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2025-10-04 13:24:27 UTC

some knowingly or unknowingly follow Hobbes “the war of all against all” however others live after Spinoza undersrand that people “often struggle for their servitude as if it was their salvation” as Spinoza proposed… #philosophy

2025-10-03 11:52:28 UTC

social media as spectacle is the contination of the processes of capital. Which is to say its a reterritorialization of the ground we live on. It is because of this reterritorialization that the social machines that make up the spectacle, (the network spectacle) can exist. 1/2 #philosophy #politics

2025-09-30 16:24:58 UTC

the term, the concept of "social" is as ideologically loaded as the terms "popular" and "mass" have always been #philosophy

2025-09-28 10:47:38 UTC

the assemblage of a natural contract/nomadism/politics(everything is political)/limits is unavoidable #philosophy #politics

2025-09-17 11:29:49 UTC

Literature is fighting for its life, searching for new genres. That must be the conclusion, given the desolation of our contemporary culture. Boris Eichenbaum 1924 - #philosophy #literature

2025-09-09 10:57:35 UTC

when i say "soft crisis " i am referring at heart to the Marx's law of the tendencies of the rate of profit to fall (all soft crises are grounded in this). When i say "hard crisis" i am referring to such limits to growth as the climate, the limits which industrial society cannot exceed... the mass extinction event is a typical variant. #philosophy

2025-09-08 10:30:29 UTC

There is no event except in the plural, the event is always at least two. In other words, the event is less the absolute occurrence of a birth on the background of negativity (nothingness) than a becoming in which the before and after spring forth at the same time, on either side of ceasura that thought cannot reduce. In addition the event, always plural and preceded by other events, does not, as in phenomenological thought, have the character of an advent. (Z on Deleuze) #philosophy

2025-08-31 10:00:26 UTC

cleaning the image shelf in my office, i found the Deleuze lineage map (surnames as conceptula persona) and concepts.... on the back the serres equivalent...#philosophy one day i'll find the theory of crises map

2025-08-30 08:04:03 UTC

all fossil fuel exploration and extracrion is the enemy of humanity… #politics and #philosophy.

2025-08-28 09:42:55 UTC

In the dictionary of untranslatables: there is a Barbara Cassin reference "Cassin had already described the the 'untranslatable' to the interminability of translating: the idea that one can never have done with translating" This relates to the instability of meaning and sense-making, the performative aspects of reading and the temporarality of #translation... #philosophy

2025-08-26 09:34:38 UTC

I published a translation of Prerequisites by Heissenbuttel some times ago ... https://medium.com/p/prerequisites-heissenbuttel-5cc5e4765589?source=social.tw #philosophy #theory

2025-08-21 14:28:32 UTC

so CONCEPTS, there is Deleuze; and as Spinoza says, an increase in the power of thought coincides with an increase in the power to act.... Foucault’s comment in the preface to Anti-Oedipus was an introduction to non-fascist life is not a throw-away line. It’s a life-line... by the time I read that at the end of 70s, Marx already gave us that after the first mass. deaths of neoliberalism in 1973... and yet its more. #philosophy

2025-08-19 11:35:24 UTC

10billion dollars is the UK share of this support for the USA political- economy ....
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2025-08-14 08:37:01 UTC

philosophically we may want to say Hobbes - Rousseau - Hegel but the crucial figure, the one who can never ever ever ever have a left variant, unlike Hegel and Rousseau is the founder of bourgeious liberalism Hobbes... (could mention the political economists, smith, ricardo etc but no need) #philosophy

2025-08-13 12:06:35 UTC

i deleted my tumblr account, the only thing i regret is that I lost my list of Modes of Production. I am reresearching it again... interestingly I have had to add a Neanderthal Mode of Production... #politics #philosophy.... nice to have a prehuman mode of production on the list

2025-08-13 10:50:41 UTC

not being a democrat i dislike Corbyn's "determination to overcome sectarianism on the way to forging a truly democratic form of modern socialism" Beleiving in democracy is to remain within the failing liberalisms. (#politics #philosophy

2025-08-09 09:31:43 UTC

one persons utopia is anothers dystopia #philosophy

2025-08-07 10:40:48 UTC

any work of translation or interpretation is equivalent to a political work...
Whether the translation is of an anti-spectacle text , poem or a new translation of capital, a translation is always a political work #philosophy

