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Hard to say, there wasn't a robust enough debate about it. Contra is the hero we don't deserve.

Liberals be like: https://youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI

§132 The distinction drawn here between 'an' order and 'the' order ('in our knowledge of the use of language'), maps, I like to think, onto the distin...

Some favourites (psychoanalytically inclined): Alenka Zupancic - What is Sex? Paul Verhaeghe - Does the Woman Exist? Mari Ruti - The Ethics of Opting ...

Stanley Cavell - Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome Sara Ellenbogen - Wittgenstein's Account of Truth Peter Winch - The Idea of a Social Science and I...

I believe it opens to the last comment you've seen in that thread. So if there've been 2 pages of new comments since you last visited a 9 page thread,...

Questions about the so-called 'efficacy' of formal systems of inference mongering I suppose.

People who ask this kind of question tend to forget - or are rather completely unfamiliar with - just how much junk math and junk logic are out there....

There's surprisingly very little written about rhythm from a philosophical perspective - at least, as an explicit theme. One work I really like was Je...

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Yes yes everyone's read M&V. But it doesn't take the sting out of the tail of Levinas' critique.

Cavell on shame: "Shame is the specific discomfort produced by the sense of being looked at, the avoidance of the sight of others is the reflex it pro...

Levinas: "Dasein in Heidegger is never hungry". That's about as brutal a critique of Heidegger that I know. Another might be: Dasein is limbless. Or: ...

Maybe you can say a bit more about the paper and what your take on it is?

§129 This seems like more like rhetorical bluster than anything of conceptual import, much like his grumbling about 'depth' and 'surface' in §111: an ...

Oh its been glorious.

At the point at which you're dealing with fascists, more 'radicalization' - worrying about what's North of the North pole? - is the least of your worr...

Called this out for the unempirical untruth it is long ago. This is just recycled memes at this point. Also consider that perhaps debating a fascist i...

Unfortunately, we don't have a thriving Nazi forum here so no one is entirely sure if the Nazi's were good or bad. In fact there's good reason to beli...

The danger of a data-driven approach is that is misses, by necessity, how changing political and material conditions themselves change the uptake and ...

Did you really just write this? And mean it? 'By not giving them room ... we're giving them room"; How does one go about writing a sentence like this?...

Incidentally one wonders why putting away rapists and murderers does not just "encourage more rape and murder". It's all very holier-than-thou after a...

Your question was about fascism, not Shapiro. And it remains a stupid fucking question. I attacked the liberal grounds that you put forward as an argu...

Also, since you asked, here's a random sampling of the fake dichotomy between speech and violence that worms its way all through your engagements with...

The same way the 17 year old learns that pedophilia and murder are 'not worth considering'. Or would you like to have a nice civil discussion about th...

Quote one line where I advocated 'violence and intimidation through force'.

'Your' objections belong to a multiplex industry of complaining about 'de-platforming' that just is the standard line churned out by any institution o...

Marx.

Simple - the right has coopted liberals into mass hysteria over anything that isn't 'speech'. 'Private political event' is an oxymoron. Politics is di...

I mean look - look at this nonsense choice: The choice that either one 'responds' to Shapiro's words or does not; It's as if the world does not exist;...

Ok beautiful soul.

Fuck off you're sincere. You know my point is negative, you're not a complete incompetent so maybe stop pretending.

Timbre? That's what you got? Ok, good chat.

A corrective. Modest. I don't claim more. In any case not whining about whining about whining about free speech. Want to keep going?

And how do you address that? By whining about free speech?

What things? Speech things, like the liberal thinks? No.

I don't think I addressed this properly so let me try this on: free speech is a class issue, and until it is understood in those terms, liberals will ...

Why not both? Why not protests - if one so wishes - and engagement - if one so wishes? Why not disinvitation and invitation? Why not pressure on spons...

This is all irrelevant. I'm not arguing for censorship, and I'm not arguing for violence, and if you think anything other than speech simply is, or ca...

But this is not a 'defence of free speech' issue: it's a defence of consequences issue. Or at least, its matter of taking speech seriously, of actuall...

Well, sure, between those who abide by the argument and don't: but that's every argument ever.

Do I? In arguing that the liberal appeal to the neutral ground of 'the free and open marketplace of ideas' is bullshit (I'm certain about that), is it...

I've offered no 'ideas', made no claims to political action. I'm attacking an argument. It's informed by a certain understanding (duh), but that's not...

That's a characterization of liberal political ontology, if you like. Must I be committed, somehow (to what?), to make it? Here? Where does fair - or ...

Yeah, because pointing out badly drawn conclusions from badly wrought arguments means I'm not doing politics means... ? I dunno man, I think you're ju...

And the point is anything more than trivial because...?

This might make for a nice riposte to those concerned about their 'looks' and powdered wigs: "A categorical error is made in any media narrative resti...

It's not mine.

One thing I haven't done is 'condone the forceful censoring of Shaprio'. Not because I don't think he should or shouldn't be censored, but because the...

It's worth noting that 'tHe RaDiCaL LeFt CrEaTeD tHe RaDiCaL RiGhT' meme is just another function of the liberal inability to countenance politics bey...