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The Enlightenment Underground: August 2007
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Have courage to use your own reason! That is the motto of enlightenment." (Immanuel Kant). Sunday, August 26, 2007. It can’t be an obvious place to start, but I’ll start there anyway: with the convergence occurring at the top of a woman’s legs. It’s already profoundly culpable to speak of woman as an object- but hey, it is also the literal truth of the matter.The literal state of our state. The object of desire is an objectBut this object of desire, this intense object of desire, can’t, as object, produc...
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The Enlightenment Underground: July 2007
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Have courage to use your own reason! That is the motto of enlightenment." (Immanuel Kant). Wednesday, July 25, 2007. Chirruping Bird of Prey. I don’t have any great confidence in pluralism as a political pragmatism, but without it I have no hope, either. It is very easy for me to understand why the Left would squander so much effort and energy on what looks like the lost cause of pluralism: what else is there for the Left to do? Posted by Yusef Asabiyah at 10:01 AM. Tuesday, July 17, 2007. In the first q...
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The Enlightenment Underground: May 2006
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Have courage to use your own reason! That is the motto of enlightenment." (Immanuel Kant). Wednesday, May 31, 2006. How do we conceptualize? Why would we want to do so? How is conceptualization different than, say, innovation? What is distinctive about those mental acts which are designated conceptualization? Is conceptualization a specifically mental act? Does giving conceptualization a new kind of primacy lead those who do so into a new instantiation of psychologism within philosophy? This fantastic ha...
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The Enlightenment Underground: August 2006
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Have courage to use your own reason! That is the motto of enlightenment." (Immanuel Kant). Tuesday, August 29, 2006. Throwing a Rod: Desiring Machines versus Repression, Part I. Sometimes the idea runs through my head that I am living an extremely dangerous life, for I am one of those machines which can explode. Hey maggot ya know something, Maggot? That rhymes with faggot. Hey Pussy. You wearing that pink feather boa and all? I want all of this on film! I want to capture all of it! Hey man. The whol...
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The Enlightenment Underground: February 2007
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Have courage to use your own reason! That is the motto of enlightenment." (Immanuel Kant). Wednesday, February 28, 2007. It was a little bit odd for two people whose tastes in philosophy are such that they find abhorrent anything hinting at, let alone reeking of, valorizations of the Temple of Reason or the sublime or the beauty of Law would wish to begin a blog under a banner of Enlightenment. We’re both Nietzscheans, (or part of the legacy of Nietzsche’s French Legacy) for crissakes! Do we need to give...
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The Enlightenment Underground: May 2007
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Have courage to use your own reason! That is the motto of enlightenment." (Immanuel Kant). Thursday, May 31, 2007. I’m intrigued by the way that what’s called affirmation acts as a way of stifling niggling doubts and worries acts to help one avoid critical thinking in general. I’m trying to understand how affirmation might be possible in conjunction with something else which I will refer to as selection. I am trying to understand the way Nietzsche’s concept of the will-to-power is a means to address the ...
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The Enlightenment Underground: June 2007
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Have courage to use your own reason! That is the motto of enlightenment." (Immanuel Kant). Tuesday, June 26, 2007. The Materiality of a Bird of Prey. That's all I have to say. The materiality of a bird of prey.". What comes from this will be shocking. SHOCKING. For years, I have hoped to offer some kind of corrective to Leftist asceticism, Leftist elitism, Leftist aestheticism, Leftist idealism, Leftist narcissism, Leftist solipsism. but without leaving my own Leftist orientation behind. Therefore, I see...
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The Enlightenment Underground: March 2006
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Have courage to use your own reason! That is the motto of enlightenment." (Immanuel Kant). Tuesday, March 28, 2006. Today, I want to play with "fundamentalism" and "scientism.". An issue. And despite the clarity of Leviticus 18:22, some scholars have suggested that David and Jonathan were more than just friends. Enough said . . . ). In debates over the ethics of abortion, the teaching of evolution, and the looming threat of ecocide, the debate is increasingly polarized between scientism and fundamentalism.
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Impure Reason: A Pragmatics of the Multiple: A Brief Sketch
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Spelunking through culture and society, art and science, religion and politics. Friday, August 8, 2008. A Pragmatics of the Multiple: A Brief Sketch. In a private correspondence, Yusef (of The Enlightenment Underground. Suggested the term "a pragmatics of the multiple" for what I want to do here - a term which I'm happy to accept! The latter, the metaphysics of unity, is the demand to locate the correct way of speaking - the way of speaking that fits. The world, which shows us how the world really. I alw...
