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Dear Diary Moment 10/9/2021: Am presently reading the latest edition of New Philosopher. And today I came across Patrick Stokes’ “To Boldly Go and Not Come back”. It basically brought me back to the Philosophy 101 conundrum of the teleportation problem: that once you are disassembled for sake of tra...

Dear Diary Moment 10/1/2021: I’ve been dealing with, for some time now, Deleuze's conceptual dyad of common and good sense -both of which he is clearly critical of. Now common sense seemed pretty easy to get a grip on in that the word "common" suggests that it is about a way of thinking (t...

Dear Diary Moment 9/26/2021: This week on Real Time, Bill Maher talked to Tristan Harris who is apparently part of some kind of watchdog group as concerns social media. Harris revealed that Facebook had flagrantly utilized an algorithm that pushed posts that managed to generate more conflict because...

Dear Diary Moment 9/20/2021: I've come to realize, in my immersion in Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, a couple of things about his concept of the actual and the virtual. I've come to make a couple of connections: To begin, his inclusion of the virtual may well be why he insists on univocal Bein...

Dear Diary Moment 9/19/2021: Watching Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ the other night, I saw, yet again, how a lot of our more secular heroes (or how we see them (can be rooted in Christian mythology: the very archetype (Lewis? (of the Christ-like figure. This can be really seen with Deleuz...

Dear Diary Moment 9/18/2021: Today, at the “library”, I had the pleasure of watching the Nebraska/Oklahoma game to the end. Granted, it was a shame that the Huskers lost. But they still gave the Sooners a game to the very end. And it made me realize: I like watching football. I just wish I had more ...

Dear Diary Moment 9/13/2021: Today I want to break down and elaborate on a passage in Joe Hughes' reader guide to Difference and Repetition and hopefully get at the profound experience it was. But as I have said before: philosophy (especially of the continental kind (is a little like someone on LSD ...

Dear Diary Moment 9/12/2021: As I start on this immersion in Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition starting w/ Joe Hughes’ reader’s guide then on to James Williams’ and on to the original text (I’m thinking about adding Levi R. Bryant’s Difference and Givenness due to a comment by Hughes), after all t...

Dear Diary Moment 9/6/21: Reading Joe Hughes' reader guide to Difference and Repetition, in my study point at the "library", I came across a point on which I may have to depart from Deleuze. It describes the idea of univocal being (all things that are are in the same way (as ending in a Me...

Dear Diary Moment 9/5/2021: Reading Joe Hughes’ reader guide to Difference and Repetition, I’m starting to get clearer sense of a line of development that started in D & R and reached a deeper and more evolved expression in Anti-Oedipus. But first we have to backtrack through Husserl’s understan...

Dear Diary Moment 8/19/2021: Thinking about it now, Deleuze’s ‘connect and forget’ makes perfect sense. In order to connect w/ the infinite in our finite capacity, we would have to let go of the possibility of retaining everything. To do otherwise would be the pride (the arrogance even (that goes be...

Dear Diary Moment 8/16/2021: Reading Joe Hughes' Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, I'm starting to better understand Repetition in the latent sense that Deleuze describes it as compared to the manifest sense of it that we see in the everyday. As I read it, it's like an abstract bricolage that is ...

Dear Diary Moment 8/14/2021: One of the things that came up for me in James William’s guide to Difference and Repetition is Deleuze’s distinction between “repetition for itself” and “difference in itself”. And phrasing is really important here. The thing is I can’t help but see a correlation between...

Dear Diary Moment 7/25/2021: Started today on the book I got from Philosophy Now for getting my answer to the question of the month accepted ( Bragging rights!!! This brain is international, Baby!!!!!! : The Philosopher Queens, edited by Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting. And it’s about time. I always...

Dear Diary Moment 7/16/2021: Reference: https://www.facebook.com/groups/675745095875295/permalink/4059670150816089 “This ability seems to be pretty unique to humans (the mirror test) and occurs at the age of about 18months. It is a tearing apart of body from mind, the start of self-consciousness, bu...