that's a lot of algebra
― waterflow ductile laser beam (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah I also forgot about that weird ny times piece he wrote about his pink shirt.― ryan, Wednesday, April 16, 2014 12:43 PM
― ryan, Wednesday, April 16, 2014 12:43 PM
he's in charge of their "the stone" blog or blog section, i think
― markers, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
i've only read infinitely demanding
i am re-reading after finitude and it's p good so far
― markers, Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
now thar's a guy who certainly hasn't gotten onto the overproduction bandwagon.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:39 (ten years ago) link
there's the divine inexistence, most of which is unpublished, then after finitude, and a book on mallarme in addition to some articles.
― markers, Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:42 (ten years ago) link
unless i'm wrong and there's something else
that being said, yes, this book does not fall into the category of books described upthread
― markers, Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:43 (ten years ago) link
xp that's right i think. i kinda wonder if he's having trouble finishing things - as i understand it he's been turning down various invitations for conferences, visiting professorships etc for about five years now, on the basis of having dedicated himself to getting the ongoing project done.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:44 (ten years ago) link
New book on Plato for a general audience from Rebecca Goldstein with rave reviews from Hilary Putnam among others.
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
wary
― j., Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the title does not inspire confidence.
― ryan, Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
Never read anything from her after The Mind-Body Problem. But take Hilary Putnam endorsement seriously.
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Just because it's Putnam? Or because he does not give out endorsements lightly?
― Eggs and the marketing board behind them, Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
Both
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Just read the synopsis -- sounds interesting. The style in some ways echos Sandel's "What Money Can't Buy", where Sandel toured the book and introduced the subject matter to a lay audience at town hall like meetings across America.
― Eggs and the marketing board behind them, Saturday, 19 April 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
academic luminaries blurb books for the same vain and self-serving reasons that everyone else does, i don't see why putnam should be any different
― j., Saturday, 19 April 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
sometimes you go back to those after finishing the book and get suspicious that the blurber may not have read it!
― ryan, Saturday, 19 April 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
i am reviewing a book of that sort right now : /
― j., Saturday, 19 April 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
I'll take that into account, thanks. But having taking that into account, I am still left with: who am I more likely to believe, an academic luminary whose work I have enjoyed and appreciated who has navigated gracefully through various thorny labyrinths over decades, or the reflex scepticism of ilxor j., who seems like he might be on to something now and then although I haven't been able to put the effort in yet to find out exactly what.
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 April 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
the fact that you think the question facing you is one of choosing between me and academic luminary hilary putnam does suggest that you could stand to read some plato. i suggest the protagoras.
― j., Saturday, 19 April 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
it shouldn't be too hard to figure out if it's shit or not. pick it up and leaf through it a bit.
― markers, Saturday, 19 April 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
markers razor
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 April 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
i feel like i have this weird subconscious system for filtering through books.
― markers, Saturday, 19 April 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
probably some mixture of looking at the writer, publisher, excerpts. not sure.
Everyone can do with reading more Plato.
― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Saturday, 19 April 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
Took a humanities survey course during long ago freshman year nicknamed "From Plato to NATO," isn't that enough?
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 April 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
I have reviewed books that later ended up as blurbs on publisher websites & amazon publisher provided text for books. not sure what I think about that since the publishers don't ask my permission to use my review in ad copy
― Euler, Saturday, 19 April 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
I am not HP although we've met a couple of times
― Euler, Saturday, 19 April 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Were you able to pierce the veil, see through the facade?
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 April 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
Blurbs here: http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/publications/plato-googleplex-why-philosophy-won%E2%80%99t-go-away
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 April 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
plato was responsible for buzz
― markers, Saturday, 19 April 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Aldrin? Dr. Rendezvous?
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 April 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
google
― markers, Saturday, 19 April 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_buzz
Euler: I guess we're proud of you?
― Eggs and the marketing board behind them, Saturday, 19 April 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
*bows*
― Euler, Saturday, 19 April 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, yeah
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 April 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
I call Harry Frankfurt
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 April 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
j/k
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 April 2014 00:40 (ten years ago) link
would it be appropriate to discuss on this thread more broadly "theoretical" stuff that doesn't necessarily fall within "philosophy"? I recently, kind of serendipitously, came across Janet Roitman's "Anti-Crisis." It's a short little thing, and I'm only past the introduction, but it's pretty interesting so far, and she engages with some theorists I am also into (kosselleck, luhmann) in a pretty novel way (so far).
― ryan, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
(^I think the answer to this question is yes)
this article on the limits & nature of Philosophy as a discipline seems to share some of my complaints w/ philosophy as I walked away from it, though I think conflating the western philosophical tradition w/ 'urbanity' (I think I know what he means but this is not a clear or neat term) is obv nonsense & there are other things I would pick at. would be v curious what you guys made of it
http://www.berfrois.com/2014/04/what-is-philosophy-still-excluding
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 May 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
I've read Agamben's Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. It's really interesting, with the imposibility to bear witness about so much of this horror. The short acounts from surviving Muselmänner at the end is one of the best plottwists in a philosophy-book I've read. Not quite Tractatus-level, but still. But I've been wondering a thing: Does anyone know of a good book that discusses these same things, but includes a wider variety of camps? I mean, the Shoah is unique, there were no gaschambers in the Gulags (to start with just one difference) but I do get sorta interested in knowing if there was the equivalent of Muselmänner in those places, and what different historical circumstances does to the ability to witness it afterwards.
Am now reading second volume of Foucault's History of Sexuality. Is good so far.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 May 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
the big exception to that urbanity thesis is Heidegger, right?
finished "Anti-Crisis." I liked it a lot. neat little book.
about 2/3 of the way through Martin Jay's "Marxism and Totality." it's old (1984), but since I don't know much about the subject (essentially 20th century "Western Marxism") it's been really enlightening and Jay is always smart and lucid. wish there were more books like the type he tends to write.
the two figures that are really standing out for further study so far are Lucien Goldmann and, quite surprisingly to me, Sartre. possibly because both of them seem to have a pretty vexed and complicated relationship to marxism. though i know Sartre turns towards the dialectic later on (haven't gotten that far yet).
― ryan, Friday, 2 May 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
trying to look up jean cavailles on amazon I came across this new book that looks awfully interesting:http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22793
― ryan, Monday, 5 May 2014 05:11 (ten years ago) link
nominally irrationalist tendencies of husserl's thought???
― j., Monday, 5 May 2014 05:17 (ten years ago) link
yeah that book should be good, KP's done a lot of interesting stuff, very detailed and scholarly. Tho that tendency resulted in him giving one of the most baffling papers I've ever seen - a very precise look at the internal debates in some branch of '70s and '80s French philosophy that hasn't really had an Anglophone reception and I had no awareness of, it felt like I'd been transported to a parallel universe.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 5 May 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
http://criticalanimal.blogspot.com/2014/05/books-forthcoming-on-speculative-realism.html
― markers, Thursday, 8 May 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
following the links on that page led me to some clicking around on amazon and found this forthcoming book on laruelle:http://www.amazon.com/Laruelle-Posthumanities-Alexander-R-Galloway/dp/0816692130/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=19TWKSAEFZER0FHZ01BR
― ryan, Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
occasional talk on here about phil + math leads me to post these talks from a conference last year at CUNY on simplicity in mathematics and the arts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNsCWKeJESOX_wYUVWmtw5A/videos
― Euler, Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link