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2026-03-24 09:19:56 UTC

reading this, Francois Jullien The philosophy of living... #philosophy
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2026-03-22 14:03:20 UTC

in case you didn’t know already i have little respect for people using the words; best, greatest, genius and synonyms in relation to literary texts (or anything else for that matter) … you should never use such ludicrous concepts about writing of any kind… it is never appropriate, mere ideology #philosophy

2026-03-19 17:32:28 UTC

what is good in the 21st C is defined by the Empire... from the colour of the sky, the meaning of AI to genocide... that is the nature of state morality. #philosophy state morality is always reactionary

2026-03-16 13:09:01 UTC

and then nobody has mentioned the obvious difference between Adorno, Benjamin, Horkheimer and Habermas - which is that the German state wanted to kill them and did succeed in killing Benjamin... whereas Habermas became a liberal (denier of genocide...) #philosophy

2026-03-16 13:05:39 UTC

these days because of my failing body, it's going to be old old in the middle of the year, so i'm sort of disabled, though i'd never say that, being just old... i confess to feeling that the mind-body split is a description of aging... i am be default anti-cartesian but still my aging recognises the split as fact... #philosophy

2026-03-13 11:30:44 UTC

Agamben: A country was attacked without any real reason and by treachery, while negotiations were being feigned, and its spiritual leader was assassinated. The European community—or that illegitimate organization bearing this name—not only failed to condemn an open violation of international law, committed by two countries that seem to have lost all sense of self and all responsibility, but also ordered the Iranian people to cease defending themselves. #politics #philosophy true

2026-03-09 10:32:31 UTC

there are words, concepts that are so ideologically loaded, that nobody, (whether human or our machines,) should use them… our seeming addiction to these ideological concepts, the assemblages they identify, are precisely why we should edit them from our vocabularlies… #philosophy and #politics and #writing

2026-03-07 11:43:44 UTC

In the society of the spectacle images like words have mostly been drained of actuality and meaning... a picture of bombs exploding in Tel Aviv, Tehran, a desert somewhere.. we cannot know if they are actual explosions... We may hope that Iran will be victorius and survive, but we also know the spectacle was drained of truth before we were born. #philosophy #politics

2026-03-04 00:23:39 UTC

religion and religious ideologies are a terrible idea #philosophy

2026-03-02 14:57:54 UTC

my slow reading of Kojeve;s Introduction to the reading of Hegel,especially his outline of the master/slave dialectic is exquiste reading as the bombs and missiles fly from the US and Israel into Iran...#philosophy #politics

2026-03-01 13:57:25 UTC

critiques of the philosophy of the right to kill, necessary reading in wartime during an imperial war, late capitalist fascism is a very unpleasant world to live in... #politics #philosophy
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2026-02-19 08:40:08 UTC

One of the mistaken philosophers in the history of modern philosophy is Levinas... the ideologies he subscribed to ruined his ability to think... it is in fact worse than this #philosophy

2026-02-04 15:29:01 UTC

there are theories that come to nothing much, not enough anyway. Such things are frequently outside of science and philosophjy, but not always. They are often talked and written about but they are never clear, consistant and well considered. They are often pointless and ultimately obscure... I am sure you can name a new of these yourself. #philosophy

2026-02-02 10:45:06 UTC

I am enjoying reading about the rightwing marxist and stalinist who helped established the EU… sadly the EU has not turned out as well as it could have … #philosophy

2026-01-30 11:31:51 UTC

So Lefebvre and Lenin then
“ There is no reason not to quote Lenin again ‘The beginning - the most most simple, ordinary, mass, immediate "Being”: the single commodity (Sein in political economy). The analysis of it as a social relation. A double analysis, deductive and inductive - logical and historical…“ …Henri Lefebvre quoting from Lenin’s On the Question of Dialectics.
#marxism #spectacle #being #dialectics everyday life #politics #philosophy

2026-01-29 13:26:51 UTC

i am enjoying reading the Boris Groys book on Alexandrfe Kojeve... it's strange how my overiding impression is that he could only write and think like that in the period he lived in 1902-1968 in neoliberalism it would have been impossible. #poitics #philosophy

2026-01-22 22:26:56 UTC

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so your idealism, as in the ideal liberalism is ok, but a socialist/communism is not?

