Foucault and the Non-Fascist way of life.
I would like to respond to Matthias post “The irrelevant” in a comprehensive way. Unfortunately my knowledge of Foucault’s thought is cursory and, for the most part, comes by way of summaries and...
View ArticleDeath in the Mediterranean; Once by Drowning, twice by Philosophy.
In a post on the Non — “Kinderstunde in der FAZ, oder: Warum wir die N-Wörter lieber ersaufen lassen.” — Matthias Steingass has established an unambiguously radical perspective. The post is about an...
View ArticleFood for Thought.
Matthew O’Connell’s post “Critical Thinking” is a good introduction to the practice of critical thinking from a rationalist perspective. Not to be confused, though, with the Critical thinking tradition...
View ArticleNon-Politics
1. How, in an era of globalization, market volatility, and crisis can differing theoretical positions and different models of organization and programs of action function as one effective transnational...
View ArticleWhy we need Auto-commentary as a Lived Practice.
I would rather take the measure of the usefulness of any thought by placing it against the horizon of my life in its lived singularity. In order to do this one must find a way of connecting theoretical...
View ArticleBuddhism/Non-Buddhism/Non-Philosophy
What is non-Buddhism? Simply put it is a work on Buddhism. It tries to retrieve from Buddhism certain postulates and practices with liberatory potential for the individual and the collective. In doing...
View ArticleNon
Part of our frustration with recent discussion was that, as usual, participants studiously ignored the essential point which Non-Buddhism, following Non-philosophy, tries to make—an essential without...
View ArticleOntology as diachronic process: Non-Philosophy as superposition.
Over on “Agent Swarm” Terence Blake has posted a series of short texts on Badiou, Non-philosophy, and the analytical/continental divide that I highly recommend. There is enough here to keep me going...
View ArticleSilence/Immanence/The World
Sometimes the bottom falls out of our world and we must question life by the force of passion alone. Not everyone articulates this experience on the level of reasoned argument, but everyone grapples...
View ArticleMindfulness/Non-Buddhism/Non-philosophy
Over on SNB Per Drougge has an interesting post exploring the way mainstream media and the blogsphere are re-accessing mindfulness, its benefits and its workplace and political implications. This is a...
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