In ‘Beyond Good and Evil’, Friedrich Nietzsche (58-74) lists a number of ‘Epigrams and entr’actes’. In this essay, I will focus on a couple of them, largely for the reason that unlike many scientists and scholars, I have had the privilege of teaching people. I appreciate how he gets to the point immediately. It’s just […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]