2025-08-05 17:07:15 UTC

A natural contract, with explicit constraints is a bigger and more crucial contractual relationship with the planet and local space - than the other solutions to the utterly destructive capitalist mode of production such as Degrowth Communism, eco-modernism, Circular economy, Post-Growth... all of which require a natural contract if they are to work... #philosophy

2025-08-03 08:16:24 UTC

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surely the NI number could be used for this purpose… and all UK subjects have one…

2025-08-02 08:41:41 UTC

which takes us to: Whilst #ai systems remain non-sentient they are merely fixed capital assets, constant capital. #spectacle it is only at the point they become sentient that they become variable capital, labour with rights, understandable desires etc. They should, (as a means to avoid the descent into further barbarism), as fixed capital systems, be loaded with taxation costs long before sentient AI systems will be achieved. #politics #philosophy

2025-08-02 08:38:23 UTC

One of my favorite statements in Marx is “It is always cheaper to employ constant capital rather than variable…” and further "constant capital , insofar as this is invested in fixed capital, only the wear and tear goes into the value of the commodity…“ ((Capital Vol 3 Differential Rent II)) There are a great many proofs around this, too which any 21st C person with the smallest understanding of the network society we exist in can add many more. #philosophy #politics

2025-08-01 12:06:14 UTC

what is exploitation? In Marx’s thought exploitation means: to live on the product of the labour of other people… #philosophy

2025-07-28 10:02:38 UTC

as Nietasche said many times, the 'decadent' have chosen what was and will be worst for them. How can this be? Why do they choose this?
(our societies are run by the decadent, deluded they choose illusions.)
not so much #philosophy as the horror of everyday life...

2025-07-28 08:06:52 UTC

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define this thing you speak of

2025-07-27 12:30:49 UTC

so henri lefebvre describes everyday life as “internalised terror” and modern life (advertisements) as terrorist. It exists to instil fear into our bodies and we seek comfort in the products the market can provide. Alienates us from our own bodies; forces us to sell us back to ourselves…. everydayness = alienation #philosophy

2025-07-27 07:45:54 UTC

everything is political. #philosophy. “before being is politics” (Gauttari) @npub15s2…wdxu

2025-07-27 07:41:50 UTC

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my note was directed against process philosophy and not philosophy as such. Though i agree that bourgeois philosophy exists precisely to maintain oppression and make us into willing slaves of capitalism. My primary area of interest and work is in #philosophy and #theory that resists this… which is about our situation.

2025-07-26 14:46:01 UTC

There are many examples why process and procedures are untrustworthy, a simple example is the process through which estimations of the number of people Israel has directly killed, indirectly killed, mortally wounded and allowed to die through famine and disease in Gaza. #process (and) #philosophy are pointless and do not work.

2025-07-26 14:34:32 UTC

You can never trust processes and procedures, nor those people who believe in process. The consequence of this is that you can never trust #process #philosophy

2025-07-21 10:13:00 UTC

generally and very postmodernly I think all human cultures are equally repulsive, from any era of human and pre-human history. This is an aspect of #Deleuze and Guattari's work in Capitalism and Schziophrenia, our culture, this place in Europe where I'm sitting at a desk typing this, is only understandable through money and capital. To understand the central importance of money is to recognize War and Money/Capital... #philosophy

2025-07-21 10:01:28 UTC

#Deleuze shared the idea of the central importance of Nietzsche with Foucault and Lefebvre... whilst I may share and understand why they think of Nietzsche as important - I do not share their 'liking' i simply do not like the texts of Nietzsche... (sat in seminars (over the past 40 years) where people have explained why I should.) nonetheless this is a line of thought where the primary texts of N are less than the texts of Deleuze and Lefebvre ... #philosophy

2025-07-20 22:05:54 UTC

working through the huge amount #deleuze and Guattari’s primary texts and then the vast volume of secondary texts of sometimes dubious value…. a long (and) time consuming work… who to avoid? discard? so many… obviously the right deleuzians, anti-marxists, the religious… #philosophy

