If we can get rid of the cluttered thoughts, we just might get somewhere.
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… Continue reading And I am drawn between.
I play guitar. In case anyone does not know, there are these small devices, mostly for electric guitars, that go between the guitar and the amplifier that alter the sound of the plain guitar signal. These devices are called guitar pedals. Guitar pedals are electronic devices that alter the incoming signal of a guitar or… Continue reading Philosophy, Guitar Pedals and the Postmodern Condition: An Essay Addressing how the Ideal of Local Control over Global Knowledge is the Problem Embedded into Modern Philosophy
All things being equal, can we say that a person who drinks a couple glasses of wine wine in the evenings has the same mannered reasoning as someone who never drinks alcohol? Marijuana? What about a line of cocaine at lunch, instead of coffee? Vicodin? OxyContin? Herion? Just in the evenings, to take to edge… Continue reading Intoxication and Reason, and philosophy.
Sound and Philosophy. I am a music producer so I have some knowledge about sound and signal. If you are interested in what sound processing entails as a block of concepts, I imagine I might do a little bit on sound and philosophy in a post later. Or you could look on line. But here's… Continue reading Analogue vs Digital Philosophy.
Prof Bryant has an interesting post today. And it inspired me to comment, below: As I taught Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics today, I emphasized the manner in which so many of the virtues he lists are social in nature. Although we intuitively value many of the virtues Aristotle lists, I don’t think it would occur to… Continue reading Larval Subjects, the Impetus for Communication and the Common Thought of the Past.
When we look at what Philosophy does through history, we might see that it is a more complicit role than a activist role. Philosophies of activism are necessarily divisional, so we can understand why philosophy appears more complicit. When we attempt to situate ethics in such complicitphilosophies, we may find that there has been an… Continue reading The Postmodern Ethical Dilemma.
A Comment Upon Zizek’s Recent Talk in Spain, June 2017. Reality, Naivety and Addiction. * I know that everyone likes to have an opinion, and they also like for everyone else to have an opinion – no; they demand that what anyone has to say is an opinion. I ask: What happens when someone… Continue reading Reality, Naivety and Addiction in 3 parts. PART 1.
