Archives mensuelles : septembre 2012

This is a text by Bernard Stiegler entitled : CARE: Within the limits of capitalism, economizing means taking care

Adam Kotsko dans un écho voulu de la phrase célèbre « Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus » (Oui, Virginie, il ya un Santa Claus) a lancé la phrase ironique: ‘The problem with that theory, Dominic, is that it doesn’t put … Lire la suite →

Stiegler talks about « the reign of stupidity and of what so often accompanies it: cowardice and viciousness », Feyerabend talks of the reign of the illiteracy of the professionals, Deleuze denounces the reign of cruelty and infantilism. The internet is in … Lire la suite →

Here are recordings of 5 lectures from the course on ‘Media Philosophy’ delivered by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler at Goldsmiths College, University of London in February/March 2012: http://soundcloud.com/katalogx

NAGELED BY AN AUF: Apparently my grouping together of James and Nietzsche was not clear enough, so « ben » asked me a seemingly innocuous question. Quoting a fragment of a sentence I wrote in a long argumentative chain « Here again I … Lire la suite →

In response to my last post, commenting an excerpt from William James’s PSYCHOLOGY: Briefer Course (available for free download here) quoted by Adam Kotsko (here), I was asked to explicate my relating it to Nietzsche’s conception of the will. From … Lire la suite →

Jeff Bell in a very interesting post defends C.S.Peirce from Ernest Nagel’s critique of the very style of his thinking, regretting the impossibility of undoing « the damage which both Peirce and philosophy have suffered when he was not permitted, except … Lire la suite →

Adam Kotsko discusses a quotation from William James’s Psychology: The Briefer Course, ch. 17 “Will you or won’t you have it so?” is the most probing question we are ever asked; we are asked it every hour of the day, … Lire la suite →