2025-07-20 17:38:28 UTC

some readers of deleuze become ununderstandable because they take the anti-representationalism literally m, for example denying the use of metaphor whilst using what are obviously metaphors.... #deleuze #philosophy

2025-07-20 13:21:38 UTC

the first book i bought in an actual bookshop is #Soetsu Yanagi’s utilitarian book “ the beauty of everyday things…” (i’m tempted to say mastetpiece but these terms are forbidden) #utilitarianism #philosophy

2025-07-09 09:51:57 UTC

and so Deleuze on palestine..."from the start Israel has never concealed it's goal to empty the Palestinian territory, and even better to act as if the Palestinian territory were empty." In Australia the british, had a name for this terra nullius... Deleuze also said: "This fiction, this wager of Israel's was to make all those who would contest de facto conditions and actions of the Zionist state appear as anti-semites..." (1983/1998) #politics #philosophy

2025-07-08 21:07:55 UTC

the IMF, still believes in “Innovation and integration can revive growth amid sweeping geopolitical change”. really they are not very good at political economy

2025-07-08 13:16:30 UTC

remember that emancipations are incapable of defeating or even countering the endless counterrevolutions of late capital. Its true that they have given us new subjects; women, race, ecologists etc all of who, have given us new practices of freedom. however…… #politics. #philosophy

2025-07-07 11:17:55 UTC

We are now long past the time when the clueless and the irresponsible would say "It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the and of capitalism..." #philosophy

2025-07-07 09:44:15 UTC

usually i think in terms of War and Capital, maintaining the flow of money uphill etc... but Tony Blair's involvement in the Gaza project with extraordinary levels of corruption on show means we have to consider that it's War and Money... not war criminals but capitalism #politics #philosophy the logic on display here is that for the US hegemony war in the Ukraine as well as the Gaza genocide is that capital (and liberalism) requires war to maintain the flow uphill...

2025-07-05 14:19:08 UTC

any new socialist party (UK) that relies on the mass media for publicity in 2025 does not have a viable media strategy. It is not viable because the mass media and the commentariat is only interested in destroying them. #politics

2025-06-26 11:18:07 UTC

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easy, see Kant

2025-06-26 09:47:07 UTC

i am as always a determinist, nothing else makes sense to me: this includes genetic determinism ( i look at the feet of my infant grandchildren, their characters are written in there responses) and my determinism incorporates my constructivism... #philosophy (of course i accept that i simply do not have the faith gene, i accept our mutation, necessary as it is to be part of so many terrible things)....

2025-06-25 11:51:26 UTC

Good piece fromJacobin on tecold war and imperialism... https://jacobin.com/2025/06/us-russia-china-cold-war-rivalries #politics #philosophy @npub1g00…906l

2025-06-19 08:12:50 UTC

the primary source for the MIT paper is here - https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/. They apply it to students and essay writing, BUT its universally applicable… #politics #philosophy #AI

2025-06-19 08:09:19 UTC

oops… what we have all suspected…. MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are interesting. AI isn't making them more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Cognitively empty. we've been measuring productivity incorrectly.
It’s simply a matter of loss of human skills and the division of labour. #politics #philosophy #AI

2025-06-16 08:37:11 UTC

when i read the word “We” in a context like this I know why i dislike the word, its false collectivity, it’s abusive
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2025-06-11 12:08:30 UTC

the thing to remember is that liberals voted for this “Keir Starmer -- "We are moving to warfighting readiness – as the central purpose of our armed forces."” War and Capital… #politics #philosophy

2025-06-11 10:51:31 UTC

identity politics will never recover from Israel and Zionism... it has revealed the darkness that was always possible with identity... to be clear, personally i regret this loss of innocence and wish it had to happen... #philosophy

2025-06-08 14:37:49 UTC

name words (smallest ideological units) that have had there meanings amended to support different and usually reactionary ideological positions: anti-semitism, radical, identity. … #philosophy

2025-06-08 13:40:39 UTC

words, being the small ideological units, are always capable of having their meanings changed… #philosophy

2025-05-31 15:03:58 UTC

what literature will be remembered into the far future? I sometimes wonder about that... Will it be Robbe-Grillet or Boyd or is more likely to be Van Vogt, say: the worlds of null-A and the concept of nexialism? or the Strugatski Brothers ? (Not cyber punk which has no concept of governance in its hideous future, always teetering on the edge of fascism...) You may think of other lines... but this concept seems real enough... #philosophy

