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by doolhoofd
Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:15 pm
Forum: Gender Philosophy
Topic: cross-dressing
Replies: 40
Views: 16078

Re: cross-dressing

Transvestism. Neither homosexuals nor transexuals, transvestites like to play with the indistinctness of the sexes. The spell they cast, over themselves as well as others, is born of sexual vacillation and not, as is customary, the attraction of one sex for the other. They do not really like male m...
by doolhoofd
Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:38 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Stop Contact
Replies: 44
Views: 15894

Re: Stop Contact

another excerpt taken from Baudrillard's Simulacra & Simulations http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/simulacra-and-simulations/ Thus perhaps at stake has always been the murderous capacity of images, murderers of the real; murderers of their own model as the Byzantine icons coul...
by doolhoofd
Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:35 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Stop Contact
Replies: 44
Views: 15894

Re: Stop Contact

doolhoofd wrote:the undeniable röntgenesque charm of the hyperspectacular
the new Mortal Kombat, for example, has a special set of x-ray moves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIRSoIaIbfE
by doolhoofd
Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:19 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Grown ups are stupid
Replies: 105
Views: 30501

Re: Grown ups are stupid

is that Hit-Girl in your avatar Kayla?
by doolhoofd
Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:53 pm
Forum: Gender Philosophy
Topic: Reality of sex
Replies: 19
Views: 12489

Re: Reality of sex

Seer Travis Truman wrote:A world-leading philosopher
you are so not a world-leading philosopher.
by doolhoofd
Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:37 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Aren't we dead?
Replies: 11
Views: 6194

Re: Aren't we dead?

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by doolhoofd
Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:53 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Stop Contact
Replies: 44
Views: 15894

Re: Stop Contact

Simulacra & Simulations http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/simulacra-and-simulations/ The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. - Ecclesiastes Representation starts from the principle that ...
by doolhoofd
Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:49 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Stop Contact
Replies: 44
Views: 15894

Re: Stop Contact

...which actually comes quite close to what you said about JB laying snares for the unwary
by doolhoofd
Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:56 pm
Forum: About this Forum
Topic: Welcome to our new forum!
Replies: 98
Views: 108000

Re: Welcome to our new forum!

chaz wyman wrote:ps Never take my critique of your contributions as personal
I won't.
by doolhoofd
Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:45 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Stop Contact
Replies: 44
Views: 15894

Re: Stop Contact

Illusion/désillusion esthétique http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/scarfond/t7/7-Baudrillard.pdf did a little translating here Against all the modern superstition of a "liberation", it must be said that one does not liberate forms, one does not liberate figures. One connects them on the contrar...
by doolhoofd
Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:18 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Stop Contact
Replies: 44
Views: 15894

Re: Stop Contact

"To think like a woman undresses," Bataille used to say. Perhaps, but Catherine Millet's naivete is to think that people undress in order to get naked, to reach the naked truth about sex and about the world. People take off their clothes to be revealed (pour apparaître). But not to be rev...
by doolhoofd
Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:40 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Stop Contact
Replies: 44
Views: 15894

Re: Stop Contact

chaz wyman wrote:There is no evil, no good, except what men identify.
I wrote that in my text too, but as a question
doolhoofd wrote:How inevitable is the intolerable, how intolerable is Evil? Evil exists. - or does it only exist in the mind?
by doolhoofd
Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:37 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Stop Contact
Replies: 44
Views: 15894

Re: Stop Contact

If all you can do is cut and paste I submit that you do not actually know what he is trying to say, and that what you have done is cherry picked some text which you think is most recognisable to yourself. So rather than sticking his neck on the loine and actually venturing to say something, he is d...