help relieve the pressure...
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