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Metanarrative; métarécit: big fish stories

Harold Knight wrote 1 week ago: Sicilian Mariners Twentieth-century philosophers (especially those who think about thinking and writ … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, hypergraphia, Neurology, spirituality, autobiography, death, Gay, religious experience

Thanksgiving: gratitude, grief or grace?4 comments

Harold Knight wrote 1 week ago:      One way to read contemporary philosophy of religion and philosophical       theology is to view … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, epilepsy, Neurology, brain, autobiography, health-care reform, writing

How I met my mother (French Theory, by François Cusset)

ottiliemignon wrote 2 weeks ago: The critique of the critique of critique, like the old man in the sphynx’s riddle, is left, in … more →

Tags: alan sokel, Alexandre Koyré, Baudrillard, Bruno Latour, "Continental" Philosophy, Deconstruction, Deleuze, Derrida, Diacritics

Hysterical Feminists, Hard Line Scientists

stickslip wrote 3 weeks ago: William Blake; left, The Ancient of Days (1794), right, Newton (1795). … cruel Works Of many W … more →

Tags: Opinions, Fixations, Science, Feyerabend, Philosophy, Kuhn, Feminism, William Blake, Ptolemy

MA Dissertation extract: 1.2 The Death of History

jthurgill wrote 3 weeks ago: In order to determine what the presence of the ghost or spectre means for the present, in way of its … more →

Tags: MA Papers, hauntology, 'Endism', death of history, Fukuyama, Political Philosophy, cultural studies, Baudrillard, simulacra

Vive la differends - or what happens when I color completely outside the lines

Harold Knight wrote 4 weeks ago: The (man in the) robe A memory—no, really a flash/back— déjà vu—an event happened long ago yet proba … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, hypergraphia, epilepsy, Neurology, brain, writing, mania, Wittgenstein

Un post moderno

atlantide84 wrote 4 weeks ago: Da “The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge” di J.F.Lyotard (1984) Science has a … more →

Tags: Food for Thought, Postmoderno

Conference Paper: Cultural Sociology and Other Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in the Cultural Sciences2 comments

Kivmars Bowling (Senior Managing Editor) wrote 1 month ago: Diana Crane (University of Pennsylvania) To read this article and its associated commentaries for fr … more →

Tags: Conference papers, Adorno, Anthropology, barriers, barthes, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Bruno Latour, Clifford Geertz

Review: "Who's Afraid of Postmodernism" Pt18 comments

adhunt wrote 1 month ago: ***My special thanks to Caitlin at Baker Academic for the review copy!*** Paperback: 160 pages Publi … more →

Tags: Authority, Book Reviews, Epistemology, Theology, Liturgy, Postliberalism, Philosophy, Radical Orthodoxy, James K. A. Smith

Postmodernism and Movements

Phil wrote 1 month ago: So! I got to thinking about art movements and realised that I wasn’t sure whether there were a … more →

Tags: ART IRRITATION, stuckist, Movements, Art Theory, Postmodernism

Babae / Woman

karlo mikhail wrote 1 month ago: I remember the second time I visited SM City Iloilo this year quite vividly for the simple reason th … more →

Tags: Music, Política, Theoria, babae, capitalism, de Beauvoir, Feminism, feminist, gender role

Postmodernism considered

Ian wrote 2 months ago: I’m going to take a post or two to talk about postmodernism.  At first, I want to talk about i … more →

Tags: Foucault, Deleuze, critical theory, social change, Philosophy (General), Hegel, Skepticism

Philosophy + Art = Conservatism

Quintus Masius wrote 2 months ago: Almost all philosophers are very conservative concerning modern art. They all look more than 10 year … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Art, Avant Garde, Bataille, Debord, Philosophy, Ranciere, revolution

Unaddressed Differend

films4debate wrote 2 months ago: Shackled Motherhood. Producer: Chandan Gupta Documentary. English. 20′37″ EMRC, Indore. … more →

Tags: Documentary, Film Appreciation, Documentary Film, EMRC, Human Rights, differend, post-modern

The Cathedral of the Sublime and the View from Nowhere2 comments

andrewosborne wrote 2 months ago: So how does Meillassoux and Brassier’s non-correlative realism return us to Werner Herzog and his fi … more →

Tags: Deleuze, Heidegger, kant, Karl Marx, meillassoux, Nietzsche, Ray Brassier, Speculative Realism, brassier

Beginning with Lyotard's Differend.

cph4051 wrote 3 months ago: Where to begin? The ethical and political questions before us are so urgent, so pressing, so difficu … more →

Tags: differend, Arendt, Jews, Christians, Shoah, Heidegger

wie weiter? - 3. Teil - Lyotard und das Erhabene2 comments

jppossmann wrote 3 months ago: Zu deiner Bemerkung, dass es bei unserem Gegenstand einfach um das Nicht-Repräsentierbare ginge, zwe … more →

Tags: Transgressive Art: theory, JP

Obama's Citizenship and the Politics of Denial

Hercules Celticus wrote 4 months ago: In yet another round that will no doubt not put the matter to rest, the House of Representatives pas … more →

Tags: Rhetorical Theory and Practice, Barack Obama, Argument, Proof, Hawaii, birther, Citizenship, Birth Certificate, Faith

Is Rhetoric Ethnocentric?

Hercules Celticus wrote 4 months ago: Rhetoric is used by human beings to deliberate issues, adjudicate cases, and create community. Until … more →

Tags: Rhetorical Theory and Practice, Power, Native Americans, Deliberation, Judgment, Community, Culture, Commonplace, Ideology


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