#continental philosophy

[terrorignitis]

Jean-François Lyotard, Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The last moments of The Temple of the Deep, plus Bad Education Camp's weather balloon posing as a moon. Temple of the Deep by Miguel Arraiz.

Photo by Jamen Percy

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“We live with – and within – a gap between knowledge and wisdom. It is time philosophers, and everyone else, started to try and think about that gap. Maybe more than our personal peace of mind is at stake.” ― Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

[yourbespokeartisanalapocalypse]

Today Michel Foucault and Friedrich Nietzsche share a birthday! To celebrate, here is precisely one photograph (langage-oculaire) and one quotation (ohr-Sprache). May your continental philosophy always be opaque and your ideas diffuse!

[dioptre-hertz]

my lich boyfriend is going to raise a philosophical zombie for me 💗 i think i'm gonna ask for a Jean-Paul Sartre or maybe like an Albert Camus

[raffaellopalandri]

Desire Desire Beyond Lack: Deleuze and Guattari’s Ontology of Production and Its Cross-Philosophical ResonancesDesire

In their groundbreaking work Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari revolutionise the very concept of desire, severing it from its traditional association with lack and repositioning it as a force of positive production. This short post offers an in-depth exegesis of their pivotal assertion “Desire is not a lack, it is a plenitude, a positivity: desire…

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[dark-forest-witchcraft]

“We are witnesses of the greatest moment of summing-up in history, in the name of a new and unknown culture, which will be created by us, and which will also sweep us away.”

Sergei Diaghilev

[rendingrocks]

On Heights of Despair, Emil Cioran

[leftistfeminista]

“Far from being limited to Catholicism, such a procedure for obtaining ideological conversion has universal application, which is why, in a certain epoch, it was very popular among French Communists. The Marxist version of the theme of ‘wager’ runs as follows: the bourgeois intellectual has his hands tied and his lips sealed. Apparently he is free, bound only to the argument of his reason, but in reality he is permeated by bourgeois prejudices. These prejudices do not let him go, so he cannot believe in the sense of history, in the historical mission of the working class. So what can he do?” (p. 38)  “The answer: first, he should at least recognize his impotence, his inca­pacity to believe in the sense of history; even if his reason leans towards the truth, the passions and prejudices produced by his class position prevent him from accepting it. So he should not exert himself with proving the truth of the historical mission of the working class; rather, he should learn to subdue his petty-bourgeois passions and prejudices. He should take lessons from those who were once as impotent as he is now but are ready to risk all for the revolutionary Cause. He should imitate the way they began: they behaved just as if they did believe in the mission of the working class, they became active in the Party, they collected money to help strikers, propagate the workers’ movement, and so on. This stupefied them and made them believe quite naturally. And really, what harm has come to them through choosing this course? They became faithful, full of good works, sincere and noble . . . It is true that they had to renounce a few noxious petty-bourgeois pleasures, their egocentrist intellectualist trifling, their false sense of individual freedom, but on the other hand — and notwithstanding the factual truth of their belief — they gained a lot: they live a meaningful life, free of doubts and uncertainty; all their everyday activity is accompanied by the consciousness that they are making their small contribution to the great and noble Cause.” (p. 38) 

Commentary on Žižek’s The Sublime Object of Ideology (Chapter 1) | by…

Žižek’s The Sublime Object of Ideology