"I take gods and spirits to be existentially coeval with the human, and think from the assumption that the question of being human involves the question of being with gods and spirits" (Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2000:16).
phenomenology: April 2005 Archives
Just read this word in the introduction to Dipesh Chakrabarty's Provincializing Europe. In the particular context it reads negatively, as though "necessary" and "incipient" are inherently contradictory (p. 15).
Thoughtful questioning is more important than construction of systems (Moran summarizing Heidegger 246)… can thoughtful questioning itself be structuring in a systemic way? Seeds are sown – production, address, negation, accessibility – a trajectory will unfold, its velocity overdetermined by dissent, assertion, resistance, negotiation. A group forms within the limits of language, guided by what ideology/ies? A Marxist view juxtaposes persons with historical movement; Marcuse claims Heidegger accounts for the bourgeois deconstruction of social life from within (Moran, 245). Are we transcendentally homeless?
“We are caught up in a structure of care…it is not a matter of indifference to us” (Moran, 241).
Oy. I just bailed on the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness conference. None of the presenters were bad, it's just that they conform to the structure of making academic presentations ABOUT the object of study, rather than doing/being the subjects of study. Highlight? Meeting VJ. :-)
I'll go to the liminal lecture by Carlos Tanner tonight - hopefully it will be better.
I went to the plenary at the World Systems Conference this morning, and it was dynamic as all get out! Saskia Sassen turned me on. :-) Immanual Wallerstein set an important tone for the conference with his keynote last night, but he's not the most dynamic speaker. He might be in Spanish, but his pacing in English was a bit tough.
Of course, I'm envisioning the COM dept's proposed/potential conference for next year...
Is solipsism an attempt at control - to order the universe, refute or seek to deny the effects of stochasticism?
For instance, I know someone who occasionally describes themself as "insular", which may be true. It's one thing, though, to hold one's own counsel, and another to create a worldview and interpretation of events and others that excludes other viewpoints. I think this is what solipsism really means? This piece, Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds. I have to grapple with how this relates to and interacts with intersubjectivity. Or plural singularity, as we discussed in Briankle's class last night based on Jean-Luc Nancy's piece, "Banks, Edges, Limits (of singularity)".
This is the analytic philosopher Bern was talking about who argues against materialism.
He even has his own weblog - lots of stuff relating to perception. Hunju!
I've been trying to track info on Carlo Suares, but can't find any details about his background, training, etc. I am finding other interesting things!
Some physics from way beyond.
Info on Sufism.
It's all because of western science. Really! "Mathematics, vision, philosophy. And the next thing you know we have capitalism!"
Maybe you had to be there, but it was the heartiest laugh in Enoch's class tonight, that and going down the Juan path.
We did the Hebrew letter-numbers, the archetypes of 1-9.
