tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post7120148520972368276..comments2023-03-22T19:14:05.988-04:00Comments on notes for the coming community: No Ideas but in ThingsDavid Kishikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09287802372745246084noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-83292378494776585502011-03-13T03:13:13.337-04:002011-03-13T03:13:13.337-04:00Hi,
The question, to me, is rather 'why' ...Hi,<br /><br />The question, to me, is rather 'why' something seems to be the way it is--why does the superstructure-substructure form seem to hold, why does the ego persist, why certain illusions (Kant) and particular ideologies exist and not others, why only 3 (or 4) dimensions (Einstein), why This world Here (Leibniz), why this meaning for this word and not some other (Wittgenstein), etc...something that 'infrastructural' (complexity/emergence) generic and formal theories are not (yet?) able to explain. We already get 'that' substance is, but we don't have a general understanding of 'how' we get from that to what it is (Subject), specifically, actually: OK, so you have this perfect 'direct correspondence'/parallax expression between the political and the economic, etc, but how do you explain that, *nevertheless*, 'causation' and 'mediation' *appear* to be the case, appear to exist? (To extend this question with Benjamin along the same line, what does this divine violence of 'shifting the infrastructure' actually entail, look like?) I don't think we can so quickly dispense with dialectics and metaphysics, for this reason...what do you think? Do you think this is even a philosophical question, one that can be sufficiently answered by/in philosophy? Science?Mutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02963286886290421437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-40450763057375061632011-01-30T06:11:13.271-05:002011-01-30T06:11:13.271-05:00Who are the men next to Benjamin and where is the ...Who are the men next to Benjamin and where is the photo from?Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-16939230956159097682011-01-15T07:25:58.597-05:002011-01-15T07:25:58.597-05:00Hi David!
I liked your reading of Benjamin. Remin...Hi David!<br /><br />I liked your reading of Benjamin. Reminded me of my disatisfaction with Andrew Merrifields frustratng insistence on the importance of the Marxist dialectic to the thinkers encountered in his otherwise excellent book Metromarxism.<br /><br />Keen to read more.Urban Orienteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09648014205214341657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454365152806528236.post-38140439738769127262011-01-15T02:12:01.004-05:002011-01-15T02:12:01.004-05:00Well done. Beautiful post.Well done. Beautiful post.Joseph Charles https://www.blogger.com/profile/02849704279926794392noreply@blogger.com