How should we live? Or how might we live? Friedrich Nietzsche accepts the latter formulation and rejects the former formulation, as discussed by him in ‘The Four Great Errors’, which can be found in ‘The Twilight of Idols’. To make sense of this, he lists and goes through these four grave errors. The first error […]
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What do children have to do with landscapes? Well, not much really, considering that no one sees the world as a landscape when they are born. It’s the adults who teach them to see the world that way. This is actually a topic that really hasn’t been investigated by landscape researchers. I could be wrong, […]
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The unstoppable revolution
I enjoy selecting something and then writing something about it, as I read it. I particularly like Félix Guattari’s essays, because it’s like you just have something, about something, and that’s it. Okay, I can kind of guess what he might have written, without even looking at the titles, there’s that, fair enough, but the […]
Once more I’m going to check out something short, ‘Subjectless Action’ by Félix Guattari, a psychoanalysis and semiotics conference presentation that took place in 1974. Now, you don’t need to know a whole lot about his work, or the works of Gilles Deleuze or Michel Foucault, to name a few, to figure out what this […]
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How old am I?
What do I have in store for you this month? Well, it has to do with age or, rather, what’s considered age appropriate. I believe this is where I left off in a previous essay, so I think it makes sense to do this. Plus, as you may know, I’m currently employed in a teaching […]
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We’ll fix it in post
I don’t know what it is that I was looking for, but somehow I ended up looking up posthumanism and linguistics. Anyway, I landed on Adrian Pablé’s article, ‘Linguistics for the apocalypse’, in which he proclaims that linguistics is doomed, because of, well, what he seems to think is nonsense. What is he (104) referring […]
I wanted to write something different from the last three essays that focus on politics. I chose a random book chapter, which can be found in ‘Molecular Revolution in Brazil’ by Félix Guattari and Suely Rolnik. Its title is ‘Emotion, Energy, Body, Sex’. It’s short, what, ten pages or so that it should be a […]
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What’s a black job anyway?
The last two essays were kind of throwback, as I pointed out. Plus, while they weren’t all over the place, which is very unlike me, I know, at least I had fun. Anyway, you don’t need to read those to realize how it went for Joe Biden and for Donald Trump. It was fair to […]
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The second half of the rematch
I was working on this essay before Joe Biden withdrew from the next US Presidential elections and before Donald Trump nearly got assassinated, so it reflects the situation back then. But, before I continue to assess the second half of their, I guess by now, infamous first and last debate of the upcoming elections, I […]
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The first half of the rematch
I wasn’t planning on this, writing something about the first US Presidential election debate between the current US President, Joe Biden, and the previous US President, Donald Trump, but I thought why not. I mean it’s topical and something that I can do, off the cuff. Plus, as I believe I have mentioned before, I […]