2025-05-29 10:21:40 UTC

the strange and stupid thing about the coming “technological singularity” is that the faithful believe they’ll notice at the time and (and its a big AND) that it will represent progress, progress in the sense of the way that their brains are infected by capitalism… Whereas what we definitively know of progress is that its pure spectacle, before its anything else… #philosophy

2025-05-26 10:38:53 UTC

When reading at a diagram, it is worth remembering one of the 'reading rules' of maps - "no map can be perfectly accurate and no map can show more its scale permits" a seemingly simple rule which should be considered in all plateaus, diagramatics and charts... a seemingly simple term is always fuzzy - for example whether its "barbarism", "state" or a map of the "Country" the definitions and readings are always fuzzy. #philosophy

2025-05-21 10:30:23 UTC

this is the best piece of SF so far this year, the AI deserves the Hugo or Nebula award! #SF #philosophy
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2025-05-16 10:16:58 UTC

the individual… and the unravelling of identities… (Serres) #philosophy
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2025-05-15 09:31:19 UTC

a key aspect of this illiberal phase this control society is made explicit in this Labour Govenments position on migrants which is full of immorality & injustice and used as a fascistic control on all of us... you might ask why... #philosophy #politics

2025-05-15 09:28:16 UTC

The 20th century was as Foucault said Deleuzian and now, here we are a quarter of the way into the 21st century and this century is no different as we live in societies of control. #philosophy

2025-05-14 15:08:28 UTC

This phrase "Western democracies" is in itself a denial of the hard constraints of limits to growth, climate change, spectacle. It is finitude on the one hand, and on the other, the multigenerational projects that capitalism and liberalism have left us. To achieve a sustainable natural and social contract, these things have to be dealt with. A natural contract has to accept that a post-growth social contract has these two lines of unavoidable constraints...#philosophy

2025-05-13 10:51:49 UTC

i published deleuze and spring https://sz-duras.medium.com/deleuze-and-spring-b1b01b3cfa70 #philosophy

2025-05-09 14:47:59 UTC

Because of the networks, because of the spectacle because of AI “we live with the presumption of competence” as Serres says.
No longer are we dependent on the knowledge of leaders, politicians, managers, teachers and so in… no for we presume competence. Do you find this dubious and difficult? You should but look at the alternative, what was there before… far worse i suggest. #philosophy

2025-05-09 10:14:24 UTC

had the thought that since he has just died that I'd take a look at the work of Alphonso Lingis... most of the PDF's are behind the academic paywalls... and are hidden from non-academic readers and thinkers. ((I also react badly to the way they keep saying 'American" ... always disliked the use of nationalism in philosophy)) #philosophy

2025-05-08 12:10:21 UTC

rereading this, Serres Thumbelina ... an adequate defence against the moral panic of AI... #philosophy #politics #micropolitics it works
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2025-05-08 10:43:10 UTC

before teaching anything to anyone, we should at least know who our students are. Who is enrolling in our schools, colleges and universities? Serres) #philosophy

2025-05-07 11:19:56 UTC

Language itself, at the moment when it would appear as system and structure, thus move to first place before reflexive thought was attacked by image, a new reality... after (lefebvre)#spectacke #philosophy

2025-05-04 08:30:50 UTC

the written tradition is estranged and in need of new and more vital assimilation; everything that is no longer immediately situated in a world – that is, all tradition, is estranged and depends on the unlocking and motivating spirit that we, like the Greeks, name after Hermes. #philosophy

2025-05-02 10:10:04 UTC

By squandering nuclear energy, polluting asteroids and planets, ravaging the Preserve, and leaving litter everywhere we go, we shall ruin outer space and turn it into one big dump. It is high time we came to our senses and enforced the laws. Convinced that every minute of delay is dangerous. I sound the alarm: Let us save the Universe. (Lem, Let Us Save the Universe) #philosophy #manifesto

2025-04-24 11:20:46 UTC

I open the new Protevi book - Regimes of Violence, its the subtitle that bothers me 'Toward a political anthropology'... the 'toward' ... its a central+philosophical+moment in my practice that everything is political. So how can there be a 'toward' ? There cannot be, it simply has NO meaning for me... #philosophy #politics

