Bearing Witness

inquiries & articulations

[fyp-philosophy]

But he who cannot unveil himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the unhappiest one of all.

Søren Kierkegaard (via fyp-philosophy)

[deadordedicated]

Like, in what ways is Laruelle not performing the same old schtick of the phiosopher telling us what counts as non-philosophy by privation of philosophical categories? What’s the difference between his delineation of non-philosophy and Badiou’s schematization of anti-philosophy?

[deadordedicated]

I don’t really understand the whole Laruelle hype. Didn’t Nietzsche (and then Deleuze) already tell us that power/desire underlies philosophizing? That philosophy is deluded by its own image, when the most original thought has always ‘decided problems and affirmed differences’?

[class-struggle-anarchism]

they began discussing Nietzsche. I took part, expressing my enthusiasm over the great poet-philosopher and dwelling on the impression of his works on me. [James] Huneker was surprised. “I did not know you were interested in anything outside of propaganda,” he remarked. “That is because you don’t know anything about anarchism,” I replied, “else youould understand that it embraces every phase of life and effort and that it undermines the old, outlived values.” Yelineck asserted that he was an anarchist because he was an artist; all creative people must be anarchists, he held, because they need scope and freedom for their expression. Huneker insisted that art has nothing to do with any ism. “Nietzsche himself is the proof of it,” he argued; “he is an aristocrat, his ideal is the superman because he has no sympathy with or faith in the common herd.” I pointed out that Nietzsche was not a social theorist but a poet, a rebel and innovator. His aristocracy was neither of birth nor of purse; it was of the spirit. In that respect Nietzsche was an anarchist, and all true anarchists were aristocrats, I said

Emma Goldman (via class-struggle-anarchism)

[hurleyquinnzel]

Songs that never fail to make white people beyond turnt

 Don’t Stop Believing 

Bohemian Rhapsody 

Living On A Prayer 

Come On Eileen 

Sweet Caroline 

Shot Through the Heart 

Pour Some Sugar on Me 

Sweet Home Alabama 

Under Pressure 

Shook Me All Night Long 

Ice Ice Baby 

Cotton Eyed Joe

500 Miles

Wonderwall 

Buddy Holly 

A Thousand Miles 

Teenage Dirtbag 

Red Solo Cup 

Mr Brightside 

Never Gonna Give You Up 

Eye of the Tiger 

Chicken Fried 

American Pie 

I Love Rock and Roll 

Dancing Queen 

Don’t You Want Me

We Will Rock You 

The Time Warp 

Hey Jude 

Piano Man

This Is How We Do It

Drops of Jupiter 

Hey Soul Sister

In The End 

All The Small Things 

Stacy’s Mom 

Kryptonite 

All Star 

You Found Me

Bad Day 

Bring Me To Life 

Dance, Dance

Sugar We’re Going Down 

I Write Sins Not Tragedies 

All The Small Things 

Ocean Avenue 

Dirty Little Secret 

Margaritaville 

Sk8er Boi

Brown Eyed Girl 

Life Is A Highway 

Some Nights 

Little Lion Man 

Breakeven

Hey There Delilah 

Viva La Vida

Use Somebody 

Carry On My Wayward Son 

Take On Me

1985 

Iris 

I’m Awesome 

Seven Nation Army 

September 

Since U Been Gone

Skinny Love 

Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)

Bye Bye Bye 

Say It Ain’t So 

Somewhere Only We Know 

I’m Yours 

Last Resort 

My Girl 

Tiny Dancer 

Roxanne

Shout 

I’m a Believer 

Soul Man

Feel Good Inc 

Check Yes Juliet

Walking On Sunshine 

MMM Bop

Pumped up Kicks 

Hooked On A Feeling 

It’s A Beautiful Day

Summer Girls 

Before He Cheats 

Happy Together

You Make My Dreams Come True

Build Me Up Buttercup

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

DONTTRUSTME

Shake It (Metro Station)

Juke Box Hero

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

[deadordedicated]

after stirner, i have no idea what i’d like to work on. spinoza? 

[womanhouse]

( a ) Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, 1969 ( b ) Moten & Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, 2013

[mashatupitsyn]

Avital Ronell, Derrida, and Nancy all talk about the ethical debt we are indebted to. The debt that can never be paid off. That endows us to one another. Also, there is nothng more important that Deleuze’s statement on ethics. Which is about readiness. And answering a call. I have referred to this quote for many years. It is my bedrock.

[deadordedicated]

“As is evident, when it came to the moment of death, I too failed to articulate philosophically my fears for her and her family in the face of this trauma, fears that I had spent so long turning over and over in my “cold” and “inhuman” philosophical mind. I too turned away from philosophy towards what is for me the most spiritual of all spiritualities: music, trusting in its incomparable, but incomprehensible communicative power. So maybe that is my vocation, composer/musician, purveyor of a certain kind of silence that, as Nietzsche expresses it, is “too silent for mere silence”, sotto voce, a silence beneath or within the sound or the voice that holds the silence in its proper place, not allowing it to dissolve into a dumb muteness articulating nothing or nothing of importance.” Gary Peters, “The Death of a Friend: Some Themes in Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning”

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 15 2016 - Athens, Greece. Anarchists protest against Obama’s state visit. [video]

[syntheticphilosophy]

History progresses not by negation and the negation of negation, but by deciding problems and affirming differences. It is no less bloody and cruel as a result. Only the shadows of history live by negation.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (via syntheticphilosophy)

[deadordedicated]

Your fears about Trump have all been realized under Obama and every President before him; moreover, they are the bedrock of America

[deadordedicated]

Final track off our debut EP, “I Made My Sacrifice Accordingly”. FFO: Sumac, Neurosis, Mouth of the Architect

[deadordedicated]

A passage from Max Stirner’s infamous Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in which he most clearly expresses his critique of Feuerbach: “His hair — wack. His gear — wack. His jewellery — wack. His foot-stance — wack. The way that he talks — wack. The way that he doesn’t even like to smile — wack. Me? I’m tight as — fuck.”

[deadordedicated]

“Egoism, as Stirner uses it, is not opposed to love nor to thought; it is no enemy of the sweet life of love, nor of devotion and sacrifice; it is no enemy of intimate warmth, but it is also no enemy of critique, nor of socialism, nor, in short, of any actual interest. It doesn’t exclude any interest. It is directed against only disinterestedness and the uninteresting; not against love, but against sacred love, not against thought, but against sacred thought, not against socialists, but against sacred socialists, etc.” Max Stirner, “Stirner’s Critics” (1845); Trans. Landstreicher. Page 19. Stirner makes two distinctions which must be understood in order to grasp his project: 1. Determination vs. Indeterminacy -- See: Hegel’s meditations on Spinoza’s famous principle, omnis determinatio est negatio. Stirner says the Unique “is indeterminacy itself”; the answer to the question of whether Stirner is dialectical or anti-dialectical (a philosopher of a sophist; serious or ironic) rests on the interpretation of ‘dissolution’ in contradistinction to ‘determination’.  2. Principle vs. Interest -- Stirner says in “The Philosophical Reactionaries” (1847) that there is no principle that is not invested with interest, and no interest that could not--for a moment--be raised into a principle. Egoism is a phenomenology, it is ontological; interpreting ‘egoism’ as any kind of political or moral philosophy of ‘individualism’ or ‘utilitarianism’ is impossible given Stirner’s comments on the fallacy of the principle/interest distinction

[deadordedicated]

sometimes i get caught listening to french impressionist music and can’t leave the house for hours

[sproutdistro]

Posters in solidarity with imprisoned anarchists.

[loumishoumi]

Oh this, thank goodness it got put into words.