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Aim at being loved without being admired
—Wittgenstein
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‘To be a philosopher you need only three things: Eros, attention, acceptance.’
Gillian Rose, Paradiso
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Reading Wittgenstein write “all explanation must disappear, and description alone takes its place” reminds me of aphorism 112 in Nietzsche’s Gay Science, which itself reads as if Wittgenstein himself wrote it.
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Freudian? Nietzschean? Hegelian?
No.
Shakespearean-Marxist.
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Yes and Fisher called Bergsonism the ideology of capitalism, Zizek says Deleuzianism is the ideology of capitalism, Adorno says Hegelianism is the ideology of capitalism, and now Nietzscheanism is the ideology of capitalism. I think this is a moronic argumentative point
Y'all heard this line about Spinozism being the ideology of Late Capitalism? Toscano notes that this could be amended to DeLanda and Cybernetics as well. Curious statement. Zizek-Badiou "Deleuzians are just advanced capitalists" kind of accusation. Todd McGowan says this often...
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First of all, lmao. Second of all, why are these ‘Rightoids’ so intent on preserving Marx if they can’t even accept his basic premise??? Very strange
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why is deleuze the only mf who is allowed to misinterpret somebody and still be considered a genius
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Here's Adorno's hilarious view on diving straight in with difficult texts. The 'naive student' against the 'pedantry' of the teacher.
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if i could just be good at chess, learn another language or two, understand maths and science, read the entirety of world history and write some poems i think i’ll be fine
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Nietzsche is for Freudians who don’t like Freud, Schelling is for Hegelians who don’t like Hegel, Lacan is for Heideggerians who don’t like Heidegger, Adorno is for Lukácsians who don’t like Lukács, Aristotle is for Marxists who don’t like Marx,
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philosophers be like: “it’s so hot 🥵 anybody got a theory of keeping cool i can read???”
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French interpretations of Nietzsche:
Nietzsche: return of the same!
Deleuze: return of difference!
Nietzsche: guilt is bad!
Bataille: guilt is good!
Nietzsche: asceticism is bad!
Foucault: asceticism is good!
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Reading about how Althusser and Foucault thought it was too difficult to grade Derrida’s master’s dissertation is what I needed today — “either an F or an A+”
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“Kant was a critic of Reason” is the new “Marx was pro Capital”. This is what happens when the only primary reading you’ve done is the title and fill in the rest with hearsay.
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Ethics is the worst area of philosophy. Neither philosophical nor political, just cope.
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This is great. There should be more books like this. Let the next one be. . . Hegel?
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Breaking news: the Hegelian e-girl council could not sublate their contradictions
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much of the sickness that defines twitter philosophy can be diagnosed as youth
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spinoza: “each man has as much right as he has power” 😍🥰🥹
nietzsche: “each man has as much right as he has power” 😡😤🤮
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Another thing to blame Descartes: the existence of Elon Musk.
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"I don't understand, therefore its wrong" or "non cogito, non sum"
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One of the big disservices done to the likes of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud is undermining or outright disavowing their commitment to *empirical* and experimental thinking, or their obsession with science.
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An interviewer confronted Derrida with how difficult to read his books are, to which Derrida replied: the responsibility has to be shared, "the reading has to do its work and the work has to make its reader."
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My Complete Works of Hegel I promised to read
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As a Marxist I don’t believe in ontology, as a Nietzschean I don’t believe in morality, as a Freudian I don’t believe in religion
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Some nighttime reading. A history of Shakespeare-reception among the intellectual Right in Germany from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt.
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I've been thinking about starting a reading group on Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, a book that is solitary, short, and brutish. It would be weekly meetings for about 10 weeks. I'll provide some further details soon, just trying to see if theres any interest.
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What annoys me about online Marxists is how they engage the history of ideas as a sum of readymade propositions one accepts and adopts. But this is not how you engage with a thinker imo. Look not for answers but the problems they raise.
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Zarathustra left his home at 30 to go live in a cave for ten years in solitude. What are you doing?
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‘The Christian, who believes he has killed his sensuality, is deceiving himself: it lives on in an uncanny vampire [unheimliche vampyrische] form and torments him in repulsive disguises.’ Nietzsche
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Derrida-enjoyer says Derrida is right. Foucault-enjoyer says Foucault is right.
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Gramsci’s famous motto ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’ was taken from Romain Rolland who had taken it from Jacob Burckhardt’s description of the Greeks — which Nietzsche read to his friends in Sorrento 1876.
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Reading this. Mitchell and Rose do such a good job minimising jargon that I think to myself “hey, this Lacan fella ain’t so bad.” I’m not totally swayed however!
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four philosophy books i want to read this year (month)
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Rereading this. It’s an exciting and worthy challenge to Freudian psychoanalysis but I do think it misses the mark in some instances. Would like to know if anyone has critically responded to it
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Fichte’s essay titles are undefeated:
“A Crystal Clear Report to the General Public Concerning the Actual Essence of the Newest Philosophy: An Attempt to Force the Reader to Understand”
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need to form an alliance with fellow nerds working on the intersection of science, math, art, philosophy, politics
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Freud — ‘It would be a mistake to suppose that a science consists entirely of strictly proved theses. Only a disposition with a passion for authority will raise such a demand, someone with a craving to replace their religious catechism by another [i.e. science].’
