I liked the idea of this kind of section on a forum, a place where members can write an essay, a play, movie script, poetry and more, if their topic does not or does fit into the general themes of the rest of the forum. Overcome your writers’ block here!
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This is some text I found on my PC. It was answering a video that had a guy I know called Nick, asking an ‘astrologer’ about astrology. Hi Nick, Here are the questions you asked in the interview and my responses. I will attempt to keep them as simple and as short as possible. […]
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This is a thesis that a friend gave to me, she got her doctorate in philosophy with this thesis. It has lots of ideas from Jean Luc Nancy, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guatarri and Michel Foucault to name a few. I haven’t read it properly yet, but just thought I would share it for future interest.
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Just found this Routledge Critical Thinkers book about Lacan, maybe it will come in handy for Derrida in particular.
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Barbican Art Gallery has invited conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse to create an immersive multi-channel video installation in the Curve. In collaboration with composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, Mosse has been working with a new, powerful telephoto military camera that can detect the human body from a […]
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Don’t be fooled by the title of this thread, I hate the performative actions of discipline and punishment from the state. What is of interest however, given the recent Trump exiling of illegal migrants, is that there is a difference between saying ‘I am against immigration, something ought to be done’, which is a performative […]
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How do you think we form the self? Is it a process of affirmation, or negation? In other words, do we declare through inclusion and desire, stating ‘I AM’, or do we declare through exclusion and limitation, stating ‘I AM NOT’? Strictly speaking, we include and exclude simultaneously, but I personally believe we form through […]
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More specifically, the title should read ‘Why Anarcho-Capitalism can’t function for very long’. There are two types of An-Caps, there are those who want no state at all in favour of personal pusuit of profit, unfettered by law and regulation, then there are those who call themselves Minarchists – a ‘slim state’. There’s also the […]
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As they are not being actively read in a group in the Reading Zone section, I am uploading them here so that everything can be located on the forum.
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Here is a copy on Derrida from the Routledge Critical Thinkers Series, I haven’t read it myself, but it’s supposed to be an excellent introduction for those new to Derrida. Who wants to read it with me? I have opened up a new sub-forum here for reading groups. I am the moderator for now. Please […]