Rolling Philosophy

I saw this thread title and initially thought it would be about best approaches to throwing the D20 in a role playing game.

man that clip is my h8ed approach to... everything really. "You can't understand x without y, z, or q". You could say that in any academic discipline, or any non-academic discipline. Fuck it. Secondary texts ftw.

btw another mostly lapsed MA here, although I keep up my subscription to The Philospher's Magazine.

plax what's yr favorite husserl? I'm reading crisis of the european sciences right now but that's obv. a very late and not very representative work so I'm wonderin' what I should check out next.

i read the cartesian meditations recently enough and its a pretty sweet intro.

the Foucault lecture courses that have been coming out in english translation over the past few years are also great -- I find the lecture format really easy to follow (not that Foucault's other books are particularly offensive in this regard; just sayin'), and there's a lot of great stuff in there

― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:48 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YES--birth of biopolitics is GREAT i think, not to mention the clearest/'easiest' of any foucault book ive read too.

really makes me want to read hegel and hausel to understand late heidegger to understand derrida (kinda thought socrates was supposed to be the key to derrida though)

― plax (ico), Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:03 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i thought levinas was the key to derrida

i dont even know who that is

smdh

i will never understand derrida

fu omg

lol jk

lithuanian jew, student of husserl (and heidegger i believe?), key concepts 'the other' 'ethics as first philosophy' 'face-to-face' 'alterity'

derrida has two long essays about him--'violence and metaphysics' and a published (extended?) version of the eulogy he gave at levinas funeral

the key to derrida fyi is smokin pot and reading poetry

I don't think levinas was a student of heidegger (maybe yr thinkin' of marcuse?), but yeah, he was (I believe) the first french translator of husserl, and in general had a big influence on the french reception of phenomenology

xpost halfway there; which poetry should I be readin'?

Rilke, maybe?

well holderlin obv

rimbaud dude

bob dylan

mallarme

shel silverstein

paul celan

nicki minaj

paul celan for sure.

I heard a lecture on Derrida + Celan last weekend.

celan was the poet derrida wrote most about from what i can tell.

this (therefore) will not have been a thread

the best introduction to Derrida is the documentary Derrida — his waffle-preparing technique is the key to his entire philosophy project

or, "philosophical" project

i am gonna look into these foucault lectures because they sound right up my alley but that means i will probably not read them for another 4 years because that's what i do :(

first book of Derrida's lectures was published last year too

I thought jakobson and the structuralists was the key to derridas but I come from a lit theory background

by the way any philosophy book is improved 1000% if you imagine zizek reading it to you in his voice

i sometimes make lectury gestures when i am reading philosophy bc i am explning it to myself

I'm philosophy

xpost yeah me too! (not in public tho, I don't have the stones fer that)

zizek's voice is great, and I have sometimes imitated it (in my head or aloud) while reading his stuff, but never thought of using it for other things. heh.

i think when i read derrida i imagine it in Dennis Hopper's voice

50 Philosophy Blogs!

http://onlinechristiancolleges.net/50-philosophy-blogs-to-help-you-find-the-meaning-of-life/

only two from that list I recognize/read sometimes are Larval Subjects and Object-Oriented Philosophy. but I still don't understand their whole "speculative realism" steeze.

there's a speculative realism collection on its way, you can learn soon! Although really I don't think it's much of anything at all, beyond very broad sweeps like being a strain of continental thought that takes science more seriously and tries to put together more positive projects after years of deconstructive negativity and such.

I'm pretty sure Levinas studied under Heidegger, making the whole nazism and turn away from Heidegger all the more dramatic.

just got Quentin Meillasoux's After Finitude from Amazon -- anyone read it?

YES!

it's excellent!

I'll need to read it many more times before I really understand it, but the stuff about the ancestral is so good

cool thread! current readings:
Deleuze - The Logic of Sense
Foucault - The Order of Things
Selected Writings of Nicholas of Cusa
and as always reading and re-reading Peirce for my dissertation.

anyone here into radical constructivism or second order cybernetics? (Heinz von Foerster, Spencer-Brown, Humberto Maturana, Niklas Luhmann, Francisco Varela, etc etc) Not philosophy proper but in truth i think it sheds a lot of light in that direction.

don't recognize most of those names... I'm curious about Luhmann (only know about him thru Habermas), but haven't read any yet -- I get the impression that his work would dovetail with Latour, who I quite like, but maybe I'm way off-base. also interested in cybernetics, but I feel like I need to really bone up on math before I can get anything out of it.

Yeah Latour is certainly close to those guys, as is Michel Serres.

looking at After Finitude on amazon, looks pretty cool, gonna pick it up.

Thinking about buying Leo Damrosch's Tocqueville's Discovery of America, anyone heard anything good about it? (Yes, probably more of a history than poly phi, but I've wanted to read something Tocqueville related for awhile.)