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 […]
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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 […]
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Another gift from @”thetrizzard” Please feel free to discuss the contents of this PDf here.
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This is a book by Paul Mason, I am not familar with this guy and this PDF was kindly shared via email by @”thetrizzard” I am sure it will be a valuable source for future discussion, please feel free to comment on it here.
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Nick Land is perhaps the most mind-bending philosopher I have ever encountered, with the exception of Deleuze and Guattari. Here is one of his works, ‘Fanged Noumena’.
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For anyone willing to tackle Jean Baudrillard, this is the thread for you! Included are two PDFs, one is the Routledge Critical Thinkers version and the other is some selected writings.
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While these two biologists are not considered to be about philosophy per se, the contemporary view of evolution is often applied to certain social studies, but I will contend that it is Jean Baptiste Lamarck and not Charles Darwin who has the better interpretation for social evolution, the study of culture. Let’s look at Darwin […]
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Spinoza speaks of relationships as being about what combines or repels our essence. We act most actively when the essence of others combines or nourishes our essence and act most passively and with sadness when we ingest the poisonous essences of others. He uses the analogy of food, an apple, one ripe, the other rotten. […]