“what matters are not discussions but encounters.” but this can only mean that in a murky sphere of togetherness the moment of friction between competing thoughts, the notion that the various forms of reason work away at one another, is cut off.
i used to be off-put of trying to articulate an understanding beyond my ability but i came to recognize it was a contributor to my debility yknow? so i gotta do it to both push my boundaries and concretize my existing understanding, and sometimes that means punching above my weight class
the ignorant double down would be embarrassing if i were to stand by the things i say but i'm pretty evidently just tangling myself up to expose what i don't understand to myself
ig something that will illustrate my current discomfort is like the strategies that will refuse dichotimization rather than understand the nature of the existing dichotomy that imposes itself, and idealistically (in both senses of the word) pretends like the historical position can be overcome with
on the other hand you really can speak intelligibly about the shifting loci of sites of power contestations in light of ascendant nationalisms and the increasing precarity and occasional collapse of international compromise, ig im just trying to say that while thats all well and good it feels too
disciplinary society seems more and more an anachronism, or at least a misorientation of attention. abstract social domination and the coercion of real abstractions are far more operative
derrida has this this quote that goes "nothing seems to me less outdated than the classical emancipatory ideal. we cannot attempt to disqualify it today, whether crudely or with sophistication, at least not without treating it too lightly and forming the worst complicities." and he's wrong
My dear, faithful Wondrous Hippo Cow, here a few words of welcome - may you continue to live with the same contentment, the same security, and the same stubborn superiority as the hippo cow overleaf.
this is a central point at issue in historicizing philosophy, it's about how you situate your own thought within the world as you find it and as it finds you
a lot of interesting things come out of affirming what is, and all the different ways to get there carry distinct evaluative criteria: slavish inversion, eternal recurrence, self-actualization of the world spirit
intersectionality has broken everybody's brains, you have to realize its not radical to be completely incapable of thinking of in depth about an individual concept without immediately escaping to all of its manifestations and interlinkages. congrats you figured out isolated immediacy is insufficient