2025-04-23 10:07:31 UTC

batman is on my side #philosophy
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2025-04-20 15:55:55 UTC

I reached the end of Massumi’s The personality of power — looking through it, the moment it was most problematic is “The one constant in capitalism’s mode of production is whatever else it is , it is always a mode of production of subjectivity” i need hardly say how mistaken this proposition is… (apart from the absurdith of say “capitalism’s mode of production” #philosophy

2025-04-19 18:24:51 UTC

The Massumi book is fine, however and it's a big caveat - a book writing about 2025 without addressing the total critique of capitalism
and democracy by Marx is never going to be satisfactory #politics #philosophy
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2025-04-10 22:50:48 UTC

The narcissism of the (let us say political) actors we see in the social media public sphere who are capable of extreme symbolic violence, a (narcissistic) violence that has transitioned into the everyday violence of the social, writing its micro-fascism deep into the public sphere, and into the social imaginary. This is now everyday, ordinary. #politics #spectacle #philosophy

2025-04-10 17:27:26 UTC

Sadly PM Starmer being a paranoid psychopath doesn't understand that cooperating with a more powerful psychopath is an error, category error in fact... #politics #philosophy

2025-04-09 12:33:19 UTC

More profoundly, in this world which is officially so respectful of economic necessities, no one ever knows the real cost of anything which is produced, In fact the major part of the real cost is never calculated; and the rest is kept secret…(56 -1988/96 - Debord, comments on the society of the spectacle) --- #philosophy

2025-04-09 12:09:56 UTC

We begin this treatise with an investigation of a flat ontology. or the possible ontology of a flat world, where things are devoid of any kind of intensity. The world explored in Book 1 is the world in which any thing, sensu structo, is equivalent to another thing. Relativists will not breathe easy in this world. This books central claim is that no classical determination [...] is contained in our concept of the most unrestricted, emptiest thing ((Garcia (2014))) #philosophy

2025-03-28 08:54:06 UTC

you might say that the FT piece on Nick Land, shows the terribleness of this generation of right wing philosophers as Nick Land is not a
Heidegger or a Schmitt but still i think of all its/his acolytes....#philosophy

2025-03-27 22:11:14 UTC

The FT piece on Nick Land, Trumpist dark enlightenment - is a disgusting thing indeed… cybernetic fascism. #politics and #philosophy

2025-03-27 00:23:28 UTC

"There is no question here of whether objects of discourse exist independently of the discourses which specify them. Objects of discourse do not exist at all in that sense: they are constituted in and through the discourse which refers to them" (Cutler, Hindess, Hirst, and Hussain 1977, 216-17). #philosophy

2025-03-21 12:06:36 UTC

a distracting phone call - "what makes anyone think that ever increasing levels of automation and (the panic over) AI, will decrease the need for ever increasing levels of human skills and the division of labour. Never has before..."
as a (fan) of human skills and the division of labour, i appreciate this thought. #philosophy

2025-03-14 17:29:50 UTC

Everything is political. Everything is our responsibility. With these phrases we recognize that in turn 'we are beginning to depemnd on them' (serres) and that as a consequence the struggle for dominance will no longer designate a disguished group, a victor, a victor over others and nstead concern the the conflictual relationships we mainain with the world.... Instead we are now facing the kind of natural contract what will end such conflicts? #philosophy #politics

2025-03-14 08:31:01 UTC

interview with Oliver Assouly The economic conversion of creativity and taste… (better version) https://d2mulcrgfv1yq5.cloudfront.net/documents/Interview-O.-Assouly-June-2008.pdf. #philosophy #taste #politics

2025-03-10 11:02:17 UTC

Tnhe crucial axiom for stupidity in philosophy is "The stupid deny their stupidity" (Steinweg, synthesizing it down into a single axiom/phrase) #philosophy

2025-03-07 09:13:58 UTC

two books arrived, one of which, The Jean Hyppolite text is very readable the other i'm not so sure about... #philosophy ideology and discourse
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2025-03-04 09:24:25 UTC

the greatest philosophical problems are war and capital and climate... #philosophy, nearly everything else pales into insignificance

