EmanuelaOrlandi posted:
FAGGOTS.

quoting in case of edit

mistersix posted:

germanjoey posted:
SOMOENE MAKE A REALLY GREAT POST THAT MAKES ME EXCITED TO MAKE A GREAT POST IN RETURN

"soon" i will have a series of excursus in the phenomenology thread. ive got the hard part, the titles, mapped out in my head. now i just need to develop the associated content

i stole a Big Book O' Heidegger the other day and soon i will inundate your thread with dumb questions + opinions

deadken posted:
i stole a Big Book O' Heidegger the other day and soon i will inundate your thread with dumb questions + opinions

cool what book is it

deadken posted:
ive been reading a lot of foucault recently and i find him perfectly accessible + comprehensible, i dont really get all the fuss

9 out of 10 chomskys agree

deadken posted:
ive been reading a lot of foucault recently and i find him perfectly accessible + comprehensible, i dont really get all the fuss

well, u see, he says a lot of implicitly bad things about capitalism and dominant ruling structures sooooo whats this french faggot saying cant understand him i see his mouth movin but all i can think of is cocks in it ahahahah see ya later sucker

deadken posted:
francis wheen has this book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World in which as well as discussing various new age nonsense he also singles out deleuze as an exemplar of pomo nonsense, a point he supports with extracts from a thousand plateaus that he claims dont make any sense, and im just like 'if you just quoted bits from the middle of a scientific paper with no contextual information to a lay audience it wouldnt make any sense either, damn.' the myth of theoretical inscrutability is really weird, everyone expects advanced mathematics to not be instantly comprehensible but for some reason philosophy has to be written at a primary school level otherwise its worthless

Wheen is a signatory to the Euston Manifesto and was a close friend of the late Christopher Hitchens. He is not an admirer of Noam Chomsky, although they share an interest in the values of the Age of Enlightenment.

lmao. the euston manifesto was embarrassingly liberal & vague pro-war iirc. i wonder how terrible his biographies on marx and capital are

babyfinland posted:
harman has a lot of critics and according to them his reading of heidegger is supposed to be reductive and idiosyncratic

yeah i figured it might be, his big thing is "object oriented philosophy" and theres this ominous bit from wikipedia:
Taking the tool-analysis as the defining moment in twentieth-century philosophy, Harman finds in Heidegger the roots of a metaphysics of things which does justice to the autonomous existence of objects.

but i have acquired the book so we'll see. my suspicion is that its going to be heavily tilted toward the dreyfusserian baseballs-and-hammers focus at the expense of everything else

deadken posted:
francis wheen has this book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World in which as well as discussing various new age nonsense he also singles out deleuze as an exemplar of pomo nonsense, a point he supports with extracts from a thousand plateaus that he claims dont make any sense, and im just like 'if you just quoted bits from the middle of a scientific paper with no contextual information to a lay audience it wouldnt make any sense either, damn.' the myth of theoretical inscrutability is really weird, everyone expects advanced mathematics to not be instantly comprehensible but for some reason philosophy has to be written at a primary school level otherwise its worthless

Yeah um the difference is that mathematics gives us planes and cars and bridges and philosophy gives us genocide and concentration camps

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

deadken posted:
francis wheen has this book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World in which as well as discussing various new age nonsense he also singles out deleuze as an exemplar of pomo nonsense, a point he supports with extracts from a thousand plateaus that he claims dont make any sense, and im just like 'if you just quoted bits from the middle of a scientific paper with no contextual information to a lay audience it wouldnt make any sense either, damn.' the myth of theoretical inscrutability is really weird, everyone expects advanced mathematics to not be instantly comprehensible but for some reason philosophy has to be written at a primary school level otherwise its worthless

Yeah um the difference is that mathematics gives us planes and cars and bridges and philosophy gives us genocide and concentration camps

so then would you classify science as part of philosophy, which has corrupted pristine math for its own horrible ends? sort of a neo-pythagoreanism?

getfiscal posted:
i tried to start an ironic smash mouth punk cover band in high school because i thought it'd be funny to go around to punk shows and be like yeah we're REALLY into smash mouth

4 dudes, 2 bass guitars, a drum machine and smash mouth tabs dled from ultimate-guitar.com