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Funny that the English word “dwell” does a much better job than Heidegger’s use of the German word “Wohnen” for describing the fact of being-in-the-world and of thinking.
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I’d say reading Kant’s three critiques in all it’s successes, failures, contradictions is much more philosophically productive than reading Hegel. 🎂
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You can extend Freud’s diagnosis of psychobabble to apply to philosophy (theorybabble). The real lesson is that muddled jargon is a symptom of the *pleasure of thinking* itself expressed by word-play + overdetermined vocabulary. Work-through the enjoyment of your own speech!
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Which Philosopher Are You Quiz
Do you think God is dead?
Do you think the world is all and that is the case?
Do you think esse est percipi?
Do you like rhizomes?
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The Romans knew that wit is a prophetic faculty; they called it nose
— F. Schlegel
If all things turned to smoke, the nose would distinguish them
— Heraclitus
My genius is in my nostrils
— Nietzsche
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The irony of Zizek writing yet another column on ChatGPT is that you could use ChatGPT to perfectly predict what Zizek has to say about ChatGPT.
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hegel in my head, marx in my heart, heidegger in my hands, nietzsche in my feet, lukács in my arse
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After contemplating Spinoza’s determinism Fichte says “depression and dread gnawed at my insides”
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PhD-er’s: how were you so sure what topic to write about?
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The task of critique is to point out the crisis hitherto lain buried in the order of things (Benjamin)
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This comes right after Marx referring to political economy as a ‘science of asceticism’
Marx: "The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint... etc., the more you save—the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour—your capital. 1/2
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Reading Lukács. Adorno would agree that literature ‘reflects’ social life, but views modernist lit from a negative or symptomatic pov, i.e., that Kafka and Baudelaire can still say something profound and true about social life without having to agree with them ideologically.
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What are some instances of critical theorists talking about painting? It seems quite rare to me idk
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My fav criticism of Descartes' "I think" is still Nietzsche's, who says something like: you are a thing which thinking passes through, nothing says the thoughts we have are, strictly speaking, ours
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If ‘Zizekianism’ exists it would have existed by now, but it doesn’t. Derrida was just as popular and in his own lifetime there were wannabe deconstructionists
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What German Idealists called intellectual intuition Freud called narcissism
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Best book I’ve read in a while — The romantic project deserves it’s due!
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Being forced to read an entire book in one week just to spend a single session discussing it is ridiculous to me. If a book is worth being read in full, then it’s worth discussing it over many weeks.
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sudden rise of right hegelians doing left nietzscheans a real solid 😮💨
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Marxists are bad philosophers. Philosophers are bad Marxists. Sorry!
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i turned 29 today. how long left until i have to write my magnum opus?
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Žižek will be better received a decade or so after he dies, unsurprisingly. Makes me wonder when the first biography of him will be written and who will write it.
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I don’t read much poetry, but I wondered today whether there are examples of poems that reference or even quote other poems? That seems quite neat to me
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I’m reading a lot of ‘Nietzsche was actually a Christian thinker’ (Löwith, Eagleton) but what if Christianity is just Nietzschean?
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celebrating nietzsche’s birthday by having a headache and resenting work
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If I’m reading this correctly, Heidegger makes the incredible claim that his view on the self-estrangement of humanity from the truth of Being is closer to Marxism than are either Sartre or Husserl close to Marxism.
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Nick Land wrote his PhD on Heidegger supervised by David Farrell Krell? Wow
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My article “Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Crisis of Piety” is finally published.
It frames Nietzsche’s understanding of nihilism as a response to the pantheist controversy and the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
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This is a good example of the arbitrariness of ‘analytic phil’. The problem of the ‘meaning of life’ is not one puzzle among others but forms how we think/solve puzzles as such. Not wanting to answer the puzzle of life requires limiting oneself to what can/ought be thought
am i crazy to think that it’s ok to just do analytic philosophy bc you like to solve puzzles. why do we all need to answer questions about the meaning of life
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It’s not whether ‘Aufheben’ can mean both abolish and preserve but whether, as Marx understood it, social contradictions can be finally dissolved. What you want is a McGowan-type Lacanian–Hegelianism where contradiction is both constitutive and necessary for social life
Leftists don’t want to admit the truth. “Aufheben” doesn’t only mean “abolish.” Their inability to grasp the contradictions is the issue.
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I have the feeling that interest in Lacan is declining and will cease in a few years
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“I am busy reading Hegel’s Logic again, a truly astonishing work, which speaks to me today in every one of its parts.”
From Adorno’s letter to Benjamin
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finished. very cool book. would recommend. including the first? footnote that made me laugh
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I’m looking to make a short list of works of conspiratorial fiction, I’ve got Eco and Pynchon — who else?
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I mean seriously, what is the philosophical/political upshot of their wanting to retain a commitment to Marx/ism even if they themselves simply don’t want to admit they disagree with his project
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A copy of Heidegger’s lecture “Was is das—die Philosophie” given in 1955 in Cerisy-la-Salle. Hosted by Jean Beaufret and attended by the likes of René Char, Deleuze. Lacan. Kostas Axelos also acted as interpreter.
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Lacanians who don’t understand Hegel 🤝 Hegelians who don’t understand Lacan
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Foucault won
spending tonight finally reading the derrida-foucault debate on descartes and madness
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