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Have you considered asking said person? Might seem rude if you didn't, is all.

I found out one of my favourite artists and watercolor illustrators, Qing Han (Qinniart) died today. I'm weirdly pretty fucking sad about it, probably...

I think I mostly agree with this, but here's the case I want to make: in gallery conditions, where the artwork is already so alienated and displaced f...

A work of art 'speaks for itself'... I do not understand what this is supposed to mean, nor how it provides a reason for the former. At best, it seems...

But in many ways I think this is right too. Art in a gallery is already compromised in some way; an artist statement does function - or is made to fun...

This isn't a proper argument either. Why should an artwork 'speak for itself'? Why it is 'not worthy of anyone's time' if it requires an explanation? ...

Everything you think are detrimental about artists statements, I think are positives, basically. I think the so-called 'purity' you're after is a myth...

Sure, I can agree with this. But that's the thing, not supplying a statement is fine too. That too, 'says' something. The isolated warehouse artwork a...

At the contemporary art museum in town, they sometimes have two statements. Your standard one, along with one for kids. I adore the ones for kids. It'...

Ah. Policing art in the name of not letting art be policed. Very good.

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=34191831628526077764 Searchable and copyable PDF, as promised. I'd love to read Anscombe's 'Under a Description' a...

Ian Buchanan - Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: A Readers Guide Eugene Holland - Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: An Introduction to Schizoana...

:grin: She was also, I believe, a student of his, as in, she was thought by him, face to face. As well as one of his literary executors after his deat...

I'll link to one when I get home tonight.

You're... dead?

I hope all those who got their panties in a twist over the show trial that was 'impeachment' can now move on and actually give a shit about things tha...

This seems right to me.

Yeah, like, why do we need a philosophy of psychology to do moral philosophy? She just kind lays that out there, and I don't understand why.

I agree with - or think I do - everything you said right up until the bit I bolded. The unbolded seems authorized by the text; the bolded seems far mo...

Babies are very much the perfect atheists. For them, the question of God(s) - like every other question of course - is simply unintelligible. As it sh...

Ellen Meiksins Wood on why capitalist democracy is a bit shit: "In capitalist democracy, the separation between civic status and class position operat...

Hm, which passages do you have in mind that give warrant to this reading?

Yeah that's fair. I won't puruse this too far but I agree that providing more of the bits she says that should be provided doesn't necessarily block a...

Anyway, a small commentary on the structure of the (early sections) of the paper. It seems to be something like this: (1) Quick survey (and dismissal)...

Perhaps; but even that would need a philosophical account of why virtue functions extraphilosophically (a meditation on philosophy and its limits, fro...

It's interesting that this paper is so commonly associated with the revival of virtue ethics; there's definite warrant for it - it is even perhaps it'...

Anscombe's paper "On Brute Facts" is quite useful to read here as supplementary, at least to the awful passage about brute facts I quoted earlier. It'...

Man I hate the way Anscombe writes. I read Intention last year and it was a terrible experience, and this reminds me why. Like, this is such incredibl...

I have been wanting to read this essay for years so yes.

The story is apocryphal. It's likely that Hippasus was not in fact drowned for his discovery, and the Greek response was simply to exclude irrationals...

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Lol you think Wayfarer reads books and not blurbs.

Oh, him. I was too flabbergasted by the title and the content to read who actually wrote the damn thing lol. But yeah, that makes total sense. And Cha...

"Here then, is the basic difference between all pre-capitalist societies and capitalism. It has nothing to do with whether production is urban or rura...

I saw this in the Atlantic and actually laughed out loud. They're fucking terrified, and it's hilarious. The article itself is mind-bending too: it co...

I missed this thread. This is great.

Yeah nah definately woo invoked by our resident woo oil salesman.

A part of me very wants to strongly characterize analytic philosophy as a long, enduring attempt - still ongoing - to come to grips with its own still...

Whaddya reckon btw?

I suppose an alternative distinction - if one must be made - would be analytic/synthetic.

The two things that stand out to me I guess are that: (1) Any way to formulate falsifiability will need to include some kind of modal word - can, shou...

Ah. Silly ache.

It's not right because the indefinite article should be 'a' not 'an', given that 'hypothesis' does not begin with a vowel. But, uh, otherwise, seems r...

You're actually so fucking stupid. Fuck. You think the Germans murdered the Jews because they didn't look like them? Based on 'phenotype'? Fuck you're...

Look, here's an analogous argument to the OP: "Without the sun, there would be no people. With no people, there would be no racism. Therefore, the sun...

I'm going to keep repeating this until it seeps into your head: Racism is premised on differences deemed signifiant and not difference simpliciter. Th...

I'd advise you to look at the video that @"fdrake" posted. You're writing on things you seem quite ignorant about and you ought to inform yourself bef...

I'm not interested in having a biology vs. culture debate. The claim in the OP is that the mere fact of being able to recognize difference implies tha...

I didn't say genetic differences, so thank you for your otherwise entirely useless reply.

Still have no idea what you're on about.