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Putting things into perspective

I was gonna write another essay on parasitism, not because I had a whole lot to say about that after the previous essay, except that reading Michel Serres’ ‘Parasite’ also gave me some heavy Baruch Spinoza vibes. I guess that’s worth it’s own essay, but, well, we’ll see if I ever get around to write […]

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Talk is cheap

This essay was prompted by getting a flu and suffering through it, as you do, because there isn’t much you can do about it. Okay, it could have been another strain of COVID, or RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, as was they were making rounds recently. Anyway, it was … let’s say … not great. I […]

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Hindsight 20/23

I had plans for this month, to provide a proper essay, but that didn’t work out as I was kept occupied by three things. I’ll go through them, before I map out what I hope to accomplish, hopefully sooner than later. Firstly, and most obviously, I had to make sure that the students get their […]

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Science is like philosophy, but backwards

If you’ve read their other works, it shouldn’t surprise how Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari conclude their final book, ‘What Is Philosophy?’. For them (201), most people are conformists. Why? Well, because life is easier that way. People are happy to repeat what others have said, over and over again, instead of trying to come […]

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Not one but three

I tend to write on whatever Gilles Deleuze and/or Félix Guattari have written or I somehow end up on some tangent that pertains to their work, typically in connection with either discourse or landscape. That’s partly because those are included in the name of this blog. I haven’t really focused on other topics that they’ve […]

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Whores or halls?

I had some more Baruch Spinoza in store for you for this month, but, as you’ll notice, I went with something a lot less challenging instead. This is, arguably, way more fun though, so there’s that this time around. This is also way shorter, so there’s that as well, in case you prefer the shorter […]

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Good work

This month flew by, that’s for sure. I mainly spent it working on a couple of articles. I also spent tens of hours playing a video game. Oh, and what a treat it was, to just play and play, like … no … not like there’s no tomorrow … but like today is, suddenly, already, […]

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Concrete mixtures

I didn’t plan on this, really, like at all. Then again, this is something that has bothered me for a long time, so I knew that I’d bring it up at some point. Anyway, so, landscape is a visual concept. It may not have been that way, like way back, as I’ve discussed in the […]

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Hang on, this isn’t structuralism! Or is it?

It took me a couple of weeks to get everything done, even though I only had like 10 pages left to cover. Yeah, I ended up on all kinds of tangents. Anyway, this time I’ll be going through ‘How Do We Recognize Structuralism?’ by Gilles Deleuze. It can be found in ‘Desert Islands and Other […]

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In the meanwhine

I was supposed to move on to Gilles Deleuze’s take on structuralism, but, well, shit, I didn’t manage to get it done on time. I want to write something every month. I’ve done that every month since May 2017, so about six years, and I have no intention to abandon that. Don’t get me wrong […]