Ok, so I will attempt to summarise what I have read up to now, i’m nearly at the conclusion. Butler examines Lacan and Freud and according to their theories on sexual identity, she finds that Lacan says the female gender is a kind of melancholy, a loss and this identity starts from the prohibition of […]
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I don’t have the plan. I don’t think there is ‘a’ plan. Capitalism was not made by any individual, group, party or conspiracy with a plan, and it won’t be destroyed that way either. It is far too big, complex, uncoordinated, fast-changing and unpredictable for any plan to grasp. Maybe a conspiracy with a plan […]
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I recall a while back I showed you a debunk video where prayer was bought up and you said ‘prayer in the form of petition and response is outdated’ or something like that and that there are other perspectives on prayer now that go beyond this. Do you have any links, or a brief intro […]
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‘Their needs are so few that they do not wish to adopt civilized habits. What we call conveniences and comforts are not sufficiently valued by them to cause them to undertake to obtain them by their own efforts … the great majority look upon the white man’s ways with indifference and contempt.’ Capitalism has been […]
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Here is a music video that was made by David Firth for his fellow creator, Black Lotus. I stumbled on David Firth’s disturbing style of surrealism last year and he is probably one of the best creators of original content on YouTube, he has even created animations for the BBC. I just thought I would […]
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I have just read around a quarter of this interesting book and thought I would breifly sketch out what I think is going on with this one. Please don’t take my post as an authority of course and feel free to comment on anything you think I may have misunderstood. I seem to be really […]
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Similar to the reading thread this one is for all sorts of visual media that moves around. So comic books and graphic novels can go into the other thread but this thread is for everything like films, music videos, videos, television shows, animations as well as artworks that you may have visited or interacted with. […]
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Hi. If this thread could be kept relatively strict with posts containing a listing of all that you have read, are in the process of reading, and wish to read, and can be used as a kind of check list with brief and precise commentary allowed after each text mentioned but extensie discussion can be […]
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I thought it might be useful to have a thread where people can describe a philosophy to see what it might be called if such already exists. This is mainly because sometimes there are so many names to things and genres and philosophers even in other fields that it can be hard to remember or […]
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In many parts of the world, capitalism now seems unchallenged as the dominant culture. It hasn’t always been like this. For most of its history, capitalism struggled to survive, and to spread and grow. Looking back, it’s remarkable how devastatingly successful it has been. No other culture has transformed the world so dramatically in just […]