Tag: change

  • Normativity and critical race theory

    apple.news/AAMsdATRIR9SSRpKGhegrZQ  The renowned and infamous critical social theorist and Philosopher Slavoj Zizek Develops a notion somewhere in one of his books about the significant issue of reality in the context of philosophy is not simply change, but a change in how we are able to reckon what change is– and whether or not we…

  • Issues of Change

    I wonder if all the political upheaval in the United States current election, but the world as well, really has to do between those people who don’t want anything to change, and those people who embrace change. Maybe that’s the definition of conservative and liberal ism. Despite all the wonderful intellectual philosophy is in big…

  • Fear itself is countered by kindness.

    In this moment, our greatest foe is — yup — fear itself. If you are able, tune into what is happening in your body. Your body is not separate from your mind but actually forms a ground from which thought finds support. If your body is nervous and shaken or tense, then your actions which…

  • Thinking Marx Through Harvey — thru reality

    Thinking Marx Through Harvey Thinking Marx Through Harvey — Read on syntheticzero.net/2020/01/23/thinking-marx-through-harvey/ I like it. The only critique I would have of it is that one does not give way to the other. To give way, to choose either one or the other or to have one or the other “prove” itself to be the basis…

  • The Point of the Slavoj Zizek Vs Jordan Peterson debate: An Assessment

    Slavoj Zizek Vs Jordan Peterson: An Assessment https://aussiesta.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/slavoj-zizek-vs-jordan-peterson-an-assessment/ — Read on aussiesta.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/slavoj-zizek-vs-jordan-peterson-an-assessment/ Thanks Neotonos! I agree with much of his assessment.  He hits on some significant turns of the debate; Im glad, because I didn’t really want to assess a play be play. I’ll use this repost to give my final comments on the Z/P…

  • And I am drawn between.

    I am an artist at heart, but with intellectual reflection. I am a philosopher in an artistic sense, rather than a ‘pure reason’ saint. My experience is not exclusionary. Hence my dilemma. In not only thought, but indeed act. Where it becomes the most difficult is in our Post-modern Marxist world of production. There is…

  • The Latest Zizek, from the Guardian

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2018/oct/24/slavoj-zizek-tells-owen-jones-clinton-is-the-problem-not-trump Philosophy, as a capitalist apologetic disruption, is not ending, it is changing. As Zizek calls it, into ‘cognitive mapping’. The ‘end of philosophy’, ‘the end of history’ or ‘the end of the world’ is from the intrinsic mythology within which identity knows itself: What it sees as its own change approaches, is its end,…