[Frederick II, enlightened Prussian monarch, conversing with Voltaire, French philosoph; Image from Beowulf's Tomb] In his succinct and accessible Hegel, Peter Singer explains the basics of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s philosophy. One of the key concepts discussed is the idea of the progress of history, or, better yet, of history as progress, i.e. of history…
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Fellows, Friends, and Others, I am sending another one of my reports from the field. As stipulated, I am using the species’ own mode of transmission, their own semiology—what is referred to in these parts as “language” (though, technically speaking, they use many “languages” organized in a similar way as a system (i.e. as “language”),…
She’d been roaring a long rant then she rambled on. He snarled stubbornly and barely stopped himself from strangling her. Silence in the middle of the street. He saw the tears in her eyes as she saw his face reddened. The afternoon wind blew, Shh . . . He hesitantly, slowly held her hand. She…
[Image from the movie version of Everything is Illuminated] [A review of the psychoanalytic ontology of the Symbolic, the Imaginary, the Real would be helpful in reading this post.] There’s this passage in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated that, in the midst of the romanticism that permeates the book, stands out perhaps as so…
A new group called Radical Thought has been created on Facebook. If you don’t have an account, you can create one there, and then go directly to the group’s site. If that doesn’t work, once you’re already logged-in, go to Groups, and then on the search field, type in “Radical Thought.” (In my experience, there’s…
“Let’s leave. Tonight.” “What are you talking about?” “Do you have any idea how much it kills me whenever you get jealous of me? Talking to a girl, or talking about them? Don’t you think I see? Don’t you think I saw just now—And that wasn’t even a friend!” “You don’t know what you’re talking…
[Image from the cover of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle] There comes a time, I think, when we stop imitating. When we get tired of looking around, observing how others (re)act, how they do things, how they live . . . patterning our lives according to these archetypes (patterns of behavior we (Imaginarily) share…
You look at yourself in the mirror. You see your face is the same. You tighten your tie. In the mirror, you see them, by the bed. You see him, the love of your life. His face, like yours, betrays no emotion, like that time at the gym when he walked in and, upon seeing…
