[determinate-negation]

[antoine-roquentin]

you forgot the part where Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed the World Trade Center, was a favourite architect of the Saudi royalty. he had gone there and done a number of landmarks for them, learning about islamic design principles, and when he came back to America, he fused them with le courbusier’s modernism to build the WTC: 

thus the entire event can be viewed as a dialogue between yamasaki and his belief that islam and western capitalism could coexist together against atta’s belief that they could not

[batmanistak3n]

atta is based

[batmanistak3n]

got caught lacking :(

[venusbone]

“If the poem is not born “now,” then when will it be born? And if it’s to be born later, what value has it “now”? A question both easy and difficult, in need of a complex answer, like being permitted to say, for example, that a poem may be born in a certain place, in a certain language and body, but that it does not reach throat and paper. An innocent question, needing an innocent answer, except that—in this company—it is filled with the desire to assassinate the poet who dares to announce he is writing his silence.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (via nemophilies)

[batmanistak3n]

hot take of the day: darwish is better translated in English because the Arabic language is so much richer and he comes off short in it

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Enough already of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault poured like ketchup over everything. Lacan: the French fog machine; a grey-flannel worry-bone for toothless academic pups; a twerpy, cape-twirling Dracula dragging his flocking stooges to the crypt. Lacan is a Freud T-shirt shrunk down to the teeny-weeny Saussure torso. The entire school of Saussure, inluding Levi-Strauss, write their muffled prose of people with cotton wool wrapped around their heads; they’re like walking Q-tips. Derrida: a Gloomy Gus one-trick pony, stuck on a rhetorical trope already available in the varied armory of New Criticism. Derrida’s method: masturbating without pleasure. It’s a birdbrain game for birdseed stakes. Neo-Foucaldian New Historicism: a high-wax bowling alley where you score points just by knockng down the pins.

- Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays   

**Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan.

[batmanistak3n]

lol Camille is such a dumb fuck

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Today’s happy purchase, even though it was the last copy on the shelf—three days ago I saw the bookstore carried five—and it sent me into a bit of an internal frenzy...I could’ve missed it!

[batmanistak3n]

I’m reading this!! It’s such an intense book I can only read one page at a time. Can’t wait to hear what you think about it

[iiluvmuv]

irreversible (2002)

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i'm glad the culture is starting to understand that twinks are actually the real masc kings

[batmanistak3n]

-Camille paglia

[woble-deactivated20200720]

noo dont base your self worth on online validation from strangers youre so sexy ahaha

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you think im sexy??

[fuckyeahlogical]

An abbreviated guide to the study of continental philosophy

 Continental philosophy can be unfriendly to the newcomer. Before reading something it’s hard to have an idea of what you need to know beforehand and to what extent. Well, not anymore. I have single handedly cracked continental philosophy so you don’t have to waste your time.

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Key

(F): Familiarity, a couple of surveys or monographs are enough.

(G): Good understanding, some specialized secondary sources plus some important selections of the primary sources are needed. 

(E): Excellent understanding, a great deal of primary sources with the aid of studies and commentaries.

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Readings on the History of Modern Philosophy 

To be chosen depending on your interests:  * A. W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics (easy) * Benett - Learning from Six Philosophers * Dicker - Hume’s Metaphysics and Epistemology * Baillie - Hume on Morality  * Bennett - Learning from Six Philosophers * Bennett -  Kant’s Analytic * Bennett - Kant’s Dialectic * Longuenesse - Kant and the Capacity to Judge (difficult) * Rachel - Elements of Moral Philosophy (easy) * Beiser - Hegel * Taylor - Hegel (difficult) * Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel * Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 * Beiser -  German Idealism * Wood - Fichte * Sinclair - Bergson * Safranski - Nietzsche * Malpass (eds) - The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic

Classical Phenomenology 

Previous requirements: History of modern philosophy (F), British empiricism (G), Kant (G), History of formal logic (F). 

Focus: Husserl

Also: Scheler. 

