/lit/ - Literature

>>3127133
squinting, eyes red, goofy expression of misplaced jocundity

>>3126550
this isn't poetry, this is rap music. The difference is that in rap no one cares about the meaning of the words, the rhythm and sounds are far more important. In poetry, the words actually matter, their rhythm and sound are only valued in how they accentuate the content.

>>3127002

that weird mix of pride and embarrassment when I am normally far less harsh in my criticism of Foucault... I guess I am very passionate about theory and sometimes I build up a lot of anger, especially when I see that smug grin of Foucault's.

>>3125129
lol, because the different regions don't all have languages... right.

>>3124832
>>all philosophical problems are just the result of language

Much in the same fashion that all automechanical problems are 'just' the result of cars...

>>3124629
I don't like prioritizing essence and foundation. Just read something on the margins, someone straddling the fence between village and wilderness. Read someone who has been vilified not only in his own time but also throughout history.

>>3124468
>http://au.askmen.com/fashion/fashiontip_400/430_how-to-wear-a-double-breasted-suit.html

I hate the prescriptivist tone of that statement. I just like double breasted suits, although only one of my 5 or 6 suits is actually double breasted.

>>3124464
Thanks. Currently I'm trying to re-activate my knowledge of PDP, it's been a while since I was actively engaged in that stuff. However, I get the feeling that the interesting parallels are definitely there... in post-structuralism (and more generally 'continental' political philosophy) there is such a strong presence of linguistic conceptions, it is just amazing what kind of drastic changes of perspective you get from considering PDP instead of physical symbol systems: Syntax and Semantics? No, we just have activation... (in low-level cognitive processes, not in language as such: It is important not to confuse the mind and the text, like Derrida does when he uses the example of the dictionary).

>>3123775
>six-button double-breasted suit

aw yeah.

>>3122641
>difficult if not impossible in social science

Well... I never said that I'm doing social science. Actually, I will try to write a short, experimental paper based on my ideas here. If it gets published, I'll post a link, if it doesn't, I might just post it on /lit/.

>>3122536
I will check that out, for interesting Cyberpunk in the orient, I recommend Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days (short story collection) or River of Gods (longish novel), haven't finished Dervish House yet.

>>3123402
I second 'Islands in the Net' and I raise you one 'also read Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone while you read the Sterling'.

>>3122528
Although I'm not sure what kind of receiver you are using that gives you bright blue for a dead channel, I really like how your contrast also highlights the different between Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk (or arguably not post-cyberpunk, but the kind of 'Cyberpunk-set-in-the-present-self-identifying-as-SF' such as Cory Doctorow's stuff that I hesitantly dub post-SF).

>>3124203
>> burghers [...] tribal chiefs

Is this really a thing? Has this constellation existed at some time and place?

>>3124172
>Badiou is so divorced from praxis that she's forgiven him and lets him visit the kids.

Haha, this one is golden!

There are several standard ways of belittleing any philosophy that is newer than 1848:

a) All of that was played through in Greek Philosophy (if it is really 'out there', say Pre-Socratics or Sophists)

b) All of that was already covered in the Bible (: Marxist ideas of a class-less society are just millenarianism, homo homini lupus is just original sin, etc. pp.)

c) All of this was already discussed in its entire breadth in some three or four Berlin bars, between 1839 and 1845.

>>3124252
That's true, for example in Germany the vast majority simply quote the word of Adorno as their primary prophet now.

>>3122855
The novels aren't decent analyses of anything really, I ma thinly wrote about them because they are intersting in a symptomatic way, exhibiting many horrible things about 'geek culture'.

>ctrl + f: Stirner
> hrrrng

Enjoy your idealism, spookfags.

I, I... I wrote my M.A. thesis on Doctorow's novels... Little Brother, For the Win, and Makers... and no, I don't 'like' them.

>>3121838

Thanks for the feedback. I need to go now, but I am going to say that rational (so free of a super-ego more or less) self-interest is also the theoretical basis of communism in 'class interest' (for what is a class but a group of individual people, with actual interests - only individual interests have 'cogintive materiality' on the level of interests, others only on a level of representation), making Stirnerian egoism a possible basis for something like Kropotkin's ideas of society as well (Stirner has a 'mute naturalism' I find particularly appealing because it circumvents the level of linguistic description which inevitably becomes prescriptive).

Also, I think many post-structuralists efface the individual because of their fetishistic textualism, this is where Stirner becomes important, he leaves language as a determining structure and exercises self-relation on an existential level, hence my way of writing him: 'M-X S-T-R-N-R'

>>3121815

>> cont., 'Cognitive Materialism 101'

Gestalt Therapy I know almost nothing about, but I would use the basic framework as a basis for developing a praxis of Eigenheit. Although Stirner identifies important ways in which ideological structures maintain their power over us (his rationalistic critique is combined with a distinct emphasis on the importance of the body and the role of libidinal repression which is quite interesting in how early this occurs with Stirner in relation to Freud et al. - basically like everything significant about Stirner is pretty early), he does not really have the tools or knowledge to adequately deal with the psychological difficulty of removing the ideological super-ego from oneself (even la Mettrie was more aware of this problem, but then again he was a doctor).

>>3121805

Have you never heard of anyone else who criticizes usury? Maybe I'm a Proudhonist? Maybe I'm a Muslim? Maybe I'm an Ostrich-Pope?

>Vlad the Implyier 11/06/12(Tue)04:54 No.3121803

>>cont., original philosophy, do not steal

tldr: the idea that the mind operates on the levels we cannot directly observe (lower levels) according to the mechanism of the structures we have abstracted from our consicous thought - at its most rational moments - is an ideological self-delusion. Bottom-up is way more plausible in both onto- and phylogenetic explanations than a top-down explanation (which is what symbol manipulation comes down to). 'Meaning' does not exist as such, what we call meaning only exists in every single instanc of activation throughout a network of nodes. The different connections in the network are part of various 'pieces of information', they are distributed in a fuzzy manner across the network of connections, and the only 'meaning' that occurs is a very temporal instance of intensity (note the possible parallels with Deleuze and Guattari here, in terms of intellectual genealogy one could support the Deleuze-PDP connection through a joint enmity of Chomsky and a joint influence of William James).