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“Proteus”: Plotless One-Person Fictional World?
[A rendering of the sea-god Proteus by Andrea Alciato] After Stephen Dedalus is introduced in the first two episodes of James Joyce’s Ulysses, hardly anything happens in “Proteus,” the third episode. … more →
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“Proteus”: Plotless One-Person Fictional World?
Ryan/Aless wrote 3 weeks ago: [A rendering of the sea-god Proteus by Andrea Alciato] After Stephen Dedalus is introduced in the fi … more →
What is Philosophy, Benjamin?
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Ryan/Aless wrote 1 month ago: Walter Benjamin begins The Origin of German Tragic Drama with an “epistemo-critical prologue” in whi … more →
Materiality of Discourses on Decolonization
Ryan/Aless wrote 1 month ago: [The Pintura of Chimalhuacán-Atoyac, an Amerindian "map"] Walter Mignolo’s The Darker Side of the Re … more →
Feuerbach’s Materialism
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Ryan/Aless wrote 10 months ago: [Jan van Kessel's Still Life] In tracing the intellectual development of Karl Marx, Sidney Hook disc … more →
Change in the Regime of Power
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Ryan/Aless wrote 1 year ago: [Jacques-Louis David's rendering of Napoleon's coronation] In Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault … more →
Five Years On, Four Decades Later: The Surge
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Ryan/Aless wrote 1 year ago: [Image from University of Texas Library] [Continues "Record of a Neocon War"] The President did chan … more →
Five Years On, Four Decades Later: Record of a Neocon War
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Ryan/Aless wrote 1 year ago: Five years after the invasion, Frontline presents a documentary on the war in Iraq. This latest broa … more →
Romeo and Julio
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Ryan/Aless wrote 2 years ago: “Let’s leave. Tonight.” “What are you talking about?” “Do you have any idea how much it kills me whe … more →
The Dialectical Materialist Relationship between Theory and Practice
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Ryan/Aless wrote 2 years ago: Georg Lukács begins History and Class Consciousness with the question, “What is orthodox Marxism?” I … more →
The Rawlsian Citizen and Homo Sacer
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Ryan/Aless wrote 2 years ago: [Bronze sculpture by Leo Wirth, Citizen of the World] John Rawls, the great Anglophone heir to the s … more →
Critique as Total Destruction
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Ryan/Aless wrote 2 years ago: [Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People] [All citations are from Michael Hardt’s study of the … more →
Husserl in (Indubitable) Response to Descartes and Kant
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Ryan/Aless wrote 2 years ago: [Descartes' model of perception; Image from the University of Bern Magazine] [Based on the lectures … more →
Think Complexity
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Ryan/Aless wrote 2 years ago: Go against (or better: Beware of) simplicity. Beware when, in writing a paper, they tell you to have … more →
