Philosophy Matters

13/04/2017

https://vimeo.com/user537812/lacanspeaks

JACQUES LACAN SPEAKS, a rare filmed documentary record of a 1971 university speaking appearance, makes clear, Lacan was also a highly controversial figure, with…

12/03/2017

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
- Bertrand Russell

07/03/2017

07/03/2017

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us — but not suckle us.
-Søren Kierkegaard

07/03/2017

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
~Aesop

07/03/2017

http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/market-debt-and-new-fundamentalisms/

Capitalist economy has always aimed to establish an intimate connection with individual lives, a relationship that used to be based on the exploitation of specific skills in the form of ... Read More

07/03/2017

http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-reads-french-theory-on-the-intellectual-labor-of-dismantling-the-cultural-left/

It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over specialized ... Read More

07/03/2017

http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/la-la-land-a-leninist-reading/

Among the PC reproaches to Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, the one that stands out for its sheer stupidity was that there are no gay couples in the film which ... Read More

07/03/2017

http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/american-history-in-the-age-of-trump/

The French philosopher Simone Weil once wrote a bit cryptically that “[w]ithout history there can be no sense of patriotism. We have only to look at the United States to ... Read More

07/03/2017

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/identity-politics-prose/ #.WL5hptfioBs.facebook

Let’s put one thing up front: using one’s ge****ls or epidermis as a way to gain political legitimacy is corrupt; to think with them is intellectually shallow; to adhere one’s aesthetic to them when making art is absurd. I’m not concerned here with a case for or against any one political movement th...

07/03/2017

07/03/2017

http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/gratuitousness-and-recognition/?utm_content=buffer7b5ab&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

It is possible to narrate the history of debt (and, therefore, of credit) as a history of relation. This does not mean turning a blind eye to all the uses ... Read More