2026-01-22 17:33:35 UTC

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Reparations, certainly that is what communism requires, and for the unpaid labour of women and the people of the south, the redistribution of wealth downwards... along with a Natural Contract..all of which is authoritarian

2026-01-21 12:36:53 UTC

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- everything is political, which can be interpreted as follows Capitalism does not begin with production, patriarchy with domesic labour, slavery with exploitation, but with the prior distribution of power between classes determined by war, violent appropriation and force. (Lazzarato on D&G) All of which re necessary for capital and liberalism to exist, hence the impossibility of the partial critique of postcapitalism..

2026-01-21 12:31:17 UTC

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It assumes that capitalism and liberal democracy can be remade into something that is less destructive - however any such reconstruction will be less liberal and more authoritarian simply because of the iron lawas of capitalism....

2026-01-21 11:48:48 UTC

I'm giving a copy of Butler's Gender TRouble to my granddaughter who is reading it for her A Level course. She will be the third person to read this copy of the book - me, my dai=ghter and her child.. I supply a rubber with he book so she can remove any pencil underlinings... #philosophy #micropolitics....

2026-01-20 09:29:17 UTC

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this interests me “ rightwing liberals are alienist” Which presumes that left-liberals are not … Because its clear that within late capitalism anything can be commodified.

2026-01-19 10:41:16 UTC

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which is to say that inalienable rightd is an idealist fiction. Liberalism may claim such human rights exist, but in actuality they do not - as colonialism, slavery and racism shows on a daily basis. Acxtual Liberalism and capitalism are inseperable and have been since the 17th C.... #philosophy #politics

2026-01-19 09:13:11 UTC

the sadness of social media is that there is both moral panics and fashion, at the moment on the one side AI and on the other Tooze... everything passes #philosophy #media

2026-01-17 16:41:48 UTC

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that is true, however its an idealism which bears no relationship to actually existing liberalism. We should always ask liberals of the left and right where there criticisms are of actually existing liberals, in the UK we refer to recent liberals like: Blair, Starmer, Thatcher, Cameron etcetera…

2026-01-17 16:26:23 UTC

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perhaps it depemds on how you understand liberalism, from hobbes to the present, and with its history of colonialism, slavery, class, concentration and centralization of production, power and destruction... actually existing liberalism is always authoritarian

2026-01-17 16:15:00 UTC

one of the points where Lazzarato's conceptual pparatus fails is in his understanding of "neoliberalism has nothing liberal about it" (Lazzarato) ... #philosophy

2026-01-14 13:17:15 UTC

The concept of suicide is best understood as referring not to humanity but to this intolerable civilisation.. #philosophy
From: [@juergen_hubert](https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert )
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2026-01-14 13:13:07 UTC

bulletin de philosophies medieval 67 #philosophy
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2026-01-08 16:14:44 UTC

if: <Theory is ethical violence of the intangible> as Chus Pato says then what is theory that is not violent? #philosophy

2026-01-02 13:39:56 UTC

the corruption of language, as the marxist #philosophy of language shows: we are supposed to say a country (the usa) that bombed 3 continents and 12 nations in 2025 and blackmailed 30 others is … "isolationist"

2025-12-31 14:49:20 UTC

I have never liked Emmanuel Levinas as much as others have. I reject in its entirity his Talmudic readings and his concern for a Jewish “universal ethics.” As for the versions of Israel and Zioniam... simply hideous #philosophy

2025-12-29 09:47:33 UTC

What i particularly like about Brecht's julius Ceasar is the slavery and money, the discussion of enslavement and how this enabled the Roman empire... #philosophy
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2025-12-22 13:22:34 UTC

the concept of (War Criminal) no longer has any meaning, to think it does is nostalgia in our societies, run as they are by upper classes who need War and Capital… Equally the concept of human rights (Zizek’s paper on human rights was True), equality and so on no longer has any meaning. #politics #philosophy… these bourgeois concepts have to go…

2025-12-22 13:06:33 UTC

at this point, in this moment, i expect everyone to understand the (21stC variety) fascistic nature of the UK labour party... they are brownshirts... inevitably evolving into the blackshirts of Reform. The institutions that might have saved us from this have all failed us. #politics #philosophy.

