From what I can gather, Lacan is saying the formation of the ego is a structuring of images, an illusion of completeness after feeling fragmented, until eventually, during the mirror stage (not a literal mirror) we form our ego and subjectivity (which are two different things for Lacan) in relation to the other. Anyone else […]
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@”Whisper” brought up a decent point that I have wanted to bring up for a while. I always find political and sociological discussions to have annoying limits intrinsic to them, for example, when discussing rape culture or patriarchy in general, I know of women who have been raped and shamed, I have experienced oppression, but I […]
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@”Whisper” bought up this interesting insight on the moderator Discord today. The subject matter was ‘why don’t people from Facebook join the forum etc’? I would say that people are frustrated with social media and would rather be creative, they are just not aware of the irritation. It’s like when you watch too much television, […]
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As philosophy is all about the inquiry of what is true and meaningful, virtuous and beautiful, I thought we could start a few threads asking these simple questions, starting with Truth. What is truth to you? Is there absolute truth? Is truth just something we believe is there, but isn’t, kind of like the arguments […]
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More Netlogo stuff: In this Netlogo program, it models extortion. It’s about social norms, whether shops choose to denounce or pay extortion, it measures anxiety, boycotts of extorted shops, the wealth of the society. Truly fascinating.
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I am going to attempt to quickly summarise Michel Foucault’s ‘bio-power’. Sovereign power had the right to decide life and death. The father of the Roman family had the right to ‘dispose’ of the life of his children and slaves. Wars would break out if the Sovereign’s very existence was in jeopardy, if he was […]
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This YouTube creator is like no other. He usually shares bizarre music tracks, like a sample of a news report and then plays it through a MIDI program, for example. He’s messing around with a program called ‘NetLogo’ – I am not familiar with it myself. From what I could gather, the two groups (heroes/cowards) […]
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@Rubsy requested this be uploaded, we have some ideas about Shakespeare that we may create across the forum soon.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCC97yf7dys I am not particularly interested in the first section of this video, apart from the part about how the blaming of Islam and Muslims for terrorism by Islamophobes is overly reductive and excludes historical context, for example, there have been more IRA Catholic bombings and terror incidents confirmed in the UK than ones pertaining […]
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Introduction There are three main empirical features of gender relations in employment that feminist writers have addressed. [list=1] Why do women typically earn less than men? Why do women engage in less paid work than men? Why do women do different jobs from men? Objectors to claims of structures of Patriarchy often list these features […]