tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38808412011-07-15T00:35:26.085ZNewspeakphilnoreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021729519750112004-10-17T14:02:00.000Z2004-10-17T14:02:09.520Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021687199920812004-10-17T14:01:00.000Z2004-10-17T14:01:27.200Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021541529737832004-10-17T13:59:00.000Z2004-10-17T13:59:01.530Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021521305399382004-10-17T13:58:00.000Z2004-10-17T13:58:41.306Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021364637127642004-10-17T13:56:00.000Z2004-10-17T13:56:04.636Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021216799475342004-10-17T13:53:00.001Z2004-10-17T13:53:36.800Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021199018975372004-10-17T13:53:00.000Z2004-10-17T13:53:19.016Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021175525664282004-10-17T13:52:00.002Z2004-10-17T13:52:55.526Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021132592561462004-10-17T13:52:00.001Z2004-10-17T13:52:12.593Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021120747472662004-10-17T13:52:00.000Z2004-10-17T13:52:00.746Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021100232977042004-10-17T13:51:00.001Z2004-10-17T13:51:40.233Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021066670589582004-10-17T13:51:00.000Z2004-10-17T13:51:06.670Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021022645040622004-10-17T13:50:00.001Z2004-10-17T13:50:22.646Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098021002927017132004-10-17T13:50:00.000Z2004-10-17T13:50:02.926Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098020980836049602004-10-17T13:49:00.001Z2004-10-17T13:49:40.836Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1098020944067943152004-10-17T13:49:00.000Z2004-10-17T13:49:04.066Zasdfmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1071757248778168882003-12-18T14:20:00.000Z2003-12-18T14:22:03.280ZLRB re: HiEdBiz
hello tasty- "the populist language that dominates so much discussion in contemporary market democracies is not well adapted to justifying public expenditure in other than economic or utilitarian terms, and it is principally as a form of expenditure - a problematic or resented one - that universities now attract political and media attention." Exactly what it is "...the next stepphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1068138747409796572003-11-06T17:12:00.000Z2003-11-06T17:12:46.043ZNC re "getting with it":
"Since that time, the main body of articulate intellectuals have tended towards one or the other of these poles, avoiding 'democratic dogmatisms' about people understanding their own interests and remaining cognizant of the 'stupidity of the average man' and his need to be led to the better world that his superiors plan for him. A move from one to the other pole can be philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1062149479247896832003-08-29T09:31:00.000Z2003-08-29T09:31:19.186ZManifest gegen die Arbeit:
"Eine auf das irrationale Abstraktum Arbeit zentrierte Gesellschaft entwickelt zwangsläufig die Tendenz zur sozialen Apartheid, wenn der erfolgreiche Verkauf der Ware Arbeitskraft von der Regel zur Ausnahme wird. Alle Fraktionen des parteiübergreifenden Arbeits-Lagers haben diese Logik längst klammheimlich akzeptiert und helfen selber kräftig nach. Sie streiten nicht philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1059677535776629212003-07-31T18:52:00.000Z2003-07-31T18:52:15.740Zphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-1059655718694563212003-07-31T12:48:00.000Z2003-07-31T12:48:38.560ZAldous Huxley, 1958- The Capitalist "Free Press":
Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevantphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-950407962003-05-29T16:54:00.000Z2003-05-30T14:01:19.000ZExactly. Interpretation of reality as "sensuous human activity, practice" resulting in social/political epistemology. Habermas analysing causal relationship between knowledge and interest, to show that reflective critique of knowledge is only possible via social theory (or as I would say, critical analysis = sociopolitical analysis). What is so striking is that this isn't just a matter of mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-950313392003-05-29T12:13:00.000Z2003-05-29T15:14:46.000Zbirth of materialistic killing of god with feuerbach super-sexy! remember moment when this was presented to me at a-level phil of religion.. "Fb suggests that human's may just be imagining god.. enabling Freud.. enabling Jung"- first thought "so much more likely than any of the more elaborate plots i've been exposed to.. its just so obviously correct!" imaginge the moment it ocurred to him.. philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-950308822003-05-29T11:48:00.000Z2003-05-29T14:12:39.000Zre: opium of the people - to preceed below Theses on Feuerbach (and possibly everything that I've posted here):
Feuerbach - The Essence of Christianity
