I find any TV Shows, literature, movies etc, to work really well when the situation is set in a small, limited space. Examples include: Jean Paul Sartre – No Exit Franz Kafka – The Metamorphosis Mike Leigh – Abigail’s Party Sapphire and Steel – 1,2,3rd seasons (the ones I have seen) Martin Parr’s version of […]
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In demonstrating an important tendency in people, the inflexible are broken, the overly flexible are lost. I created an artificial ruckus regarding the arbitrary numeric designation of 3333 and 666 which were used for their signifigant potential uses and influences but are simultaneously unimportant as well, like anything else, nothing is necessary, but while it […]
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or collapse ? In the beginning of the twentieth century Oswald Spengler predicted “The decline of the Occident”. Hundred years later Oreskes predicted “The collapse of western civilisation”. Spenglers work was mostly based on the histories of past civilisations, while Oreskes study bases on contemporary environmental, political, social, scientific etc data. Despite its traditional philosophical approach, […]
Written by atreestump
We live in a Disaster Capitalist state. Naomi Klein pointed out one of Milton Freidman’s tactics of using events of terror and catastrophe- from Earthquakes to Suicide Bombers- to play political spin to the advantage of the neoliberal agenda. The horrific attack on the Manchester Arena may be used to Theresa May’s advantage – a […]
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This is perhaps the most horrifying problem in philosophy, thinkers from Descartes and Newton to Nietzsche and Davidson have tackled this problem. Some of the more wacky explanations are from Liebniz and Berkeley, although I have sympathy for Berkeley and Idealism as it solves the dualist problem of how mind and body interact by simply […]
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I just purchased this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Being-Grabs-Speculative-Anarcheology-Metaphysics/dp/1785420283 Hilan Bensusan – Everything is capital This is a book on the metaphysics of contingency. It looks at what could be otherwise, at what lacks the weight of necessity, at what is up for grabs. Aristotle maintained that there could be no knowledge of the impermanent. Since then, metaphysics […]
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In Salvatore Lupo’s The History of the Mafia he kicks off criticising other historians who devote too much effort digging through etymological records of the term and who manage to find ‘origins’ as far back as say the 13th century. Lupo declares it is the revolutions during the 19th century that are of most importance […]
Written by waechter418
All our deeds, emotions, thoughts, creeds – and whatever else we are trying to relate ourselves with – are expression of Consciousness which thus exercises its possibilities in order to realise itself.
Written by atreestump
Here is great lecture about Platform Capitalism, the new cut throat and highly precarious world we live in has lots of ‘gigs’, ‘sharing’ micro-jobs that amount to very little wages and high maintenance costs with no employment rights whatsoever.
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Who was John Locke? Locke was the most important early-modern English philosopher. He was born in 1632 and died in 1704, he was a medical doctor and his political writings are some of the most influential writings for Anglo-American political philosophy to this day. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) He wrote this essay while […]