Suggested readings:  *** Introductory / Context: Bell - Husserl Zahavi - Phenomenology Zahavi - Husserl’s Phenomenology Spiegelberg - The Phenomenological movement (v1) *** Primary: Welton (ed) - The Essential Husserl Husserl - Logical Investigations Husserl - Ideas Husserl - The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology *** Secondary Zahavi - Husserl’s Legacy Derrida - Edmund Husserl’s “Origin of Geometry” Smith & Smith (eds) - The Cambridge Companion to Husserl Ingarden - On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism

Late Phenomenology

Previous requirements: classical phenomenology (E),  Hegel (F), ancient philosophy (F), christian/jewish theology (F).

Focus: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty.

Also:  Stein, Levinas, Simondon, Sartre (early), Stiegler, Zubiri.

Suggested readings:  *** Introductory / Context: Gelven - Heidegger’s Being and Time Safranski - Martin Heidegger King - A Guide to Heidegger’s Being and Time Moran - Introduction to Phenomenology Spiegelberg - The Phenomenological movement (v2) Carman - Merleau Ponty.  Marshall - A Guide to Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception Barnes - The Presocratics *** Primary:  Heidegger - Being and Time,  Krell (ed) - Heidegger: Basic Writings,   Moran & Mooney (eds) - The Phenomenology Reader,  Baldwin (ed) - Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings *** Secondary:  Lafont - Heidegger, Language, and World-Disclosure,  Mitchell - The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger,  Derrida - Heidegger: The Question of Being and History Gadamer - Heidegger’s Ways Guignon - Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge Calle-Gruber (ed) - Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference Lacoue-Labarthes - Heidegger, art, and politics

Kyoto School 

Previous requirements: Kant (G), Hegel (G), late phenomenology (G), zen buddhist philosophy (E). 

Focus: Nishida

Also: Nishitani, Tanabe. 

Suggested readings: *** Introductory / Context: Heisig - Philosophers of Nothingness, Yusa - Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō Kasulis - Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History, Wright - Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism Carter - Nothingness Beyond God: *** Primary: Franck & Staumbaugh (eds) - The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries, Nishida - An Inquiry into the Good. *** Secondary Nishitani - Nishida Kitarō Wargo - The Logic of Nothingness

Existentialism 

Previous requirements: late phenomenology (F), Kierkegaard (F), feeling angst (E).

Focus: Sartre

Also: Camus, Beauvoir. 

Suggested readings: *** Introductory / Context: Solomon - From Rationalism to Existentialism, Hannay - Kierkegaard, Sartre - Existentialism Is a Humanism. *** Primary: Marino - Basic Writings of Existentialism, Sartre - Being and Nothingness. *** Secondary: Crowell - The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism, Taylor - The Ethics of Authenticity.  Stewart (ed) - The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty

Phenomenological Hermeneutics

Previous requirements: late phenomenology (G), ancient philosophy (G)

Focus: Gadamer, Ricoeur.

Also: Jauss, Vattimo.

Western Marxism/ Frankfurt School

Previous requirements: classical sociology (F), psychoanalysis (F), Kant (G), Hegel (G), Aesthetics (F), Marx’s sociology/philosophy (E), Marx’s economic thought (F).

Focus:, Adorno, Althusser.

Also: Lukács, Kosch, Benjamin, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas (early). 

Suggested readings: *** Introductory / Context: Wood - Karl Marx, Kojeve - Introduction to the Reading of Hegel Gordon - Philosophy of the Arts, Lear - Freud, O’Connor - Adorno, Held - Introduction to Critical Theory, Ferris - The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin. Ferreter - Louis Althusser *** Primary: Lukacs - History and Class Consciousness, Korsch - Marxism and Philosophy  Adorno & Horkheimer - Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer - Critical Theory, Adorno - Aesthetic Theory, Adorno - Negative Dialectics, Horkheimer - Eclipse of Reason, Habermas - Science and Technology as Ideology Jameson (ed) - Aesthetics and Politics. Althusser & Balibar (eds) - Reading Capital Althusser - Ideological States Apparatuses *** Secondary: Honneth - Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory, Lunn - Marxism and Modernism,

Post-structuralism 

Previous requirements:  late modern philosophy (G), structuralism (F), late phenomenology (G), Freud (G), Lacan (F/G), Western Marxism (F), ancient philosophy (F/G).

Focus:  Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. 

Also: Kriteva, Barthes, Butler, Nancy, Cixous, Irigaray. 

