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Глебыч

Кто-нибудь когда-нибудь призовет Александра Глебыча к ответу за то, что он нагло врет? Например “бытовые неудобства” евреев в Египте: это что же, указ об уничтожении всех новорожденных мальчиков...

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Husserl: Imagination

In Ideas 1, for the thousandth time arguing against psychological roots of pure knowledge. What about the “bathing centaur” objection? Well, true, this thing does not exist and is entirely a product of...

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Indifference

Hegellian Gleichgültigkeit is the basic principle for a great relationship with humanity. This is true indifference, just an absolute “0″ with no positive or negative. In such a state it is unclear...

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Гегель, диалектика

Дядя из хорошего университета объясняет в он-лайн лекции людям гегелевскую диаликтику за 10 минут. Вот, говорит, в юности вы хотели стать космонавтом, потом немного подросли и решили стать, там,...

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Латынина. Зачем Ахиллу Брисеида

Латынина. Зачем Ахиллу Брисеида Не вполне согласен в плане рождаются или не рождаются геями (по-моему научно все таки еще ни в ту ни в другую сторону особо не доказано), но главная мысль ясна и...

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Kierkegaard (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer)

These three are oddballs in philosophy and I have a hard time understanding what the big deal is. The first two whine and the last one spouts. Yet for some reason they are incessantly quoted or...

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Printed Guns and Hegel

Looking at some reactions to printed guns – they are all of knee-jerk type at this point. Some people are scared, some are not. Those who are not bring up many reasons: the technology is woefully...

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Глупость, Аристотель…

Даже самые светлые в мире умы Не смогли разогнать окружающей тьмы, Рассказали нам несколько сказочек на ночь, И отправились мудрые спать, как и мы. Прислали мне ссылку , и я там увидел первый же...

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Bulbul

This is pronounced “boolbool” according to Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bulbul. A lookup of the word соловей (nightingale) in the dictionary by a linguist acquaintance yielded this...

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Coolest Visualization Ever

Coolest Visualization Ever John Snow’s investigation of Broad Street cholera outbreak was a stroke of genius. He used this map to clearly show that cholera is spread through contaminated drinking water.

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Гениально

Время наше будет знаменито, Тем что сотворило пользы ради, Новый вариант гермафродита: Плотью мужики, а духом – бляди! (Губерман)

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Emotional Life in a Neurobiological Age: On Wonder

http://www.cornell.edu/video/emotional-life-in-a-neurobiological-age-on-wonder Catherine Malabou discusses the connection between the biological and the symbolic: the brain and the mind.

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La marque du sacré

J’ai l’intime conviction que notre monde va droit à la catastrophe. Le chemin sur lequel s’avance l’humanité est suicidaire Je parle de la catastrophe au singulier, non pour désigner un événement...

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” Žižek proceeds to connect this to a certain Lacanian version of the death drive…: insofar as the denaturalization of nature brought about by the sociocultural overwriting of vital being involves the...

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Ethics, Life, Kant, Sade

Stumbled across this Juvenal quote in the introduction to Zupančič’s Ethics of the Real: Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas. [(you should) Hold it top...

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Way to make the English language really hop.

  Throughout their life, so calm, so peaceful, Sweet old tradition was preserved: For them, in Butterweek the greaseful, Russian pancakes were always served; Two times a year they’d make their fast,...

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Gays, Zionism, Liberals

A reader’s review of Precarious Life by Judith Butler’s on Amazon: I have admired and enjoyed earlier works by Judith Butler, but this one came at, for her and this book, a most unpropitious moment in...

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A la guerre….

A brilliant end of the chapter L’infini in Le siècle of Alain Badiou! Speaking about the war of the century, a war for “the univocation of the Real, against the equivocations of the imaginary”. An idea...

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Goal of Psychoanalysis

Freud often insists that we should not mistake the latent thoughts that the analysis unearths under the manifest content for the unconscious desire itself, in persona-those latent thoughts pertain to...

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Seattle. The Fantasmatic and the Real.

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