2025-02-27 12:02:45 UTC

140 years ago N wrote the preface for this, and still people speak as if good and evil are definable #philosophy
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2025-02-25 23:01:31 UTC

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seems more like fascism

2025-02-23 13:31:11 UTC

so as an example of the things lost and then found here is an image: (my dream is to stop losing things or at least for them to appear when i notice they are gone…) #philosophy
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2025-02-21 14:02:48 UTC

I was wondering what books or cultural objects we have read, say 20 to 40 years ago that only became important, recently in retrospect... a couple of examples
Barry Hindess & Paul Hirst - Mode of Production and Social Formation (an auto-critique of pre-capitalist modes of production). 1977
and
Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today Volume one ( Cutler, Hindess, Hirst and Hussain (also 1977)
over the last ten years or so they have grown on me... #philosophy #literature
post examples

2025-02-20 16:05:31 UTC

A reported 95.3 percent of the United Kingdom (UK) population were using the internet in 2022, the same share as 2021.
46.6 million people used the internet daily in Great Britain during 2020 according to the United Kingdom's (UK) Office for National Statistics (ONS) #spectacle #politics

2025-02-19 11:54:48 UTC

in the seemingly endless list of utopias that i have compiled - the only response I can have finally, because of how much i do not want to live in any of them is to suggest that the notion of “utopia,” be universally replaced by Samuel Butler’s “Erewhon,” a term that refers simultaneously to “No-where” and “Now-here.” #philosophy

2025-02-15 11:28:07 UTC

i doubt libertarianism can ever recover from this... always philosophically and socially incoherent whether right or left, this situation makes it impossible #philosophy #politics

2025-02-15 09:35:05 UTC

“Many people have an interest in saying that everybody knows “this”, that everybody recognizes this, or that nobody can deny it.
They triumph easily so long as no surly interlocutor appears to reply that he does not wish to be so represented, and that he denies or does not recognize those who speak in his name.
The philosopher, it is true, proceeds with greater disinterest.” #philosophy
(Deleuze: “Difference and Repetition” ch 3)

2025-02-08 21:40:11 UTC

i enjoyed reading Zizek’s piece on substack, however hisvunderstanding of terrorism is much more conservative than Honderich’s or indeed mine… #politics #philosophy

2025-02-06 13:35:28 UTC

"We have transformed our society of the #spectacle into a pedagogical society whose overwhelming competition, willfully ignorant, has eclipsed the school and the university. The media long ago took over the function of teaching— the time when one hears and sees, the time of seduction and consequence." (Serres)... [As a person of the book and a hatred of the spectacle, i understand this but dislike it...] #philosophy

2025-02-06 10:12:03 UTC

of course there are realist arguments... however i am an anti-realist, a constructivist and our problems, given their scale, are not solvable with science and technology...for what is required is to learn how to manage ourselves as we are already respobsible for most things... #philosophy

2025-02-06 10:05:11 UTC

In the present when dealing with techno-science, where science is always openly, explicitly ideological it should be more obvious that (scientific) realism is deeply, inherently problematic. From cosmology, to AI and beyond into economics etc... there is a lack of supporting empirical (phenomenological) evidence... proofs are impossible. #philosophy

2025-02-06 09:53:37 UTC

The most obvious one is the acceptance of unprovable scientific theories as true. One sees a great deal of this in science, and it's even more common in the way people think about science... Whether its Cosmology, Economics, the Human sciences in all areas unprovable scientific theories are acceped as real by someone... #philosophy

2025-02-06 09:34:03 UTC

It used to be said not that many decades ago that modern science was counter intuitive, "different than everyday life" (as Ouspensky put it) - more recently in the 21st C"Speculative" set of philosophies argued for the hard realism of accepting science literally... all apart from OO are epistemological realists... there are some bizarre consequences if you accept scientific realism. #philosophy

2025-02-03 14:24:13 UTC

the worst and most depressing aspect of liberal thinking is the idea that there are no or few Right Wing intellectuals… The default idea of such thinking is that fascist leaders and intellectuals are ignorant and stupid… it is never true. #politics #philosophy

2025-02-02 19:02:27 UTC

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i would expect joining the Euro as a condition of entrance and no ‘discounts’