Meta-Philosophy The sun was not yet coming up over Santa Monica Boulevard, but it had already been a long night of chai and I was looking for my car, which I had left on the street. A newish Mercedes screeched to a stop just in front of me, and fearing the worstâLindsay LohanâI stumbled back in the direction of my chai house. Two odd looking men got out, and none too subtly gestured that I should get in the back seat. I say odd looking because, though they appeared to be clean and their hair and beards were neatly trimmed, they were both wearing togas. They were nowhere near young enough, and we were nowhere close enough to UCLA, for that to make sense. "We just want to ask you some questions," said one, who was slightly balder than the other. "It won't take long," said the other, in the same accent, "and we'll bring you back here. We hummed along through the empty streets, in the direction of the Santa Monica Mountains. "So, how is life among the philosophers?" "I don't know," I said.
The Communism of Thought The Communism of Thought by Michael Munro Dead Letter Office (for BABEL Working Group) Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, 2014. 90 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0615986968. Published: 2014-04-01 Close it punctum books relies on your support Before you start to download your new book, take this moment to think about making a donation to punctum books, a non-profit independent press. Donate now* (opens in new tab) Download "A Communism of Thought" book now (opens in new tab) *All donations are voluntary and not required to download this book. The Communism of Thought takes as its point of departure a passage in a letter from Dionys Mascolo to Gilles Deleuze: “I have called this communism of thought in the past. What, in light of that imperative, is a correspondence? And what is the proximity, here, between correspondence and commentary? “What strikes me especially,” an interviewer once noted to Deleuze, “is the friendship you have for the authors you write about.”
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog This is an excerpt from my Paolo Bozzi Prize address, "Realism and Moralism in Political Thought," last week in Turin at the conference on "Post-Truth, New Realism, and Democracy"; I'll put the whole paper on-line before long, but perhaps this bit will be of interest to some readers: Most of what we think we know about the world is due to reliance on epistemic authorities, individuals or institutions that tell us what we ought to believe about Newtonian mechanics, evolution by natural selection, climate change, resurrection from the dead, or the Holocaust. The most practically fruitful epistemic norm of modernity, empiricism, demands that knowledge be grounded in sensory experience, but almost no one who believes in evolution by natural selection or the reality of the Holocaust has any sensory evidence in support of those beliefs. The Internet is, as we all know, the great eliminator of intermediaries.
Architecture in the Anthropocene Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth’s land, oceans, biosphere and climate have demonstrated that, from a wide variety of perspectives, it is very likely that humans have initiated a new geological epoch, their own. First labeled the Anthropocene by the chemist Paul Crutzen, the consideration of the merits of the Anthropocene thesis by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences has also garnered the attention of philosophers, historians, and legal scholars, as well as an increasing number of researchers from a range of scientific backgrounds. Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy intensifies the potential of this multidisciplinary discourse by bringing together essays, conversations, and design proposals that respond to the “geological imperative” for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice. Editor Bio
What Is Buddhism? | TheBuddhism.Net : Worldwide Buddhist Information and Education Network Some people say Buddhism is a religion; some say it is a philosophy. But it is none; but the realization of the truth. You will understand this when you go through the definitions of the words ‘religion’ and ‘philosophy’. Religion means 1. 2. Philosophy means 1. 2. But our great Buddha and his teachings don’t belong to either category since he is a Human Being who developed his mind to the ultimate and realized the absolute truth of life and found the ultimate solution to all problems and suffering. He is not a God or a Saint, but a Super Human. We should show our devotion and trust in our Great Buddha, his teachings (Dhamma) & his disciples (Sangha) with a true knowledge and pray, which would result in us getting merit endowed with wisdom. Do remember this, Buddha is above any God. What did Buddha say about the beginning and the ending of this world? The Universe and everything that’s in it is controlled by independent, ageless rules. Do Buddhists believe in Gods?
Neoliberalism and the commercialization of higher education Cuts in spending and the replacement of academic staff by technology are not the only pressures faced by British academia. Increasingly, education is fashioning students into a productive labor force rather than teaching them more traditional academic ideals. Last year’s plans to raise tuition fees in Britain to a maximum of £9000, $13,731 at today’s exchange rate, were coterminous with cuts of £2 billion in funding for education. Universities’ lack of funding caused them to compensate for lost income by hiking up tuition fees. The neoliberal turn to privatization and the commercialization of education is an area of concern for British universities. Such effects are evident in the recently “enhanced” course guides at the London School of Economics (LSE). What is neoliberalism? In the 1970s, responding to a period of stagflation (inflation with rising unemployment), former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former U.S. Neoliberalism and higher education
Henry A. Giroux | Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)Truthout depends on you to continue producing grassroots journalism and disseminating conscientious visions for a brighter future. Contribute now by clicking here! "The University is a critical institution or it is nothing." - Stuart Hall I want to begin with the words of the late African-American poet, Audre Lourde, who was in her time a formidable writer, educator, feminist, gay rights activist and public intellectual who displayed a relentless courage in addressing the injustices she witnessed all around her. Poetry is not a luxury. To read more articles by Henry A. Across the globe, the forces of casino capitalism are on the march. The mantras of neoliberalism are now well known: Government is the problem; Society is a fiction; Sovereignty is market-driven; Deregulation and commodification are vehicles for freedom; and Higher education should serve corporate interests rather than the public good. Under such circumstances, to cite C.
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