Ugh the Critique of Pure Reason?
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
nah!
― ryan, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 03:26 (eight years ago) link
still goin, amid other reading - a bit over halfway through, will finish (unless end part about german political history is boring)
― j., Wednesday, 24 June 2015 03:28 (eight years ago) link
Shut up about your philosophy. Shut up emirate?
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
http://againstprofphil.org/
was stoked to see this until i realized that Z is r0b3rt h4nna : /
― j., Wednesday, 24 June 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
nice idea, but
philosophical work that is aggressively cosmopolitan and non-chauvinist, critically challenging and edgy, daringly generalist and original, fully humanly meaningful, slightly weird, and deemed “unpublishable” in mainstream venues.
― ryan, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
that quote = aggressively interested in one's own boners imo
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
"edgy essays"
― drash, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
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
― j., Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
looks like positivism trying to pretend it isn't and failing
― 2 jazz boys 1 jazz cup (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
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/
― got bent (mild cheezed off vibes) (s.clover), Thursday, 25 June 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
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.
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 25 June 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
anyone know anything about this new marvelous clouds book?
― ryan, Saturday, 11 July 2015 12:06 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:21 (eight years ago) link
wow that's awesome!congrats ryan :)i plan to read it
― drash, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:31 (eight years ago) link
your funeral
jk!
and thanks!
― ryan, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
That looks like an extremely cool book. Congrats!
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
yall are respectable and shit
― j., Wednesday, 15 July 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
pssshhh
back on topic: has anyone read Danielle Macbeth's "Realizing Reason"--sounds like a big ambitious thing.
― ryan, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
missed it but she is real good so... stole that, check
― j., Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
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?!?
― j., Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
good work/congratulations/*shrug*/whatever sits best ryan
will definitely read you when i'm thru with Harry Potter
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
Madame Macbeth is correct re les jeux
She is a friend but I haven't read the book yet
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 16 July 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link
friends don't have to read friends' books, it's a perk
― j., Thursday, 16 July 2015 01:06 (eight years ago) link
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.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Thursday, 23 July 2015 11:35 (eight years ago) link
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?
― jmm, Saturday, 25 July 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
aw that email correspondence is adorable
― drash, Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
Congrats, Ryan! Was always a big fan of yours back in the I Love Film days
― Archaic Buster Poindexter, Live At The Apollo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Archaic Buster Poindexter, Live At The Apollo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
came across this on twitter, made me laugh:
http://imgur.com/gallery/rn1QP69
― ryan, Saturday, 29 August 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
won't google "ghostmodernism" for fear it is a real academic trend, rather than a pretty cool band name.
― ryan, Saturday, 29 August 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like hauntology. Which is a cool genre name.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 29 August 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
http://www.academia.edu/People/Ghostmodernism
1 ghostmodernist can't be wrong.
― jmm, Saturday, 29 August 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Saturday, 29 August 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
Forgot to say 'hauntologie' is also a term from Derrida.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 29 August 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
trust me it would be
― MC Whistler (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 August 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
Busy modernists often hire ghostmodernists to serve as uncredited coauthor.
― jmm, Saturday, 29 August 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Thursday, 3 September 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Monday, 14 September 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
work on work on myth
― j., Monday, 14 September 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Monday, 21 September 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
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
― j., Monday, 21 September 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
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.
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Basically what philosophers did in the sixties.
― jmm, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, yeah
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 02:25 (eight years ago) link
[Jpsartre.jpeg]Yé-yé
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 02:27 (eight years ago) link
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 02:47 (eight years ago) link
Morgenbesser
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 03:19 (eight years ago) link