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 […]
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 […]
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All roads lead to Athens
I’ve mentioned structuralism a number of times, occasionally going on a tangent about it, but I haven’t really explained it, nor why it gets rejected by, well, just about everyone except, perhaps, linguists. Perhaps it is time to do that and then, later on, contrast it with what became known as post-structuralism (but that’s something […]
Once again, I planned to write on other things, and I did. It’s just that I never finished those essays and ended up writing something else, which is this. Anyway, so I ended up focusing on what Deborah Cameron refers to as verbal hygiene in her book that carries that as its name, ‘Verbal Hygiene’. […]
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Ravings of a rambler
Last time I wrote on what Friedrich Nietzsche thinks of much of western philosophy, with a lengthy, yet long overdue tangent on priests. I was going to write a separate essay on them and I believe I had something in the works, an unfinished essay where that was going to be brought up, in detail, […]
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I am the law, or so he keeps saying
Friedrich Nietzsche summarizes the development of Western philosophy, that is to say according to how we think, in ‘How the “True World” Finally Became a Fiction: History of an Error’, as contained in ‘Twilight of the Idols: Or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer’. This is a fascinating … what to call it … a […]
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You are not what you think you are
I’ve explained how Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari deal with identity and subjectivity, but I think a bit of repetition won’t hurt. I’ll try to keep this as simple as possible, like I did in the previous essay, trying to avoid their jargon as much as possible, even though that’s quite tricky, considering how complex […]
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Fuck-a-doodle-doo
I had planned to return to actually address what Félix Guattari thought of Michel Foucault’s work, but … surprise, surprise … I’m not going to do that here. That’ll have to wait a bit more. I actually got quite far with it, but then I got sidetracked with a lot of other stuff. It’s exam […]