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>>17727225
>existential nihilism
Teenager-tier. The true beast is epistemological nihilism.

>>15263603
No, if you're old enough to post here, it is not easy to think Nietzsche says "fuck logic and tradition".
At this point, I only care about truth insofar as it gets me what I want. Same goes for reason. Many people (mistakenly) hold truth and reason as ideals though.

>>13169410
>haven't read much Derrida but I can read it I guess. just on the first paragraph, does Derrida assign moral status to presence or is it merely a metaphysical entity?

Great question. Ask it tomorrow. Look for this pic with the title PHARMAKON.

Since I have the day off I’m gonna reread Phaedrus before finishing this essay, give me a bit ground. I suggest keeping a dictionary handy. See u tomorrow

>>13157559

>No logic governs the meaning of interpretation, because logic is an interpretation

>>11665989
>interesting mix, lots to work with there, id be interested in how you navigate out of the idealist closure - whether of the subject or of being in kant and hegel, respectively - and the tao with schelling's agonic cosmogony
I don’t know. Might think and make a thread about this, lookout for pic related. Don’t have much ready made stuff, I’m metal on the Wu Xing, need time to make weapons not like you blessed Water types. But vaguely axiomatic “all is mind” stuff, tearing the Kantian “I” back to its arborescent origins, non-correlative critique, principle of factiality (meaning comes from us hence nothing beyond can exist). Not sure actually I’ll get back to it

>slowly bootstrapping myself out of the mud. no clear-set goal in mind, except maybe thought control, i just want to keep adding to that fullness of self these ideas and staying on my shit gives me, maybe one day ill hear the music of the spheres but i aint banking on it
Hope you’re doing better with that man. Yea I hear you. This stuff is actually what made me and then sedated my schizophrenia. Black thread of fate kinda deal. What kinda stuff are you on?

>27. maybe teach this stuff, learn ancient greek, translate, maybe ill just save up and fuck off to a hermitage somewhere. i have 0 bug career ambitions, much less an academic one. like you said, "amassing until I explode into the rhizome plane" - ill let nature take its course.

Teaching sounds good though it needn’t be a profession. Did translation for a while and it’s very palatable work. Same here, gonna melt into the silence once I’ve saved enough money. But that’s later. I’m going into academia this autumn, worked for two years so I could pay for it (parents agreed to fund the other half) so this is a kind of four year holiday I suppose. Liking the idea of psychoanalysis.

>how about yourself? what motivates you to do what you do? what are your cardinal insights?
What I do motivates me, fire stoked by fire. Maybe stupid but true. What you said about fullness of ideas pretty much explains it. Visualise expanding my nerves out into the universe and into myself, reaching out to God.
Cardinal insights are just the axioms I stick to religiously, the golden light that fills the spaces usually occupied by unconscious. All is mind, reality is a pattern of thought and action, objectivity is a concept, consciousness preceded all, yin yang unto God etc basically stuff reducing everything to human meaning, an absolute intensification in locus of control. It’s just a personal thing not necessarily my philosophical beliefs.
What kinda work are you doing at the moment? Do you have any fundamental axioms that premise your consciousness? Any religious beliefs?

>No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language, with this 'relation,' precisely, which is yours.

>>9652941
Yep. It surely does. At which point there is the potential to spawn all kinds of toxic memes that try to fill in that place he probably would have said should be left empty and absent, because those memes are just mirror images of the same things he was criticizing in the first place.

I could be wrong, of course. I'll admit I'm not a huge fan of Derrida but I think it's nonsense to shit on him. To my mind there are more interesting guys to read today, but once we start talking about AI embodiment and so on his time will come again, I believe. In the meantime it's a question of how to deal with nihilism.

He wasn't such a bad dude and the idea that he was somehow out to destroy the Western Canon is also misguided. People often forget this.

>The theme that perhaps will most surprise at least some readers is that Derrida vigorously asserts the importance of the "canon," the "tradition," and rigorous academic discipline. He concludes that many critics have seriously misrepresented his ideas. Pointing to his own rigorous academic training, Derrida maintains that even as he seeks to deconstruct pedagogies and ways of thinking, he is "at some level true" to the "classical" training he received in the French educational system. He stresses that deconstruction "doesn't mean simply destroying the norms or pushing these norms to utter chaos." In fact, if what passes as deconstruction produces "neglect of the classical authors, the canonical texts, and so on, we should fight it."

http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol10.1/olson-derrida.pdf