Tag: metaphysics

  • Blame and Capitalism

    Consider that our global system of trade involved with semantic economy may be based on a system of blame. Or, more properly stated, those who make the most money, the tally of systemic “goodness”, are those who are best able to displace blame from themselves. Titles, invoked with all institutions, thus are a systemic firewall…

  • Read: “21st Century Speculative Philosophy: Reflections on the ‘New Metaphysics’ and its Realism and Materialism” | Leon Niemoczynski – Academia.edu — and ponder….

    (99+) (PDF) “21st Century Speculative Philosophy: Reflections on the ‘New Metaphysics’ and its Realism and Materialism” | Leon Niemoczynski – Academia.edu — Read on www.academia.edu/7265783/_21st_Century_Speculative_Philosophy_Reflections_on_the_New_Metaphysics_and_its_Realism_and_Materialism_ ——- Interesting that I thought the term ‘metaphysics’ referred to something more than what we have to say about it. I’m not sure how there can be a ‘contemporary metaphysics’…

  • On Derrida: Voice and Phenomenon

    On Derrida: Voice and Phenomenon On Derrida: Voice and Phenomenon — Read on iambobbyy.com/2019/03/10/on-derrida-voice-and-phenomenon/ Interesting conventional small exegesis of Derrida. I think it shows where Derrida fits into time in contrast to what a subject might be doing at any time. The subject of Derrida is exhibiting a particular moment of time; he is not describing…

  • The Problem of the Dialectic: Convention, Reality and Irony.

    The dialectic, as I have said earlier, cannot be taken too seriously. For when it is, the break that has perspective finds the levity that brings the truth of the matter over the impending doom. Yet when things have become so serious, it is only because I have been presented with my self and the…

  • Direct Tangent 5.31: Radical, Immanence and Faith.

    I hope you have a good appetite. We are at a table in a restaurant. Laruelle is my dinner partner in the seat next to me. He is having non-philosophy as his main dish; ironically, I have have opted for the buffet. There are others at our table but they have not been introduced. Many…

  • Tangent: Bad Faith, Part 3

    Ok, time to get serious. One has to have the time, see, to get really serious because when one gets really serious, things tend to get really funny, so funny, that most people will hardly have the time, so serious they are about having such a little amount of time. But thats a joke. Bad…