Thanks j.!
― ljubljana, Monday, 8 October 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
Are you thinking of literature as an influence on our everyday (putatively) A-theoretic understanding of time
As someone who has has had very few brushes with philosophy, all in a non-academic way. My scattershot understanding of time (or time as a question) comes from it being discussed in novels. Often via the novelist's reading in philosophy and the way they are processing it. There was a period where I was groaning whenever it comes up (I like it but usually feels a bit tacked on) (Kinda why I like Perec's Species of Spaces so much, although I haven't read that in years)
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 October 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
I know what you mean about the tacked-on feeling. The project is too narrow to accommodate literature directly, but j's link suggests I ought to be looking more widely for inspiration over the ways in which people might conceive of time.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
i've only looked at poulet a long time ago, but i gather there's probably plenty of european phenomenology stuff post-husserl that has plenty of stuff that they think is somehow orthogonal to / critical of the a-series/b-series type folx. iirc a lot of this would include stuff that's interested in temporality in the arts, like poulet.
― j., Tuesday, 9 October 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link
the a-time b-time stuff is pretty provincial, no? just anglo-american & hangers-on. there are other provincial traditions on time, like the bergson tradition in france.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 06:57 (five years ago) link
to start from the contemporary research rather than digging up husserl i would go poking around anything dan zahavi's done that might venture some explicit links to literature.
read some interesting stuff lately by a phenomenologist on depression - matthew ratcilffe, who i think might be in your neck of the woods - that could be fruitful for a study involving psychology. iirc he's concerned about establishing his bona fides w.r.t. the going therapeutic accounts of depression. one bit of his project involves accounting for the changed experience of time for depressives.
― j., Tuesday, 9 October 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
Paul Ricœur's Time and Narrative is the go-to title in the French literary tradition. Somewhat perversely, I would also recommend Maurice Blanchot's The Space of Literature and The Book to Come.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 07:48 (five years ago) link
'Perversely' because he doesn't tackle time in a systematic fashion, not for any other reason. If anything, I prefer Blanchot.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 07:53 (five years ago) link
Thanks everyone, these suggestions look promising.
Euler, the project specifically sets out to address A- B- debates, but I may understand them better when I've done at least some cursory exploration of other traditions.
j., there likely won't be time (ho ho) to engage properly with Ratcliffe's project, but I've just downloaded a full text from his research gate page, again in the hope of just gaining some perspective. Our project has a developmental angle, so we're spending a lot of time devising tasks for kids.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:28 (five years ago) link
Regarding "Philosophy of Technology" this is coming out soon from a good series and looks like fun:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology
― ryan, Friday, 7 December 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Anyone on this board reading Reza Negarestani's "Intelligence and Spirit" ?
https://www.urbanomic.com/book/intelligence-and-spirit/
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 16 December 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
ryan should totally be reading that
― j., Sunday, 16 December 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
Yikes
― jmm, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
huh that looks interesting! I just ordered it, lol. don't know anything about negarestani though.
― ryan, Sunday, 16 December 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
I’ve made friends with dome critical theory/philo grad students who talk about Deleuze all the time. learned about the plane of immanence last night. still not totally clear on the concept
― flopson, Sunday, 16 December 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
you and me both buddy
― j., Monday, 17 December 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
re: philosophy of tech, i'm a dilettante when it comes to philsophy but i took a philosophy of technology class anyway and this was the main text: https://books.google.com/books/about/Technology_and_Values.html?id=BgYc9_ldWFYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false
i enjoyed it even if it was often beyond my pay grade
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 17 December 2018 03:42 (five years ago) link
currently making my way through the new translation of The Phenomenology of Spirit for the first time. I gotta say, this book is wild.
Also, I don't know anything about Brandom but I'm looking forward to reading this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674976819/
Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world’s best-known and most influential philosophers.
In this much-anticipated work, Robert Brandom presents a completely new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel’s classic The Phenomenology of Spirit. Connecting analytic, continental, and historical traditions, Brandom shows how dominant modes of thought in contemporary philosophy are challenged by Hegel.
A Spirit of Trust is about the massive historical shift in the life of humankind that constitutes the advent of modernity. In his Critiques, Kant talks about the distinction between what things are in themselves and how they appear to us; Hegel sees Kant’s distinction as making explicit what separates the ancient and modern worlds. In the ancient world, normative statuses―judgments of what ought to be―were taken to state objective facts. In the modern world, these judgments are taken to be determined by attitudes―subjective stances. Hegel supports a view combining both of those approaches, which Brandom calls “objective idealism”: there is an objective reality, but we cannot make sense of it without first making sense of how we think about it.
