Rolling Philosophy

I mean, I'm a big fan of weird philosophy, much less so self-consciously weird philosophy. I like it when the weirdos think they are talking common sense.

"edgy essays"

daringly boner

i don't know much abt dude's work, i only really took any look at all once he started disseminating screeds in teh wake of the c0l0r4d0 mess, but it seemed excessively mainline and boring

which does make the backstory of his professional career that comes out in the site seem hella depressing - a lifetime of furious 'inner migration'

also makes the key note of criticism of professionalization as such seem more poignant somehow - like, he evidently wasn't out there deleuzein it up, just wanted to defend the rationality of boners etc

looks like positivism trying to pretend it isn't and failing

haha i was just coming here to post this essay from that site

http://againstprofphil.org/analytic-philosophy-vs-continental-philosophy-wtf-why-does-it-still-matter-so-much-an-edgy-essay-by-z-with-critical-discussion-by-x-and-w/

that is a pretty dumb article

it quotes someone as saying this: "It is bizarre indeed that the rest of the humanities (and in most philosophy departments around the world besides those in Britain and the US) seems to feel that the last place for philosophy is philosophy departments."

firstly, does that parse? is it saying that people in non-Anglo philo departments think the last place for philosophy is philosophy departments? then what do people in non-Anglo philosophy departments think of themselves? I think this sentence is garbled

also, as someone who will soon begin a new life in a non-Anglo philo department (with one of the people mentioned later in the essay as a new colleague), it seems like the quoted person at least doesn't understand non-Anglo philosophy departments very well. do Germans today care a lot about this alleged clash? I don't really know. but in cheeseland the preoccupation with this seems quite peculiar.

also I wish people who write essays about how philosophy should be done, would just do philosophy that way.

anyone know anything about this new marvelous clouds book?

so my book finally has an Amazon page with a cover, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0231171005/

the price is inexcusable and I'm not sure it will come down (they probably aren't printing a ton of copies if you know what I mean). but, uh, I have a pdf of the uncorrected proof, just saying.

I'm proud of some aspects, less so of others. it's been so long I feel almost objective about it!

they sorta mucked up the cover imo but the very cool underlying drawing is by none other than peirce himself. not sure why it couldn't have stood alone as the cover but i didn't get to control that.

wow that's awesome!
congrats ryan :)
i plan to read it

your funeral

jk!

and thanks!

That looks like an extremely cool book. Congrats!

yall are respectable and shit

pssshhh

back on topic: has anyone read Danielle Macbeth's "Realizing Reason"--sounds like a big ambitious thing.

missed it but she is real good so... stole that, check

macbeth sez in a footnote

I have been told by a native speaker that in French one does call building a model airplane a game.

can our man in la domaine francais euler confirm?!?

good work/congratulations/*shrug*/whatever sits best ryan

will definitely read you when i'm thru with Harry Potter

Wow, a recording of David Lewis: http://www.philpercs.com/2015/07/audio-of-david-k-lewis-in-australia-in-1981.html

I've definitely looked for some before, seemed like there was none out there.

Madame Macbeth is correct re les jeux

She is a friend but I haven't read the book yet

friends don't have to read friends' books, it's a perk

I'm reading marvellous clouds atm, Ryan. Enjoying it so far - not sure why I try to read this stuff at work, though. But I'm only about 70 pages in.

I don't know much about Timothy Morton or OOO but this has piqued my interest. http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/25630/1/bjork-searches-for-meaning-in-these-personal-emails

There's some lovely stuff in there.

"I try to argue that everything is alive (or undead--almost as good!!" Can this be called "reanimism" please?

aw that email correspondence is adorable

Congrats, Ryan! Was always a big fan of yours back in the I Love Film days

Also, started reading an interesting VSI that I got in Oxford which is related to this thread but I won't say what until I get a little further.

came across this on twitter, made me laugh:

http://imgur.com/gallery/rn1QP69

won't google "ghostmodernism" for fear it is a real academic trend, rather than a pretty cool band name.

Sounds like hauntology. Which is a cool genre name.

http://www.academia.edu/People/Ghostmodernism

1 ghostmodernist can't be wrong.

im sure "University of Wolverhampton" sounds like a perfectly normal place to british people but it sounds to this texan like an ideal place to study ghostmodernism.

Forgot to say 'hauntologie' is also a term from Derrida.

trust me it would be

Busy modernists often hire ghostmodernists to serve as uncredited coauthor.

Anyone seen this thing? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379028/

Apparently there's a scene in it of Cavell, Danto, and Morgenbesser playing in a meadow while arguing about the external world.

there was some talk a ways back about deleuze and expression, of which i was reminded when i picked up this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Search-Image-Thought-Philosophical-Expressionism/dp/0816678030/

not sure when i'll have time to read it (my quest to understand deleuze remains a faltering yet ongoing project), but thought it may be of interest to the thread.

in other news i order Hans Blumenberg's gigantic "Work on Myth" and im really excited to read it. "Legitimacy of the Modern Age" is probably on my short list of favorite books by this point.

work on work on myth

about 2/3 of way through "the universe of things" and it's very readable and interesting, though i think it's managed to turn me off to OOO and whitehead.

has anyone read Lee Braver's "A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism"? I think im gonna try to skim through it next.

skimmed a bit

read some of his heidegger/wittgenstein book too, seemed worth reading through (just haven't had a good time to yet)

i think he's doing good stuff

Anyone seen this thing? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379028🔗/

Apparently there's a scene in it of Cavell, Danto, and Morgenbesser playing in a meadow while arguing about the external world.

Basically what philosophers did in the sixties.

Yeah, yeah

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Yeah, yeah

Morgenbesser

the introduction to "A Thing of This World" is kind of a perfect little summary of philosophy from Kant to Heidegger. looking forward to the rest. he seems like a clear-headed type.

Braver quotes Hilary Putnam to the effect of it being impossible to find a philosopher before Kant who is not a metaphysical realist. i had never considered this but it's interesting, especially since it recasts the period between Descartes and Kant as one of transition from the medieval to the modern, rather than Descartes as the first modern.

yeah i think there's been a lot of interesting work lately questioning just how well the idea of descartes as the first modern holds, e.g. alain de libera's stuff about when the modern subject actually appears (short answer: either significantly before descartes or significantly after descartes).

just looked up De Libera and his stuff looks awesome but i can't read french because i suck. (i can more or less make out the titles of his books though.)

my biggest regret so far in life is that if i was gonna make the catastrophic decision to go to grad school i should have gone for intellectual history.

but Kant was a metaphysical realist!

For a minute I thought instead of "Kant" you typed "Karl."

the entry on 'subject' from dictionary of untranslatables that de libera wrote with etienne balibar and barbara cassin is a good introduction to his deal - http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/files_mf/rp138_article1_vocabularyofeuropeanphilosophiespart1.pdf