Suggested readings: *** Introductory / Context:  Chandler - Semiotics: The Basics, Homer - Lacan, Jameson - The Prison-House of Language, Colebrook - Gilles Deleuze, Norris - Deconstruction, Mills - Michel Foucault, Holland, Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Shields - Ancient Philosophy, Hadot - What is Ancient Philosophy? *** Primary:  Foucault - The Order of Things, Foucault - The Archeology of Knowledge, Foucault - Power/Knowledge Derrida - Of Grammatology, Derrida - Writing and Difference Derrida - Speech and Phenomena, Derrida -  Margins of Philosophy, Deleuze & Guattari -Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Deleuze - Difference and Repetition. *** Secondary: Dreyfus & Rabinow - Michel Foucault, Fraser - Unruly Practices, Norris - Against Relativism, Patton (ed) - Deleuze: A Critical Reader, Habermas  Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.

Contemporary Post-Marxism

Previous requirements: western marxism (F), post-structuralism (F), late phenomenology (F), Hegel (G), Marx’s sociology/philosophy (G), Lacan (G). 

Focus: Badiou,  Mouffe & Laclau, Agamben, Ranciere.

Also:  Zizek

New / Speculative  Realism

[pending]

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 5 June 2013, teenage anti-fascist and unionist Clément Méric was killed by neo-Nazis in Paris. Méric and some of his fellow antifascists happened upon a group of fascists at a sale of Fred Perry and Ben Sherman clothing – popular with both antifascist and fascist skinheads. Despite being physically far smaller than the neo-Nazis, weighing just 66 kg and recovering from leukaemia, 18 year old Méric reportedly mocked them. A brawl then erupted in which Méric was punched in the face five times with brass knuckles before the fascists fled. Méric was a member of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union, and was active in movements for LGBT+ and migrants’ rights. His killers were part of the Third Way fascist group. Two of them were jailed for terms of 11 and seven years imprisonment in 2018 but one was released after 55 days pending an appeal. In the years following his death, thousands of people have gathered to demonstrate in his memory around the anniversary date, and have been addressed by individuals including Assa Traoré, sister of Adama Traoré, a young Black French man who was killed by police in 2016. Tens of thousands of people have again been taking to the streets in France in recent days calling for justice for Adama, as well as George Floyd, an unarmed Black man murdered by US police. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1443275842524228/?type=3

[lazenby]

Here is the next episode of the podcast I’ve been doing with my friends. The last forty minutes are my favorite thing we’ve ever recorded.

[kenbaumann]

In those last forty minutes of this episode, @lazenby says this, which I find very good and very precise: “I feel like I should be totally clear on this. Believing that it’s A-OK for Richard Spencer to get laid the fuck out is not me thinking that it’s A-OK to punch people to disagree with. Because disagreement implies a mutually agreed upon objective space where each of us meets in the marketplace of ideas and our ideas battle it the fuck out until the winner takes all. Richard Spencer represents a kind of political ideology that would much rather kill people than talk to them. The other thing I feel like I gotta say is that… [deep breath] This idea we’ve inherited from a fellow named Michel Montaigne that all of us, all human beings contain inside of them a gigantic kingdom of solitude and memory, and the expanse of this kingdom is the reason you shouldn’t go around killing people, because when you do you snuff out an infinite amount of experience and joy in living, right? And that has informed what we mean when we say a person is a human being, and a person has inalienable human rights. I would argue that a Nazi and Nazi ideology in general says “thanks but no thanks!” to all of that. And once you decline the infinite bounty of humanism, I argue you’re not really protected by the anti-punching rules that seem to govern the rest of Western society.”

[bebemoon]

detail of ‘odalisque’ by philippe-jacques van brée .

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i am making a quiz i hope yall are ready

[onbinary-deactivated20221018]

take my quiz!!! which school of literary criticism are you?

[batmanistak3n]

I took this quiz as a break from reading Lacan and got psychoanalytic criticism. This is so scientific and accurate.

[meatthawsmoth]

Why can’t they swab the back of the throat instead of sticking it up your nose for the COVID test?

[batmanistak3n]

Because the virus resides in the nasopharynx and to avoid contamination with organisms in the throat

[batmanistak3n]

By the end of this quarantine I will finish reading capital volume 1

[whenyouarenothing]

QUARANTINE TIME IS READING TIME. EMERGE less ignorant.

