The stream of consciousness within the alt-right I believe is in the thought of Jean Baudrillard and Alain De Benoist, both of these thinkers have had a massive influence over the New Right, Baudrillard influenced the themes in the Matrix movies, which as we know has become a powerful analogy for Alt-Right thought (hyper normality, […]
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I just read the introduction and first chapter of Paul Rabinow’s ‘The Foucault Reader’, the first chapter is titled ‘Truth and Power’. I also read the Post-Structuralist entry about Foucault in ‘Superstructuralism’ by Richard Harland (before we go any further on this post, I strongly recommend that everyone who reads this to obtain a copy […]
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Sounds like an easy question, but it’s hard to define. What is philosophy to you? Discuss.
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Philosophy always seems to come down to the study of language, the history of flux in language and concepts and also, how we ourselves learn. The term Philology seems more appropriate, but the ‘love of wisdom’ is the word we use. Why? Well, love is always dual (or two sided), you have to take the […]
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I picked up ‘The Foucault Reader’ today, read the first part about the enlightenment and have nearly finished the first chapter- Truth and Power.
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Langue leads to the concept of value or differentiation. Language as signifying depends upon the selection of one linguistic item as against other possible items, then language as signifying depends not upon the particular positive properties of what is uttered but upon the formal difference between what is uttered and what is not uttered. Speak […]
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Foreword I have seen this topic come up numerous times on many blogs and other forums. The problem stems from Aleister Crowley in the section of the Goetia ‘The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic’. The spirits of the Goetia are portions of the human brain. I am not approaching this quote to say spirits are […]
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I just watched this video by a YouTuber Thom Avella. He’s in the feminist camp, usually I agree with him and find his stuff to be well presented, but this video has a few problems. Germaine Greer a terf? Misgendering someone (Caitlin Jenner) isn’t enough to qualify as a terf. As I understand her, she’s […]
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This is perhaps one of the hardest topics in philosophy. After reading the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, I concluded I am Libertarian on this matter. Suicide is morally permissible because individuals enjoy a right to suicide. (It does not of course follow that suicide is necessarily rational or prudent.) but I am not sure about […]