2025-12-17 13:31:41 UTC

slightly amused to see moral judgement being passed on Bertrand Russell because of marriages and divorces, i had thought that we were supposed to condemn, or at least criticise the nuclear and extended family… but evidently not as closet reactionaries use it to thinkingly criticise Russell (as a conceptual persona) #philosophy

2025-12-16 11:27:22 UTC

The idea of life for Nietzsche, ‘is not reducible to the biological, but forms an immanent principle that encompasses society and culture’ (Lundy) #philosophy

2025-12-15 11:12:00 UTC

i wonder if you can see this:
Translati ng Deleuze on the uses of Deleuze in a non-western context.
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/dls.2013.0114
#philosophy #politics

2025-12-14 15:54:24 UTC

The spectacle, as the present social organisation of the paralysis of history and memory, of the abandonment
of history built on the foundation of historical time, is the false consciousness of time…((158) Debord). #philosophy @npub1su2…5yde

2025-12-14 13:51:10 UTC

Given that both Kojeve and the Kantian ideal of the EU are "dead in the water"
how to understand it now? #politics #eu #philosophy

2025-12-14 11:50:07 UTC

"There is a universal value for us in reflection upon the relationship between Hegel and Marx" (Hyppolite) #philosophy

2025-12-12 11:04:25 UTC

Our choices and decisions are based on cognitive biases as well as noise, which is, on decision-making principles that are arrived at according to irrational rules. #noise #philosophy

2025-12-01 14:52:25 UTC

There is No Such Thing As Cultural Identity Francois Jullien #philosophy #identity
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2025-11-16 10:35:40 UTC

“We enjoy sinning against language because the violence we impose on its structure is what makes it alive.” ((The Violence of Language)
Jean-Jacques Lecercle) #philosophy

2025-11-15 11:22:56 UTC

The profound danger of AI is thatbecause all machines involve infernal exercises, productions and organisational systems that prevent thinking. They stifle and freeze thought. The desire to think and to live is stifled. There are certainly dimensions in which machines equally make us desire... but AI is not one of these... #philosophy #AI

2025-11-14 11:23:28 UTC

I read a facebook text this morning from an American post-grad blaming anti-Zionism on the Soviet Union. He did not mean to confess his fidelity to the Soviet state and 1917, Which is how I initially misread his post, that's what I misunderstood. Only afterwards did I realise that he was expressing his fidelity to the Israel committing genocide... It would take more than a reeducation camp to fix him... Imagine letting someone with such bizarre opinions near your children...
#philosophy

2025-11-05 08:54:02 UTC

Good work.. Was Marx right? Development and exploitation in 43 countries, 2000–2014 - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X23001753
#politics #philosophy

2025-11-03 10:56:18 UTC

there are no assemblages that are unrelated to political economy, it is because of this that liberal and conservative readings of Deleuze and Guattari fail. #philosophy

2025-10-31 11:36:37 UTC

Simple Sentences: two versions one machine translation one human....
simple sentences
while I stand, the shadow falls
the morning sun sketches the first drawing
blossoming is a deadly business
I have agreed
I live
simple sentences
as I stand my shadow falls
the first drawing is sketched by the morning sun
to flower is a deadly occupation
i have declared myself to be in agreement
I live
#philosophy #poetics

2025-10-29 10:45:21 UTC

if the AI system you are working on has military or control society applications (see Israel’s genocide and facial recognition software) then YOU are an unethical person. (i don’t care about the use of AI in creative industries, which will be pure spectacle after all) #philosophy #politics #AI

2025-10-27 09:03:17 UTC

my dislike and distrust of spectacle workers began in the 1970s and 1980s, once you know how the media works you can know longer believe a single word that the media, any media produces. To believe a worker in the spectacle worker is to prove you don’t understand it… #politics #philosophy

2025-10-23 14:19:34 UTC

Lazzarato is very good and accurate in the failings of Foucault's work - he was after all wrong about Power, ordoliberalism, neoliberalism and consequently on contemporary capitalism #philosophy the central error can be described as Foucault's concepts of capital and capitalism are wrong. #philosophy

2025-10-23 14:15:15 UTC

with the passing of neoliberalism "the ipossibility of globalization manifests itself through class polarizations with the nation, and polarizations between states in the world market, NATIONALISM is the obvious political solution, but one that that always proves dangerous, fascist and nazi territorialization is the danger that hangs over all nationalisms..." (Lazzarato ) #politics #philosophy

2025-10-19 17:17:52 UTC

Serres thought that the Hobbesian “war of all against all” would never take place, in 2025 in our illiberal times it looks like Hobbes has become essential if you want to know the reasons for Imperial wars #philosophy

2025-10-19 16:05:07 UTC

my world is limited by the limits of my language (of what I can say and name), then this sentence can also be turned around. In the limitation that a complex of namings experiences, I experience a world. I experience this world by repeating the language through whose limitation I experience it.... language as ideology and discourse #philosophy

2025-10-19 13:03:27 UTC

one of the questions that is more or less posed here is. The question of whether literature is something as it has always been (perhaps with certain historical limitations, but still intact, as they say) or whether it represents something that needs to be assessed in a completely new way. I think the latter... #philosophy

