Originally posted by 4inquiries at Miller on Philosophical Anthropology
From “Another Lacan”: http://www.lacan.com/thesymptom/?p=1Read more... )

Originally posted by 4inquiries at Fassbinder on the Uncanny
From Burns’ “Fassbinder’s Angst essen Seele auf - a melo Brechtian drama”:

Brecht intended to remove emotional investments (qua familiarity) from theatrical performances because he wanted to keep the audience in a critical state of mind about the things they are watching. The filmmaker Fassbinder ( Read more... )

Compare this: (Coachella Festival, California)


( Read more... )

My love of British Lit has left me devoid of knowledge of American artistic / cultural movements.  Thus, I found the parallelism between George Washington and Queen Victoria interesting.

http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/exhibition/gothic-goth-embracing-dark-side

It might be said that death, art, and fashion went hand in hand in America in the ( Read more... )

Originally posted by 4inquiries at Schopenhauer on Love
From "Metaphysics of Love":

Schopenhauer argues that love is (really) the individual human experience of a universal human impulse to procreate, and further that procreation should be (ideally) between a man and woman who are compliments of one another, in order to form a neutral product. The first ( Read more... )

Originally posted by 4inquiriesat Nietzsche on Unity
From “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”:

“This peace treaty [the social contract quelling the war of all against all] brings in its wake something which appears to be the first step toward acquiring that puzzling truth drive: to wit, that which shall count as ‘truth’ from now on is established. That is ( Read more... )

Originally posted by anosognosiaat economics and philosophy
It's interesting watching the varied reactions to the surprising success of Ron Paul's campaign in the Republican party.

I've always believed that a knowledge of liberal economics is an important asset for progressives, and that certain traditions in liberal economics sincerely pursue and have ( Read more... )

I have been reduced to encounters with a second party through the medium of a third party - you know, one of those situations where you post your own thoughts on a third party board and you know the second party is reading them because he uses your words, expands his likes to encorporate yours and begins to sound like the perfect mate for you ( ( Read more... )

Many people associate sex with death, but very rare is the individual who associates sex and chess ( Read more... )

The transition between part I and II is stark but I'm not bothering with it - I'm lazy ( Read more... )