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(all this in my experience in academia, obv, ymmv, etc etc)

is that because when you challenge them they point to lacan and then it is hard to refute lacan

i mean more bc they talk about lacan-this and lacan-that and when pressed a lot of their ideas break down. (i've seen this at conferences where questions reduce the presenter to just repeating, 'you'll have to look in lacan to understand' in some form over and over)

i will say a lot of my lacan comes second hand via griselda pollock and other feminist art historians but it tends to be the point at which its difficult for me to take seriously what they're saying anymore. like theres this chapter in vision and difference where she does this lacanian analysis of rossetti's paintings and its just a bit like "oh ok thats the phallus is it? right ok" (she is otherwise awesome, i just wish ppl could use marx instead of lacan bc eg. spivak is a way more credible writer for me bc of this and only this)

some dude who picked me up hitchhiking once got into a mad argument w/ me about this and i resolved to read society and its discontents but i uh havent

civ + discontents. this is btw why i love Walter Benjamin (and Adorno) so much. Marx + some psychoanalysis. it's hot shit.

i like benjamin bc he is mystical

benjamin is my bro

mystical benjamin is the scholem connection

I like Benjamin but I find him TOO HARD a lot of the time because of his mystical shizz. Like, I can totally follow Agamben saying much the same thing but Benjamin makes my head hurt.

gershom brolem

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=2246786&boardid=77&threadid=81522

the brolitical unconscious is levels for a 'modern conception of literature'

Lacan isn't bullshit

re: the other: as somebody said, it starts with Levinas on the one hand and Kojeve's existential-marxist interpretation of the master-slave dialectic on the other (lol). and Kojeve begat Sartre and Lacan, who begat Fanon and a bunch of feminist theory, with probably some stuff I'm missing somewhere in there

what's the thread nakh linked? i'm still not on 77

reading lots of/about Heidegger these days

bro-ing-toward-death

the thread nakh linked to is about l0u1s jagg3r and the post he linked to is a gif of a book about gershom scholem

right

come join snowy! let thee not be the other of 77

gershy schol kinda looked like a 'bro' when he was young, anyway

xp I tend to forget that it exists! but nah, I'm cool — I guess I just lack "a taste for the secret"

http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=2631

huh, very sneaky Dr. Land

I suppose this is the best place to ask: does anyone have any recommendations for a overview of 20th century philosophy? (mainly continental, mainly french) Not afraid of depth, but what I'm really looking for is something with a lot of breadth which actually attempts some kind of all-encompassing view of intellectual history during the 20th century.

the course I took in college used the critical tradition, as compiled by david richter, which was just important excerpts from a lot of big important philosophy texts, w/ some introduction and interpretation

pretty good imo

ryan, gary gutting's history of 20c. french (CUP) is good. there's a recent book 'french theory' (u. minn press) that might fill out that story on the tail end and more from the american/anglo humanities side. also a recent biography of deleuze and guattari, 'd+g: intersecting lives'.

Try - A History of Structuralism by Francois Dosse

Quick question - I'm being lazy as I just want to check something that'll only affect a couple of paragraphs, but if I want to talk about Marx, Kant and instrumentality am I right in thinking Theses on Feuerbach should be my starting point?

thanks! all of those look really good, actually.

Quick question - I'm being lazy as I just want to check something that'll only affect a couple of paragraphs, but if I want to talk about Marx, Kant and instrumentality am I right in thinking Theses on Feuerbach should be my starting point?

― emil.y, Saturday, February 19, 2011 4:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

where does Kant talk abt (something akin to) instrumentality? not familiar enough.

lately I'm tryna get into the third Kritik — the whole question of 'taste' as public use of reason, etc etc. it's fun.

One of the proposed formulations of the categorical imperative is to not use others purely as means and not ends, so in other words not to give primacy to their instrumentality above their being-in-themselves. So I'm tying that to Marx in the sense of a type of alienation stemming from the separation of these modes of being, and indeed a nullification of the latter, but am in need of some references to back me up, rather than half-remembered bits and pieces. The central thing of what I'm writing about is literary, though, hence not wanting to spend days trawling through everything for the sake of only a small part of my piece. Shouldn't be so lazy, I know.

ah ok i gotcha now

practical reason is my big blind spot... i mostly jump on the bandwagon in the post-kantian years when everyone's getting all romantic and speculative, and I have no idea how any of those dudes took the 2nd critique

y'all reading any new stuff you can recommend?

Derek Parfit - On What Matters is the most important philosophy book in a decade probably
Pippin has a new book on Nietzsche that's pretty awesome - but I'm a Pippin-stan
I haven't read it yet but Boyarin has a new book that's getting good reviews -- The Jewish Gospels, I think. Not out till next year tho.

first book's on my long list of things to read. thanks for reminding me about it!

is this the pippin? http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo8697282.html

yep!

looks p good :D

nick land has a blog!

http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/detail/292/time-preference

that gives you the flavor. austrian economics, "civilizational" despair. another right-winger...

good post

woah, thanks for the link

markers, if u figure out how to rss just his posts, let me know.

finally managed to read some of the "speculative realism" stuff, namely Tool-Being. I honestly thought it was pretty good, despite some reservations (don't ask me to defend that statement in detail though). I wonder what a better understanding on Harman's part of American philosophy (Peirce and James) would add to his philosophy, because it seems like his understanding of pragmatism is a little thin.

i haven't looked too hard, but i don't see an obvious way to tbh

xpost

anyone read this yet?

http://o-books.com/books/in-the-dust-of-this-planet

The blurb makes the author sound like an aspiring Oscar Wildean.

I can vouch for Eugene Thacker's previous work. This new one looks like a lot of fun too.

awesome. i want to read after life at some point too

thanks for bringing my attention to this! just about to turn in my dissertation and i think it will be my first read with my new freedom.

i think i'm going to read that yale university press gadamer biography next -- i got it for under ten bucks at the mit press bookstore over two years ago

(i should go back there eventually and check out the discount section again)