2025-10-18 15:23:55 UTC

I just published i hate epistemology https://medium.com/p/i-hate-epistemology-64c3c409fcbe?source=social.tw #philosophy #fiction

2025-10-15 10:55:31 UTC

you live in a state that has a neo-fascist government, e.g. (USA, UK, Italy etc…) and you receive forms that ask you to identify yourself… as a micro-political ethical act:>> you shouldn’t tell them the truth. #politics #philosophy…

2025-10-14 17:42:25 UTC

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I looked at the new world mag, its clear that these (illiberal) charlatans should be closed down… @npub12pw…zvxn

2025-10-14 12:00:23 UTC

i ache, parts of me quiver with fatigue; the phrase "bodies and language" which is so to speak a subset of "ideology and discourse" is inherently alienating... an aspect of everydayness is inherently alienating. #philosophy

2025-10-12 12:38:23 UTC

laughs… the weirdness of tech dystopias, there is NO need for sentience if you live forever… #philosophy
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2025-10-11 20:13:04 UTC

after Israels Western supported GENOCIDE, we have to change our approach to western politics, why ? There could be 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050. #politics #philosophy

2025-10-09 11:12:28 UTC

tried reading an introductory text on Stoicism (which I will never finish, hospital reading) from an analytical perspective... so different from the tradition I exist within... Deleuze Eighteenth series of the three images of philosophers... #philosophy hey ho...

2025-10-08 11:19:34 UTC

Of course these things are not "real" they are constructs, so that the problem with the pessimistic conceptions of political anthropology, however, is that after dismissing any fundamental goodness, they pose evil as a fundamental and invariable... whereas it is a construct, an ideological construct... which is why the very notion of a "Realist perspective" is both ludicrous and implausible (4)_ #philosophy

2025-10-08 11:13:10 UTC

Realist perspectives descended from H and P, with its mandate for political thought to understand humanity as it is, not as we want it to be, are extremely important.... Humans are neither naturally good nor naturally bad. The ambivalence implied here can take negative as well as positive forms. In fact people struggle for their servitude, as Spinoza says, as if it were their salvation. (see Israel and zionist jews for example) (3) #philosophy

2025-10-08 11:07:55 UTC

For H and P and realist perspectives a political anthropology based on love, which does not take into account the evil that lurks in human hearts, is naïve. Believing that people are what we want them to be and that human nature is fundamentally good is dangerous, in fact, because it undermines the political and conceptual tools necessary to confront and restrain evil. It is problematic and dangerous... #philosophy (2)

2025-10-08 11:03:38 UTC

#commons: people do not act on the basis of love, and they often destroy the common. Should we then assume that humans are not good, to conceive of them as evil? Indeed such a "realist" or, really, pessimistic position is the dominant view in Euro-Atlantic political philosophy, from Hobbes's notion of a "war of all against all" to Plessner's proposition of a political anthropology in which humans are characterized by "potentially unlimited intraspecies aggressiveness... (1) #philosophy

2025-10-07 10:25:15 UTC

"The spectacle, as the present social organisation of the paralysis of history and memory, of the abandonment of history built on the foundations of historical time, is the false consciousness of time..." (158) Debord #philosophy

2025-10-06 10:42:11 UTC

to state as I do, and propose that 'everything is political' is to indirectly to say that it the logic is 'fuzzy', that it (any it) cannot be reduced to a binary... #philosophy

2025-10-06 10:30:15 UTC

I think that #philosophy should invent new ways of thinking and living. It should learn from the past, but above all invent the future. We all have firsthand experience of the horrors of the world we live in but should not lose hope. //. and this is why philosophy like everything else is always political #politics

2025-10-06 10:21:09 UTC

A concept that should be born in mind: a few pages into the first section of the parasite Serres says, ‘I am using wordsthat have deviated slightly from their usual sense’ This observation applies generally in Serres’s work, and should be applied as a way of reading words and signs.... #philosophy #serres

2025-10-06 08:54:14 UTC

the last two boosts are sufficient evidence for the conceptual analysis of War and Capital #philosophy #politics

2025-10-05 09:29:15 UTC

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still I think with direct democracy that you need to establish what cannot be voted on...

2025-10-05 09:23:56 UTC

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illiberalism is a liberalism, just as neoliberalism was a liberalism as was the Keynesian post-war consensus.... so Malik's project is doomed to fail

2025-08-30 21:45:33 UTC

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i would have said Marx, Engels and perhaps Nietzsche myself…