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I say no tears seen or shed, I remember seeing a grief selfie uploaded to a friend's Facebook tombstone. Because taking a picture of her tears and sho...

There's some prescient news relating to this, the Cambridge Analytics + Facebook thing. Surprising no one, Facebook's data on people was sold and pass...

It's less about whether it's moral in an absolute sense and more about whether and how long you could live with yourself while doing it. If you wouldn...

it really does work like that, the pupil stuff.

Touching your partner in some way expresses some thoughts to them. A lot what's expressed has word labels but there isn't a translation between speech...

Introspection reveals to someone that some of their thoughts can be expressed in words. Not that all such thoughts can be expressed in words. It isn't...

"It's just a social construct" in meme form is sophomoric bollocks. Find me one example of anyone you're throwing under bus trying to say something is...

hey, uh, are we the postmodern neomarxist academic left dominating courageous intellectual dissent against our pompous and overly verbose whining?

I don't think we've decided what to do with people who intentionally subvert the filter yet. ;)

Whether Marx is unfalsifiable depends on how he's interpreted. You can look at things like Andrew Kliman's 'The Failure of Capitalist Production' to f...

Then why elevate criticism of people using bastardisations of theory in incoherent ways to criticisms of the theory? I'm with you insofar as people re...

Where can I find that list to review it?

All of this is rubbish: anything in the intellectual tradition of Marxism in any sense any critique which distills oppressors and oppressive groups wi...

It's more often a rhetorical strategy to delegitimise a movement. Especially since, when taken at face value, it literally makes no sense. Yeah. I'm p...

I probably am taking a lot for granted. Though, I don't see the point in chasing ghosts. You should really check out Roderick's lectures!

(22,23) My bolding. I bolded it because I think this is a statement of the nihilating power of the spectacle - that it produces holes in our social fa...

I'm glad it seems I've generated some interest in it. :) My book's translation of 21 is a little different in the first sentence, and I believe a good...

Time for more schizoid ranting. Word of warning, those who don't already speak Marxist will find these notes more difficult. The theological overtones...

I think we can agree that someone trying to represent a social movement, in the sense of stealing its voice for their own valorisation, is a bad thing...

It isn't really my two system approach, it's Daniel Kahnneman's . I prefer it a lot to any analysis of the unconscious for a few reasons: (1) The unco...

I'm not sure the unconscious makes much sense as a critical category when the private/public distinction is being undermined. I think about this in te...

I think you're confusing the scope of structural properties. On the level of a society, certain groups will probably have more advantages afforded to ...

I had more notes on 18 and 19 I forgot to put down. The fractionalisation of social life inherent in the spectacle produces strangers and intimacy muc...

I think that generating shared, factual narratives is rendered very difficult by 'the spectacle'. It isn't so much that the science has stopped workin...

A fictitious world with present day journalism and its news cycles alone would recede in much the same way. By isolating a point of our social fabric ...

To provide some positive character to identity politics, I think it's politics characterised as: representation without goals; raised consciousness of...

I didn't believe that the examples I gave could be accurately described as identity politics, save perhaps how gay marriage was strategised. The point...

Regardless of theoretical confusions; when you see something like gays banding together for gay marriage to be a thing, people advocating for and sett...

You just described an incredibly heterogenous bunch of.. well.. everything. Absolutely not worth aggregating them into a coherent whole... They aren't...

So which examples of identity politics do you think of as irredeemable rubbish and why, then?

While this may have been true at publication, the present is a little different. What now is more valued than a close friend or life partner? An inver...

(13) The idea of the spectacle as a representational model of social processes; simultaneously their reflection and determination is present here agai...

(10->12) It seems appropriate to locate 'the spectacle' as a social mechanism, at least insofar as its surface appearance. In a sense the spectacle is...

(1,2) This unification takes an extreme form within the social practice/construct of 'Netflix and chill', in which the most intimate union of a couple...

I feel as though the idea that there could be virtue in it is some projection from an un-oppressed out group. That the meek will inherit the Earth mak...

Do you think there's something inherently spectacular - as in spectacle - about identity politics? Your description of it seems to paint consciousness...

I vaguely remember that you see all politics as identity politics.

So you see class politics as an example of identity politics?

In addition to being empirically wrong, as Sapshin highlighted, what you said doesn't even have the concepts right. Western Maoists, Leninists etc... ...

Bucolic. Sounds very sinister, means pleasantly rural.

Any resistance to the unfolding of nature is done within its scope. An insight from De Sade. He thus had all kinds of fun with the idea of natural law...

What would a sufficient description of 'how a mind works' in general be? I imagine that there would need to be a few elements, will make some kind of ...

I don't think he did - at least he hasn't yet, if you're referring to the video I recently uploaded.

Harris/Peterson debate was painful, I think the criticism that they were both out of their field of expertise; or at least out of their fields of prep...

Forgot this gem, addressed to Peterson.

One of the bloggers on the Partially Examined Life made an extended critique really hitting home Peterson's poor scholarship as far as anything 'postm...

Understood. I asked because I imagined you'd have thought about it quite a lot and would have a unique/interesting perspective - of all the people her...

@"unenlightened" Do you ever use any scientific results or ways of thinking to inform your people-handling part of the job? (IIRC you work in medical ...

They're task specific AIs in each case, almost certainly. I find the 'deep marketing' very scary and intrusive.

I referenced chess because I thought it was intended to be a casual/not particularly philosophical discussion. The staggering power of neural networks...