Books/Essays, Theory:

Karl Marx- Friedrich EngelsCommunist Manifesto(Fundamental piece for the social sciences, social movements of the 19/20/21 centuries

Karl Marx-The british rule in Indiahttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/06/25.htm

Sohrab Sepehri - The oasis of now.

Peter Sloterdijk - After God

Antonio Gramsci-gramsci-prison-notebooks-vol1

Secondary literature on Gramsci'sConception of Hegemony Gramsci

Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud-Hegel, Nietzsche and Freud on Madness and the Unconscious

Foucault-The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3) Michel Foucault, James D. Faubion, Robert Hurley, Colin Gordon, Paul Rabinow-Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 Volume 3_ Power-The New Press (2

Zygmunt Bauman-(Themes for the 21st Century Series) Zygmunt Bauman-Globalization_ The Human Consequences-Polity Press (1998)

Hannah Arendt-Arendt-Eichmann-in-Jerusalem

Giorgia Agamben and Walter Benjamin-Bare-Life-and-Historical-Materialism-in-Agamben-and-Benjamin

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a young poet

Rainer Maria Rilke - Stundenglas

Walter Benjamin-The reproduction of the artwork in the 21. century

Guy Debord-Society of the spectacle

Carl Schmitt- Carl Schmitt-The Nomos of the Earth -Telos Press Publishing (2006)

Carl_Schmitt_The_Concept_of_the_Political_Expanded_Edition____2007

Heinrich von Kleist - Penthesilea

Stefan Zweig - Magellan

Luis Borges - the Library of Babel

Renzo Novatore - Towards the Creative Nothing

Renzo Novatore - in the circle of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche-Genealogy of morals

Friedrich Nietzsche-Friedrich_Nietzsche - Human_All_Too_Human_A_Book_for_Free_Spirits_(1996)

Friedrich Nietzsche - Nietzsches critique on religion

Kenneth Waltz-Kenneth N. Waltz-Man, the State and War-Columbia University Press (2001)

Lucien van der WaalLucien Van Der Walt and Michael Schmidt Black Flame vol 1

Eduardo Galeano - Open_Veins_of_Latin_America

Wolfi Landstreicher-wolfi-landstreicher-critical-thinking-as-an-anarchist-weapon

Wolfi Landstreicher- wolfi-landstreicher-the-network-of-domination

Ludwig Feuerbach-Ludwig Feuerbach’s conception of the religious alienation of man and Mikhail Bakunin'sphilosophy of negation

Emma Goldman - philosophy of atheism

Voegelin - on modern gnosticism

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How To Be A Goth Girl: A Beginner's Guide

First steps

Read Capital: The First Sentence - John Holloway

An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Capital - Michael Heinrich

Capital, Volume I - Karl Marx

The Commodity (First Edition Version) - Karl Marx

Capital, Volume II - Karl Marx

Capital, Volume III - Karl Marx

Grundrisse - Karl Marx

Letter to Kugelmann - Karl Marx

Finishing touches

Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms - Ingo Elbe

Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat - Georg Lukacs

Introduction to ‘Theodor W. Adorno on Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory. From a Seminar Transcript in the Summer Semester of 1962’ - Chris O'Kane

Marx on the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory - Theodor Adorno

Time, Labor, and Social Domination - Moishe Postone

The Accumulation of Capital - Rosa Luxemburg

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer

The Culture Industry Reconsidered - Theodor Adorno

Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord

The Class Structure of Machinery - Hans-Dieter Bahr

Being goth in public

Change the World Without Taking Power - John Holloway

Political Aspects of Full Employment - Michal Kalecki

Co-operatives, Unions, Democracy - Rosa Luxemburg

Critique of the Gotha Programme - Karl Marx

The Civil War in France - Karl Marx

The General Theory of Law and Marxism - Evgeny Pashukanis

State Violence, State Control: Marxist State Theory and the Critique of Political Economy - Chris O'Kane

The Russian Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg

Autonomous Resistance - Zapatista Army of National Liberation

On the Abolition of the Antithesis Between Town and Country - Friedrich Engels

1882 Preface to the Russian Edition of the Communist Manifesto, discussing the revolutionary potential of pre-capitalist peasant societies - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

What Does The Spartacus League Want? - Rosa Luxemburg

Our Program and the Political Situation - Rosa Luxemburg