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>> No.3139258 [View]

Lenin didn't start the Russian Revolution.

>> No.3139240 [View]

Analytical and Continental philosophy are two entirely different and distinct kinds of dumb and irrelevant.

>> No.3136746 [View]

>>3136548
Which post did you want to quote?

>>3136278
I liked the parts about mythology, I just don't think it goes well with the cartoony/self-ironic 80s action movie parody. I really dislike it when people interested in technology have overly powerful awesome cool hacker protagonists, it's almost like Snow Crash contains the poison seed that would grow into the cultural phenomenon that includes things like Cory Doctorow's Little Brother and Makers.

>> No.3136153 [View]

>>3135855
The worst part about Snow Crash is that some parts are so obviously Stephenson showing off what he has read about mythology that it is really hard to chalk off the really dumb parts concerning cognition, computation, hackers, and visual information, as ironic/camp. It's just a weird mixture for me. Most of the plot and the action are so comically overblown, I feel that anything 'well researched' just creates a jarring effect here. There is something I feel is the unsavoury, immature kind of nerdy about simultaneously slathering rule of cool all over your novel and still going off on long asides about this cool thing X you have read so much about.

>> No.3136144 [View]

>>3136120
Didn't Godwin believe that humans should have as little contact as possible because that enables them to be as rational as possible?

>> No.3136114 [View]

>>3136105
>the western tenancy

Sound's like Rowling's next novel.

>> No.3135662 [View]

>>3135586
So... is that the same game? One visual novel (is that the correct term?) that references Clockwork Orange and Neuromancer? That sounds awesome!

>> No.3135565 [View]

>>3135506
Okay... when I started playing counterstrike, I had just read neuromancer, so my internet name became Flatline (it still is in some places).

>> No.3135497 [View]

>>3133018
>several digital avatars

Well, I'm not sure whether they would be called digital in the Sprawl series, it's been a while since I read it. Basically, this is also a question of how 80s the thing you are translating is in other respects. To me, 'digital' sounds a little more post-90s than for example 'virtual', but that might be an idiomatic misconception. Just translate the whole thing and post whatever questions you have here, basically I would 'sign off' on all the greentext you have posted so far.

Arcologies are huge buildings that single corporations set up for their employees to work and live in, so it is one huge building complex with housing, work, sports, schools, shops, restaurants, and cinemas, under one roof, for one corporation (potentially they could share one, but that is not the standard case). Neuro-jack is a socket on your skull, into which you plug a cable connecting your brain to the Interwebs (Cyberspace). ICE are intrusion countermeasure electronics or something like that, black ice is the stuff that is lethal. SimStim is simulated stimulus, a form of virtual reality that is more like 100% immersive television, including also smell, taste, tactile sensations and for all I know probably proprioception. The rest has been explained already.

>> No.3135485 [View]

>>3133018
>Simulacrum/Simulacra

Should be roughly the same as in Baudrillard. There's probably a wiki article on it.

>> No.3133581 [View]

I like the book, too.

>> No.3132605 [View]

>>3132599
The movie about smurfs in space who are really native americans. Aquablue is a comic like that, only good and from the 80s.

>> No.3132598 [View]

http://duckavenger.blogspot.de/
start in the beginning.

Also, Aquablue is hilariously 80s and basically like Avatar only good and a comic.

>> No.3132594 [View]

Though controversial, Stirner is often cited as one of the first proponents of anarchist thought. He was rejected by many anarchists, such as Kropotkin, but this is probably due to a mixture of misreading, Stirner's association with Nietzsche during the 1890s and his criticism of socialism, which however is aimed at Weitling and Moses Hess, whom some would call 'utopian socialists'.

>> No.3132547 [View]

>>3132002
>punctuated equilibrium

care to explain?

>> No.3132534 [View]

PhD student
officially English but really political philosophy
er... I started my B.A. in 2006 if that answers it
Get PhD, don't end up living on the street
Freiburg, but I mostly work there, my studies are independent.

>> No.3130300 [View]

>>3130299
look it up

>> No.3130292 [View]

Of course they are biased. There is no way of gathering information about it without getting seriously enraged.

>> No.3130290 [View]

>>3. All experiences (including agency) are physical mental states.

In what meaningful way are qualia physical?

>> No.3130287 [View]

>>3128993
His arguments are very shallow and weak.

>> No.3130282 [View]

>>3128993
Why does he say 'scientifically and philosophically' when talking about free will, as if the two are somehow functionally equivalent?

>> No.3130272 [View]

>>3128933
7/10, jimmies are rustled.

>> No.3130265 [View]

>>3130262
>>This is to ensure that the petulant college children can have the illusion of freedom necessary to be "armchair Marxists". In other words armchair Marxism is a bourgeois affectation, no less acculturated than any other "opinion".

I fixed that for you.

>> No.3130246 [View]

>>3130237
Nope. The fact alone that a professor for analytical philosophy holds the same view as someone on 4chan does not suggest that there is a need for this opinion to be articulated in a highly technical and professional discipline, rather the opposite.

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