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Yes, not only do I appreciate how your view leads to this shift, but that's precisely what I'm trying to hone in on. Like Von Neumann's measuring tool...
November 05, 2016 at 03:26
I guess this is my sticking point - maybe I'm not thinking about it the right way - but if we're talking about a theory of everything (or something th...
November 04, 2016 at 18:38
Thanks, that was exactly the type of answer I was hoping for, gonna digest.
November 04, 2016 at 02:15
It wasn't about you being stubborn and close-minded and unable to paint with all the colors of the wind. It wasn't nature/machine but stasis/dynamism....
November 04, 2016 at 00:17
buuut apo, I still don't understand where i levied an 18th century romantic stance othering you as 'mechanistic.' You keep insisting that's what I'm d...
November 03, 2016 at 23:14
No, I mean I understand the broad difference between mechanic and organic (teleology) and I think anyone who's spent much time on this board has been ...
November 03, 2016 at 21:58
Yeah, same, it confused me at first and now it just bugs me. It's pretty clear that, for Nietzsche, the eternal return is a thought experiment which s...
November 03, 2016 at 18:49
If I understand Deleuze correctly ( I'm talking chapter II of DR here) time itself is a kind of traumatic aftershock, the effect of a disrupted equili...
November 03, 2016 at 06:28
@"apokrisis" could you also maybe shine some light on what you mean by 'mathematical' and 'rigorous'? Generally, when you use these words on the board...
November 03, 2016 at 04:32
I don't see you - or your sources - as enemies so I don't feel compromised by playing on your field, by your rules. As to the worldview I'm confidentl...
November 03, 2016 at 04:16
Why 'alternatively'? I don't understand the natural sciences in their broad sweep, but I'm open to the idea that you may. Whatever leads to the model,...
November 03, 2016 at 02:17
@"apokrisis" *stands up nervously and accepts the mike from the emcee* I haven't read peirce or prigogine and i don't know much about biosemiotics, sy...
November 03, 2016 at 00:36
"Laying claim is not one phenomenon among others, but the nature of every phenomenon." p.62 I guess, if you wanna go whole-hog immanentist, that the m...
November 02, 2016 at 07:12
The thing with chapter 1 of Difference & Repetition, though, is that, in it, the concept of selection isn't just a matter of metaphysical methodology....
November 02, 2016 at 06:38
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/30/magazine/adam-curtis-documentaries.html
October 31, 2016 at 04:21
Butting in here, but I'm in total agreement with this point - what I've experienced in my few 'mystical' moments had a certainty that is, literally, i...
October 25, 2016 at 23:53
I like the idea of sedimentation, but I'd like to understand it better. Not far into Time Consciousness but it feels like retention is less a razor's ...
October 22, 2016 at 05:44
It is a good vision - though I think there might actually be something to Barry Etheridge's wild claim that there's nothing here that hadn't already b...
October 22, 2016 at 02:54
I agree, btw, that retention for Husserl doesn't extend into the distant past, but I think it kinda does in a deep psychological ot even spiritual way...
October 21, 2016 at 23:10
I think I'm gonna dig into the time-consciousness book a bit - I think Husserl's own account goes against rentention being strictly perceptual, in the...
October 21, 2016 at 23:06
So yes, I agree with what you've said, and these cases are interesting snd complicate any account of time --but Husserl uses music and past notes to i...
October 21, 2016 at 19:32
It seems important, though, that in these examples, you are already familiar with the piece. Again the as if is interesting here.
October 21, 2016 at 18:16
Back to retention then: It seems implausible to me. It's easy to imagine hearing a note out of the blue, but, again, a dominant is relational. There i...
October 21, 2016 at 15:44
This makes the case excellently that Husserl cannot really mean 'perception' in the traditional sense, but that he simply is using the term to differe...
October 21, 2016 at 14:52
thanks for the respose - presidential debate is starting and im watching out of morbid curiosity but ill respond after the carnage finishes
October 20, 2016 at 01:04
Stick up for yourself! I stand by my criticisms, but you had something to say about other ways of looking at similar themes. I don't think there's any...
October 20, 2016 at 00:46
It's hard to answer this because I don't see the difference between the two alternatives. A note is not dominant in-and-of-itself, but only by relatio...
October 20, 2016 at 00:34
I'm as confused as you are about 'porno' getting into the convo, why'd you bring it up?
October 20, 2016 at 00:25
I have no animosity toward your tradition - in fact I have a lot of sympathy - but the packaging of it as an alternative is strange if you dont know w...
October 20, 2016 at 00:11
if theres one lesson to be learned from this thread, its that 5 or 6 people who appear to have read almost no 'pomo' literature have very strong feeli...
October 19, 2016 at 23:58
That's fair and I do agree that a strong narrative is a good way of organizing scattered facts and events in order to gain some real insight (provided...
October 19, 2016 at 22:27
I've seen a few of his other films, I was into him a lot as an undergrad. The problem is I don't get the sense that the narrator of any Curtis film ha...
October 19, 2016 at 20:32
lol
October 19, 2016 at 19:44
I agree and I definitely think he's a cut above many others --buuut, he's still, ironically, guilty of drastic oversimplification - he gets rid of the...
October 19, 2016 at 19:36
I think, though, that he's trying not to say that the sign, as opposed to presence, is the concept of the origin, but that the sign undermines the con...
October 19, 2016 at 19:10
I like the idea of Derrida 'inhabiting' Husserl, and I also read V&P that way at the beginning (I called it the 'sussing out of the text's immanent lo...
October 19, 2016 at 18:58
But take that music example. If we're listening to a piece that began with the tonic, and has moved on to the dominant - in what sense is the tonic 't...
October 19, 2016 at 18:36
a simpler way to put that last point: If Husserl himself, in later works, undermines that distinction and admits it, then its pointless to try to unde...
October 19, 2016 at 05:42
I actually sympathize with that Land quote a whole bunch (tho Land himself scares me a lot. He was too smart for his own good and went too deep down a...
October 19, 2016 at 05:14
Well first, the very idea of doing something in a single moment already strikes me as viewing things through an artificial lens. Any action I can thin...
October 19, 2016 at 05:07
! But the way you're using 'perceptive' here is precisely Derrida's point when he says, apropos of Husserl characterizing retention as 'perceptive' im...
October 19, 2016 at 04:18
But I'm not talking about expectations you explicitly call to mind (imagining meeting a friend tomorrow, anticipating traffic during the morning commu...
October 19, 2016 at 04:15
It doesn't seem that contentious to me. I find it very difficult to imagine an experience where I'm not implicitly anticipating what's to come. It's n...
October 19, 2016 at 03:54
I've honestly kind of lost the plot - sometimes it all seems to hold together, for a second, but then I lose it. All I have, at this point, is somethi...
October 19, 2016 at 02:26
haha, its tough being a statue of a maine lobsterman
October 17, 2016 at 02:56
But what looks like a hand on the chin is actually a hand holding a cigarette! Close enough?
October 17, 2016 at 02:43
https://s22.postimg.org/u3jiq6egx/Screen_Shot_2016_10_16_at_10_31_48_PM.png Doing my best French douche.
October 17, 2016 at 02:35
yeah but he's wearing a leather jacket like a big old douche
October 17, 2016 at 02:25
Somewhere or other Cioran wrote about his experience of seeing Beckett on a parkbench and feeling deep envy at how much more Beckett exuded suffering....
October 17, 2016 at 02:16
haaaa, that sweater article couldn't be more perfect here.
October 17, 2016 at 02:01