Thursday, June 29, 2017

Phenomenology and onto-empathy

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Interesting NDPR review of a new book, Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the 'We' edited by Thomas Szanto and Dermot Moran, HE...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

quote of the day

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"Objectivity of thought, in Kant's sense, is again in a certain sense only subjective.  Thoughts, according to Kant, althoug...
Monday, June 26, 2017

new essay by Nick Land on accelerationism

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Two new essays by Nick Land in the newly launched Jacobite online magazine, "a magazine of philosophy, cultural analysis, exit, and ...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

"Mother Nature might be lovely, but moral she is not. She doesn’t love us or want what’s best for us" *Aeon essay)

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THIS article takes me back to one of my first sketches of the naturalism behind bleak theology (see my posts "Misanthropology and Blea...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Europe Travel Blog: Salzburg and Hallstaat, Austria + Heidelberg and Triberg, Germany

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"Der Philosophenweg" (Philosopher's Path), Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg Schlosshof (Heidelberg Castle), Photo from Ph...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Prometheanism and the brothers Jünger (excerpt from The Titans)

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The brother of Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), Friedrich Georg Jünger (1898-1977), is known for his Prometheanist text The Titans (1943), secon...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

What happens when the twin worlds of biotechnology and artificial intelligence merge, allowing us to re-design our species to meet our whims and desires?

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NBC tech news article "Godlike 'Homo Deus' Could Replace Humans as Tech Evolves," HERE . One may also wish to check o...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Land on Kant and Hegel, Husserl, phenomenology, and Schelling (quote of the day)

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While reading Land's The Thirst for Annihilation the below stood out as particularly interesting. I decided to type out some excer...

Félix Ravaisson, Selected Essays (NDPR review)

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This book looks incredibly interesting: link HERE .

Irony and Idealism: Rereading Schlegel, Hegel, and Kierkegaard (NDPR review)

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G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) Putting below excerpts which characterize the review overall hopefully saving the reader time in looking at th...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Outside Thought: Meillassoux, Uexküll, Peirce

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A very interesting thesis is, to what extent might rationality - and all that is included along with conceptual navigation and the implem...