Archive for January, 2008
The first is a fun one: normative thought and racism are fundamentally linked. More generally, we might note that all internal and external totalitarianisms (that is, totalitarianism in thought or in deed), even that fundamental totalitarianism of the ‘Good,’ that good or otherwise Platonic totalitarianism, lead to an essentially anti-humanist pattern of thought. This [ READ MORE ]
Possibly the finest statement of overtly ‘political’ philosophy of the twentieth century is to be found in Bakunin’s God and State. I recently finished a paper on Derrida, Deleuze and onto-theology (by way of some Heidegger and Nietzsche), and at one point I went looking for a quote from the text which I had long [ READ MORE ]
so, on the last day of my holiday freedom-of-thought, i’ve been catching up on a favourite comic book of mine, Bill Willingham’s Fables. and comic books have long been a guilty pleasure of mine: i’m not the kind of dogmatic comic-book booster who is endlessly trying to lift their preferred medium onto a pedestal alongside [ READ MORE ]
as prelude to a future and more in-depth analysis of dogmatic thought in general, I thought I might link to a particularly lovely editorial from the Washington Post which offers the best conceivable summary of the real difference between the thought-processes of ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’ in the United States, with direct reference to the upcoming [ READ MORE ]