Anthropological interpratation of theology: religion not as priesterly error, but as a human reality. Feuerbach reduces Religion to human consciousness. Absolute, infinite being projected onto god:
I - The Being of Man
"The characteristic mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-949964692003-05-28T17:09:00.000Z2003-05-29T10:55:23.000Zre: open mind
hear hear.. do like that
at a certain level i am certainly with you. from all the negation business there must come some sort of positive step, expression, effort of engagement with the subject matter-
"crystallize into helping others find the right paths"
analysis of individuals transcending any particular naive belief system (it's been done) may point to ways of helping philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-949964492003-05-28T17:08:00.000Z2003-05-28T17:22:27.000ZRyan, I was of course talking about this in a very self-defining way, trying to determine an overall strategy, trying to create a framework from where we can start working something on lounge or other projects - that I thought was purpose of this thing. As this enterprise, or at least so I feel about it, is of activist/political nature these equations below were subject to the political and mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-949949822003-05-28T16:31:00.000Z2003-05-28T16:31:28.496ZDon't have time to post much at the moment - slightly drunk, very tired from grading 300 tests, however just must say this...
I don't believe that all knowledge=politics, nor that all critical analysis can be equated with politics. Indeed, Mike, your crit of wandering afield -
"It's opposition integrated within the system (a bit like capitalist production vs. working class), thus only rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908200760570643463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-949933922003-05-28T15:52:00.000Z2003-05-28T16:16:39.000ZJust to add, famously a la K.M.... the point is not to interpret the world in various ways, but to change it.
I really do think that these new age perspectives, interesting, spiritually aware and informative as they might be, are indicative of an attempt to escape from one-dimensional life dictated by society, but unfortunately without practical utility (unless you want to go for self-urine mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-949888782003-05-28T14:02:00.000Z2003-05-28T15:40:50.000Zhadnt noticed this advanced debate starting off! pleased!
re: open mind
once again, the problem of inadequate self-definition arises. if one is to call this a forum for critical investigation, i.e. hegelian-style rejection of all givens, the philosophical framework adopted here would have to be reflective of the mechanisms involved in dissminating the elements of truth, and the aspects of philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-949834122003-05-28T11:04:00.000Z2003-05-28T11:36:05.000ZThink the question here is about 'usefulness' and other pragmatic considerations. What about activism?
Don't disagree with Ryan, but I personally have this perspective:
knowledge = politics
therefore
critical analysis = political analysis.
Conspiracy T then, is this useful analysis? Like everything, it's a product of status quo. If anything it contains anti-systemic thinking in an 'mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-949517422003-05-27T18:59:00.000Z2003-05-27T18:59:36.830ZAre we to restrain ourselves to politics? I would rather we develop a method of thinking, of getting at truth, than simply be a political organ. Is our main purpose to develop a philosophy? If so, politics has a part (and often a large part) but it cannot be the only ingredient. Critical analysis is more important - keeping heads receptive to all things and playing with them as we would a rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908200760570643463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-949366722003-05-27T12:28:00.000Z2006-01-17T17:50:21.816Zwe want a developed political stance! no p-m nonsecock.. self-definition.. working on it!offshore company formation bank account nominee director signatoryphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-948915732003-05-26T10:29:00.001Z2003-05-26T10:29:28.436ZColer: Well, this one I don't think we need to take too much to heart. Checkin his blog, he seems more interested in the simple easy-to-produce labels, like "I'm an American living in Japan teaching English. I like to talk Buddhism and Politics. Ba-yee!" however, it does raise many important questions. I like takin them to newspeak and exploring - it's important to have a strategy when the mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880841.post-948915612003-05-26T10:29:00.000Z2003-05-26T10:29:05.903ZPhil: well this question comes up every so often does it not. am just reading a bit of trotsky's 'revolution betrayed'- i won't accept an "i'm an ecowarrior, i don't believe that class exists, leave saving world to NGOs" in impressum i'm afraid.
i am looking forward to further discussion of this issue.mikenoreply@blogger.com