According to Hegel’s approach, we become agents only when taken as such by other agents. This means that normative statuses such as commitment, responsibility, and authority are instituted by social practices of reciprocal recognition. Brandom argues that when our self-conscious recognitive attitudes take the radical form of magnanimity and trust that Hegel describes, we can overcome a troubled modernity and enter a new age of spirit.
― ryan, Friday, 8 March 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
oh is that all we gotta do
― j., Friday, 8 March 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link
Handing out Hegel to all the world, like LSD in the water supply.
― ryan, Friday, 8 March 2019 05:10 (five years ago) link
what has happened to nina power exactly? is she a pagan terf crypto-fascist now? she's been hanging out with justin murphy. this is a point-by-point denunciation of a video I have not yet watched https://write.as/7v8fbjq9ekoaxl3z.md. what would k-punk say?!
― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 09:50 (five years ago) link
Why is it so hard for these people to veer Euro new age without revelling in the underlying fash? It doesn't have to be, although you'd be forgiven for not buying that.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 10:14 (five years ago) link
nina "white" power
― j., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
Speaking truth to power.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
one of these years (probably not this one) I'm gonna go through a Hegel phase, and I'll probably end up more obnoxious than ever. I did go to Jena last summer.
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
Hegel-Hegel or Hegel-Kojève?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
I want it raw
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
ODB's 'Shimmy Shimmy Ya' is ripe for a Hegelian take.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
as someone who knows nina a bit and knows lots of people who know her better i can say i have no idea how she's ended up in this horrible place
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
White privilege is a helluva drug
― Carpool Tunnel (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
This is a good piece on Cavell - sympathetic and critical.
https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/must-we-mean-what-we-say-on-the-life-and-thought-of-stanley-cavell
― jmm, Sunday, 28 April 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Wow
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
Anyone reading/read Korsgaard’s Fellow Creatures? I’m enjoying it - it’s very good.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 28 June 2019 10:43 (four years ago) link
wait, how did i only just find out that colin mcginn's legal defence was "in a sense there is nothing that is not a hand job" ?
― mark s, Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
A young Adorno expresses his distaste for the academy in a letter to Kracauer (29.5.1931): "I don’t want to produce scholarship or a worldview, but something...which embitters people who basically only ever want to enquire into the meaning of existence using Aristotle or Hegel."— Adam Baltner (@schaumahaltmal) December 5, 2019
― j., Friday, 6 December 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Speaking of Adorno, do any of you have any opinions on Raymond Geuss?
― ryan, Friday, 6 December 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
i geuss not
― ingredience (map), Friday, 6 December 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
i like him, even so much of what i've read of his has that uh i dunno how to describe it that clever oxbridge impatience to it - at least he turns it against his own social circle which is sweet. still have never really read his long-ago book on critical theory. it seems lately he's in one of those late-career periods that philosophers go through when they're hitting a big ~publish all~ button, which is fine.
his casually thrown off book of essays on historical philosophers 'changing the subject' is very good, with some differences of taste it actually feels like a representation of ~my~ history of philosophy for once.
and i really like his little book - reprinting lectures i think? - on public goods & private goods.
― j., Saturday, 7 December 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
Does anyone know of a good reference (preferably an article) that neatly summarizes the Heidegger-and-Nazism debate? I'm writing an essay where I have to allude to this but since it's not really central to what I'm talking about I would like to avoid wading into a huge pile of literature.
― VC, Saturday, 4 January 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
scruton: dead
― j., Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/uH8W5RAlW2— where are the pobblebonks of yesteryear (@AmneMachin) January 21, 2020
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
:D
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
Doug struggling with Kant. I feel you buddy pic.twitter.com/Nf2yvucyPP— Graham (@onalifeglug) May 30, 2020
― j., Sunday, 31 May 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
Good obituary:
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/bernard-stiegler-in-memoriam/
Reportedly a suicide, in reaction to an unnamed chronic illness (echoes of Deleuze).
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
Thanks pom, good piece
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Seconded, thanks for posting that. Very sad this is how he went.
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
I did not know of him, but thanks for posting this.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
Here he is in the 2004 documentary film The Ister, which is how I got wind of him in the first place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymtnUDAOEWc
The entire thing is very much worth watching btw.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
I was aware of him but that obituary definitely inspires me to read him
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
Vol. 1 of Technics and Time is the watershed, even though it may not be the most approachable starting point (that distinction goes to Acting Out, which incidentally overdetermines the theatrical undertones of Passer à l'acte, but such are the vagaries of translation). His treaties on 'symbolic misery' are also quite thought-provoking, albeit shot through with the typically French assumption that high brow culture needs to be democratized because it is 'superior'. I am less taken with his later works, which frantically aspire towards a Theory of Everything of technocapitalist oppression – a laudable aim yet one that requires a bit more caution than he exhibits.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link