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 […]
I’ve written about Michel Foucault’s work, going through his best-known work, focusing on a number of concepts that are, one way or another, related to his concepts of power and power relations, including but not limited to discipline, biopower, govermentality, panopticism, as well as discourse, including but not limited to knowledge, episteme, regime of truth, […]
So, yeah, this is not the essay you were looking for (unless it is the essay you were looking for) because in the last essay I stated that I’d most likely be finishing what I started last month. If that’s what you were looking for, then this is not it. This is what I came […]
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The Fascist Subject
I was planning on writing something else, which I did and nearly finished that, but as I was going through some texts, Mark Seem’s introduction to Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s ‘Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’ caught my attention as the first pages mentions “The Anti-Ego”. I mean I’ve seen the page before, no doubt about […]
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Id is what id is
This time I’ll be dealing with machines as that’s all there is, as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2) argue in ‘Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’. I could explain this by using the term they use in ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’, that is to say assemblages, as all they (22) know are assemblages, but […]
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In the meanwhile
I didn’t get manage to find a lot of time to write the next essay, so this will be short. It’ll be more like catching up, mixed with elaborating what I might be doing next. I hope you don’t mind, although not that you have any saying on that, this being my platform, not yours. […]