Yeah, I made a small edit to the post you quoted. But yeah, in the main you're right. I guess I just see alot of wasted potential there, as it were. T...
I think so too. My immediate feelings are both of pity and admiration; pity because these poor fools are being used by powers who would not give a fly...
This isn't a question that can be answered in the abstract. How effectively for what purpose? In the capacity of what role in action? Language works -...
/uploads/resized/files/pr/by2sfoa7l11w775g.jpg All that powerful, revolutionary energy. Channelled into defending a plutocrat like Trump. What an utte...
Trump would watch these people get shot by capitol cops and laugh as they do. These poor wretches are defending a man who wouldn't give a flying fuck ...
Sure. The CIA must be rather upset right now. Only they get to orchastrate attempted violent coups against democratically elected governments in overe...
There is of course, nothing inherently wrong with people storming capitol buildings to kick out shitty governments. When this happens in other, browne...
Ellen Meiksins Wood - Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Albert O. Hirschman - The Rhe...
No, because even such an expressive use of language is still a technique, it responds and is constituted by imperatives of communication - grammar key...
But this is simply not true. Language is, first and foremost (although not only) a technology of social coordination; it's value is not (primarily) co...
No, this is exactly what I am not doing. Precisely because the self cannot be isolated in some pristine self-enclosed splendour, the idea that iterati...
Sure, iterabiltiy is a general schema that bears upon a 'one' no less than literally anything else. Nothing in Derrida warrants some kind of 'exclusiv...
Then you've misread him to a significant degree. Nothing in Derrida's texts - and certainly nothing in the quote you've provided - 'limits' iterabilit...
I have to admit that this is utterly bewildering to me coming from someone who claims Derrida to be an inspiration. Can you not see that you're trying...
This is all well and good, but at stake here is how this bears upon language. You want to leverage this confusion - which I agree exists - to argue th...
In which case you fall back into the initial objection of imagining an 'intimacy' so intimate that it is indistinguishable from a solipsism. As for pr...
This doesn't matter at all, and moreover, it is not clear what it even means to speak of people 'understanding in exactly the same way' or not - as if...
You cannot consistently make these two claims. Either there is no public ("derived abstraction"), or 'interpersonal communication is secondary and der...
In Wittgenstein's use of the term, the answer is an emphatic yes: this is absolutely a public language. What makes a public language public is it's av...
I have a great deal to say about the OP, against which I profoundly disagree, but I'll settle for now for making just this one remark: this 'deconstru...
:up: To take it seriously - to even argue against it - is already to concede that one is speaking to someone with any standing whatsoever. These fuckw...
On my feed... /uploads/resized/files/44/c7lsgjiwdztxh5i3.jpg (Bit generous about the fact that Clinton actively angled to have Trump as her opponent b...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/04/julian-assange-cannot-be-extradited-to-us-british-judge-rules Good news! You can report on American war ...
https://eand.co/why-freedom-became-free-dumb-in-america-4947e39663f2 This article is childish and understates by far the shallow, callous, conservatis...
Gotta say, I'm surprised at the outpouring of coverage over the recordings. Like - did anyone expect anything different? I keep saying - the only moro...
Via Corey Robin: "On the "Trump completely controls the GOP" claims... So I've been closely following Congress's overriding Trump's veto on the defens...
You gotta quote this stuff man: "But if focus is primarily placed on name calling Trump or other luminaries of the current anti-liberal backlash, the ...
Happy New Year to all :) Just remember: it's not that 2020 was a bad year. It's that capitalism sucks and has stopped trying to hide the fact that you...
Trump will not be held to account, ever. Unless you fuck kids, the rich and powerful do not turn their backs on their own. Class solidarity 101. Besid...
Having spent so long on Anti-Oedipus i can honestly say that unless you're interested in the minutiae of psychoanalysis, it's honestly not worth it. T...
To establish the existence of the self, as every first year philosophy student knows. The 'nature' of the self in question is simply irrelevant for th...
The same way that the radio plays music is different from the radio station playing music. But it really doesn't matter. The point is that for Descart...
:up: On my last books too. This year was really interesting. 56 books. Probably among my most diverse list in terms of authors and subject matter. Sli...
Perfect time to remind everyone that Joe Biden was directly responsible for ensuring that students remain trapped in debt and promoting the birth of a...
Ha, I remember that. 11 months ago, before Trump allowed ~250k Americans - at the time of the election - to die of Covid. A gift for Biden. The democr...
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