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by d63
Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:31 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 2/17/2023: In Dosse’s biography of Deleuze and Guattari, I came across a reframing of several concepts I was previously familiar with: “consciousness of something” (the phenomenological understanding associated with intentionality and Husserl) and “consciousness as something” which...
by d63
Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:02 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Postcards:
Replies: 21
Views: 14241

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It’s like I’ve always said: I always base the value of the work of another on what I can use. And by that standard, one of the more interesting articles I came across in the latest issue of Philosophy Now is the interview of Nat Rutherford whose primary focus is on the relationship between happiness...
by d63
Fri Sep 30, 2022 10:35 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary: During my immersion in Rorty and the current stage with Heidegger and Other Essays, I’ve struggled with his (via Heidegger: ontological/ontic distinction. However, today I finally got it and (as often happens with philosophy: felt like an idiot. It pretty much came down to another distin...
by d63
Sun Jun 05, 2022 11:35 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 6/5/2022: Once again, I come up against one of the main obstacles to my process: a lack of confidence in my own process (my own ability to analyze and say something legit about the reality I face (without a full understanding of what the established icons of theory have said. I wen...
by d63
Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:51 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
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Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 6/3/2022: Only one ½ hour into my immersion into Buchanan’s Fredric Jameson: Live Theory and, already, I’ve discovered a major oversight on my part. I had recently pointed to the changes in content that occurred in cinema due to the development of color film: the way it initially c...
by d63
Thu Jun 02, 2022 11:28 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
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Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 6/2/2022: I have, before, brought up Coleridge’s distinction between Fancy (that which naturally flows through the mind and is usually, if not always, based on wish-fulfillment – even when it is negative in nature when it comes to perceived threats coming from the other: think Mexi...
by d63
Tue May 31, 2022 3:21 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 5/30/2022: I recently confessed to Ian Buchanan that it took me about 4 to 5 readings of his reader's guide to Anti-Oedipus to get a reasonable understanding of what he was describing which, in hindsight, may have been kind of an insult -that is given his goal of giving people an a...
by d63
Fri May 27, 2022 11:47 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 5/27/2022: Having followed Buchanan’s lead and dived into Fredric Jameson’s Marxism and Form, I find myself frustrated to the extent that I’m not that familiar with the thinkers and books he is critiquing: Adorno, Lukacs, Benjamin, Bloch, and Marcuse (although I’m acquainted w/ One...
by d63
Sat May 21, 2022 2:41 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 5/20/2022: Buchanan points out, in Fredric James: Live Theory, that Jameson’s primary method of operation was dialectical criticism (or what I would call dialectical critique). This is further described as something that, in order to be authentic, that must administer a shock or fe...
by d63
Sat May 14, 2022 11:32 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 5/14/2022: Reading Jameson, I'm starting to think that we might achieve a little more clarity if we (as Voltaire advises: define our terms and make a distinction between critique as theory practices it and criticism as it is generally practiced. Critique, it seems to me, is about b...
by d63
Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:22 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 4/16/2022: In the words of Kyle from South Park: I learned something today. I learned that, according to fractal geometry, many systems that are immediately accessible to us are the composite effect of subsystems that follow patterns very similar to the composite effect of what we ...
by d63
Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:38 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 4/14/2022: As I immerse myself in my graphic guide Introducing Fractals (the kind of thing I read when I have a lot of stuff that needs to be done around the house since it doesn’t require the kind of commitment that hardcore theory does), I’m finding a lot of my initial impulses a...
by d63
Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:35 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 4/7/2022: I recently subscribed (via Philosophy Now (to The New Humanist. And one of the extras I got out of it was Roy Speckhardt’s book Creating Change Through Humanism. And reading it, it clearly feels like a manifesto –most of which (if not all of which (I agree with. At the sa...
by d63
Sat Apr 02, 2022 11:42 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Postcards:
Replies: 21
Views: 14241

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As I have pointed out before, Lacanian Jouissance (as Žižek points out extensively throughout his writings (is ubiquitous throughout human experience in its recognition of the deep and intimate relationship between pleasure and displeasure. To summarize Lacan: when having sex we experience pleasure ...
by d63
Thu Mar 17, 2022 11:24 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Dear Diary Moments:
Replies: 80
Views: 28770

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Dear Diary Moment 3/17/2022: One of the things I got from my immersion in Buchanan’s book on Jameson is the distinction between philosophy and theory –that is even though theory can be considered an extension of philosophy. While philosophy tends to focus on the basic issues concerning human existen...