Christopher DeWolf - Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong A strangely perfect follow-up to my Invisible Committee reads. Perha...
It's a disgrace and an everlasting wound of shame. Our government - and the majority of the people they represent - will do nothing, and I don't know ...
Dude, he literally freeze-frames the line "The dynamic relationship between individuals and social systems is what makes social life happen" in big bo...
We barely mustered the political will to express our desire to treat a subsection of our population with a bit of human dignity. New Zealand will come...
It's in the growing precarity of the labour force, the dwindling growth of workers incomes, the systematic dismantling of labour laws, the offshoring ...
The thing is, the real problem isn't that the 1% own a disproportionate amount of wealth - as disgusting as it is. It's that that wealth is used to en...
One thing that ought to be questioned is the very desirability of 'escape': if our attachment to society is the very condition of our individuality (a...
One confusion that seems to have arisen in this thread (exemplified by @"charleton"'s post), is that at stake is a simple displacement of agency from ...
Yes to everything you said! That said, the need to attend 'outwards' to the social doesn't entail a wholesale disregard for belief and intention, but ...
The very dichotomous categories by which you frame your reading of the video - in terms of 'society' against the 'individual', 'community' against the...
But Zizek's point is that the authenticity of those who carry out genocides is anything but 'faux': it's the real deal. The point is that 'authenticit...
But whats the point of an 'authentic consciousness' (a phrase which I'm afraid reeks of romantic moralism for me) in a society which can make neither ...
But I don't see an either-or relation here: we are individuals to the extent that we belong to a 'system', or rather a series of systems that generall...
I think this is absolutely the case, and moreover, I think context is exactly what is lost in the reactionary responses like that of the OP article an...
Apologist trash. "Oh yes he treated you horribly, and placed you in a terrible position, but it wasn't assault though, so why is everyone making such ...
The entailment here is not this clear cut at all: that one has a right to the security of persons can equally translate into a right not to be surroun...
But this is just textbook circular reasoning with a bit of begging the question thrown in. It might as well read: "Imagine a universe where one can do...
Ah yes, I remember fondly the passages of Voltaire in which he proclaimed the human right to own guns; the eloquence of D'alembert in his passionate d...
The MeToo campaign is not without its limits, but who said that it was ever meant to be about sexual assault, strictly defined? It always seemed to me...
It should also be noted that it's a sign of absolute philosophical failure when discussion about perception glibly slides into discussion about 'exper...
"The injunction, everywhere, to "be someone" maintains the pathological state that makes this society necessary. The injunction to be strong produces ...
How can anyone take seriously the immediate recourse to fantasies of civil war and fairy tale comparisons to the Nazi state? As if these are the probl...
Personally I've never understood the coherence of 'quietism': it seems to me that any claim to what we can and cannot say must itself be grounded in a...
Because difference is all that matters when trying to determine regularity. I should not have spoken of synchronicity, which seems to have misled you....
You misunderstand: it's the difference between periods which must be constant to show that both pendulums swing at a regular interval. The actual freq...
You can use your eyes, for one. Or more precise apparatuses if avaliable or necessary. But this is a question of experimental design, not principle. A...
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