/lit/ - Literature

>>22390028
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>>13661315
>>13659174

Fine. Here's a summary.

> Philosophy has a problem: we have too many presumptions about how shit works.
> We fucked things up by compounding presumptions on top of presumptions that are now really hard to examine on their own.
> This also feeds into how we want things and how we've been taught to see the world (by our parents, friends, society, economy, history, psychology, and so on).
> So, to cut through the bullshit, I retooled some of Spinoza's work and said, "Okay, let's believe that 'ideas' exist on a plane of existence where we don't think of these 'ideas' as transcendent or divine, but they ACTUALLY EXIST in the world."
> How would we out find how these 'ideas' exist?
> Well, it's fucking hard.
> I started by looking at what it means for things to differ and why we see so many repeats of the same shit and how this conflicts with the idea of how "pure" things can be.
> I found that shit is always *becoming* something because we put our own baggage into the history and meaning of things, and maybe we should try our best not to make the idea of things an 'is' or to seek 'transcendence' all the time, but instead try to synthesize meanings in the real world that are useful in a context.
> So yeah, suck it, Kant (j/k I love you babe except no but maybe I dunno it's weird between us).
> I also tried to imagine all concepts as connected to all other concepts in units called "rhizomes." Less like a hierarchy, more like a map that you can always make more connections to, or a plant that splays everywhere but with purpose.
> Finally, I wanted to apply these concepts to man in modernity, and one thought I got was that man is kind of like a schizophrenic: we constantly want shit and can't satisfy the want but don't know why thanks to the baggage. This leads to cognitive dissonance and fucked up desires, compounded by the modern state.
> Also I fell out a window.
> OR DID I?

tl;dr:
> Philosophy, and how we use it, isn't about stating what things are (because what something "is" gets redefined a lot). Instead, it's about how we find the connections between these things and engineer them to be closer to what we hope is clearer and more useful.

>>13228558
shit take

>>12660798

>>12272309
He was the prince of philosophers

>>11816084
capitalism has always existed virtually

>schizophrenic root vegetables are the highest mode of becoming

>become a schizophrenic root vegetable

how did he inspire Land?

>>11662649
itchy trigger finger, my bad

>>11447755
you did good son, now clip my nails

>>11231166
>would you trim them for me anon? please be gentle, I'm tender

>sits down
>pulls out nailclippers and sets them on the table
>holds out his hands gingerly
>"gently, anon, I'm tender"
what would you do?

Nails

can somebody please explain deleuze's metaphysics, outlined in difference et repetition, to me