It's been a while since I've posted but to echo your last point, I read an illuminating series of Essays from Jacques Ranciere early this year..."Hatr...
Because, as the vulgar meme states, change Muslim to Jew or Islam to Judaism and see if your rhetoric seems nazi-ish... It's pretty telling in some ca...
Moreover the fact that Cartesian doubt founders on its own petard and is only "saved" by a ludicrous "proof" for god's existence. Descartes is a great...
Nor can I understand comparing a toad like Trump to Alexander the Great, Marcus Aurelius, Martin Luther King Jr. nor Gandhi... I guess that makes us e...
That does not follow at all Agustino. Geniuses, or those so considered, are only so considered after their demise. You cannot possibly estimate a pers...
The irony being that Brassier owes much of his current popularity in no small part due to pop culture and the Internet. I feel though in part, you gre...
To be honest, good philosophy outside of academia is literary. With few exceptions, non-academics will never be published in academic journals. That d...
Vitriol aside, I do think that Brassier has a point. When speaking of the hard sciences, usually in hushed tones, people would never really expect tha...
Well, I know that I haven't had much interaction with you here or back at the old place, but I have always felt that the topics that you developed wer...
I am not Pneumenon, I was merely speculating on what he may mean by the Hofstdter's disease comment. Personally, I do find his work mostly pop. sci. I...
Simple, Hofstadter is a good writer but all of his work seems to be pop. sci. kind of work. It's accessible but usually very shallow. Like most of Pin...
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