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 […]
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 thought I’d do something short(er) this time, but, as you’ll quickly notice, that didn’t happen. I had gone through this text before and thought I’d be able to make a quick summary of it, highlighting what I like about it, while also providing some related commentary. I honestly didn’t realize how good this text […]
I was going to write on something else, what I have to say about Gabriel Tarde and Guy Debord, and to get the recaps on the ADDA 2 conference done, sooner than later, but then I got some bad news. Well, not really bad news. I didn’t mind, really. Happens. It actually led me to […]
I was going to continue on this in the previous essay but then I thought that it’d be better to do a split instead. So, I’m picking up where I left off, examining the English translation of Gilles Deleuze’s book ‘Logique du sens’, ‘The Logic of Sense’. Why? Because, well, in the absence of meaning, […]
I pointed out in an earlier essay that mimesis is something that I haven’t covered, yet should cover. Why? Well, it’s just that important when it comes to art, as well as landscapes. Before I really get into it, it’s worth addressing the word itself, that is to say ask the question: what is mimesis? […]