Put it this way: the quality of affect (and affect is nothing but a quality) is determined by (among other things) bodily differentiation, development...
No, this is you projecting again; as is consonant with your Hegelian drive to turn all distinction into opposition and all difference into dichotomy. ...
I guess my most immediate reaction would be: why should there be 'levels of being' at all? To what conceptual exigency does the idea of 'levels of bei...
And what do you think language is if not a (particular kind of) aesthetic phenomenon? To use language is to know-how to employ concepts and words in t...
Yes, because claiming that we are sensate bodies means to "invalidate humanity's roots in the cultural". Seriously, when you're done making shit up, g...
What argument? You have the reading comprehension of a fifth grader who continually extrapolates things I don't say from the tiny snippets of things I...
Ah yes, I must be like those pesky feminists, who, in fighting for the equality of women, must hate all men. The logic is undeniable, thanks Dave. #no...
Who said it was careless? The idea of the Great Chain of Being is possibly among the most philosophically damaging ideas ever espoused. Don't think I ...
Ah yes, because my acerbic off-hand comment about an ancient philosopheme is no different to my position on hierarchies tout court. Methinks you no in...
I don't know if 'appropriation' is the right word - all philosophies lend themselves to certain political emphases over others, and appropriation sugg...
What political appropriation? If you think classical philosophy hasn't had it in for the body, if you think it hasn't constantly and repeatedly devalu...
True :( But at least now not even the science is on the side of the crude materialists; this is manifestly not enough of course, but that we can be ed...
Check out something like Mark Johnston's The Meaning of the Body or Maxine Sheets-Johnston's The Roots of Thinking. Deleuze and Levinas have also writ...
But they are, they really are - just because you don't see it doesn't mean these ideas aren't fucking horrible. I can honestly think of no more morall...
As we've been through elsewhere, I simply don't put all that much stock into this epistemology. I acknowledge it's usefulness - for the sake of scienc...
If by apt you mean the most irreparably destructive and philosophically regressive force of the last 2000 years, then sure. Hiding a noxious resentmen...
If I may, this is why speaking of reductionism in terms of context invariance can be so powerful: it defines a formal interpretive gesture that doesn'...
I dunno, the whole hardware/software/projection just seems like a misplaced metaphor to me. It's not useful to speculate upon just-so stories like tha...
Most definitions of reductionism are terrible, and tend to resolve into some sort of useless tautology; "reductionism means that everything can be red...
Yes, this is what we discussed, remember? Entropy plays necessity to the contingencies of asymmetries. You were asking after what could account for ne...
I confess, I don't know what it would even mean to say that 'asymmerty and entropy are the same'. Asymmetry is a characteristic of material states (a ...
This is not quite it. Think of entropy as a very general - perhaps the most general - imperative: "things need to get from here (inhomogeneous distrib...
The most basic answer is that asymmetry means that things will clump together in ways that will accelerate more clumping - hence the formation of loca...
It's not even that genes can be 'turned on and off'; it's that even when they are 'on' they can do 'different stuff'. In some ways, even speaking abou...
This is true, but it paints a misleading picture of the complexity of gene expression. First of all, the process of gene expression is multi-final. Th...
It's one of the more counterintuitive facts when it comes to entropy, but the idea is actually quite simple: local negentropy accelerates - and thus i...
This is a point well taken, and I appreciate you pointing it out. That said, the only way I know how to make sense of a telos in this 'third' sense yo...
Most accounts - 'the future' is already here: they've already been written! People just need to read them! - begin with Kant's third critique, where h...
I agree with your point about Dawkins (his gene-centrism irks me to no end!), but I only mention him to show that even the most hardcore of old-school...
No, I simply imagine that the facts of nature don't care for the whims and fancies of 'cultural alterations' and 'prevailing views'. If not Jablonka a...
It's not at all startling if you're versed in some of the more recent developments in evolutionary theory. That evolution is simply a matter of 'rando...
One way to think about this is to make the distinction between teleology and teleonomy. The difference is between a telos which is in some way 'pre-ex...
What are 'deterministic causes' even supposed to mean? As distinct from 'non-deterministic causes'? Just another example of why your OP seems so confu...
Hmm, the discussion on this thread seems confused so far. Here's an attempt to clear things up. There are at least three sources (but not only three) ...
The average thing? Surely the 'average thing' can be a lot more than subject or object? Perhaps 'the average thing' is a movement, a threat, an enviro...
Ya - perhaps it's just semantics, but I've always been more of a 'rejig metaphysics' guy than a 'destroy it' kinda guy. This is a good point actually,...
Yeah, this is kind of where I wanted this discussion to head actually - the 'objective', even today I think, remains profoundly correlated with 'subje...
@Mongrel: Yeah, Heidegger was one of the few modern scholars who understood this quite well I think, which is one of the reasons he so studiously avoi...
Ha, I see where you're coming from but there's a darker side to abundance than 'joie de vivre' which the Lingis quote doesn't quite get across - think...
Interestingly, fatigue, as a physiological condition, is a kind of regulative emotion that sets in to protect the body from overexertion: it is a kind...
Yeah L&J's 'Metaphors We Live By' is one of the books I'm planning to pick up. That said, part of what's at stake in the OP is the idea that there is ...
Jack Reynolds's Chronopathologies: Time and Politics in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy, and Phenomenology is a well written, synoptic look at v...
Finally started on this, and my first, quick impression is that Haugeland is trying to perform a phenomenological reduction of patterns, suspending th...
@"csalisbury" Heh, not really, not at this point anyway, because I still feel like I'm learning things that I hadn't known before, and that I'm still ...
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