Eric Cabaniss

@awinston youtu.be/X5hrUGFhsXo?si…

Mais noooooonnnnnn honhonhonhon

@EmilyGouldNYmag Zizek had a bit like this but with physical devices

using AI to "be a writer" is like .. playing a porn video game where you make your avatar cum

@daniel_dsj2110 @GregGrandin I don't have access to the piece and was responding to your quotation. I assumed it was recent, not from 2013. My mistake for confusing similar, recurring, topoi

@EricCabaniss @GregGrandin She’s clearly talking about the post-secular trend of the 2000s, hence the title of the piece, as well as her critique of Talal Asad, Saba Mahmood, etc.

Melinda Cooper: "What are we to make of the contemporary alliances between the anti-imperialist Leninist Far Left and the postcolonial Far Right? Is antiliberalism a sufficient cause for communion between the Far Left and the Far Right? Or do such alliances signal a deeper convergence of political passions, reminiscent of the 1930s?": read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/art…

@daniel_dsj2110 @GregGrandin The MAGAComms are perhaps the exemplar par excellence of what Cooper is describing

@daniel_dsj2110 @GregGrandin Isn't it basically a small pack of journalist influencer multipolaristas that emphasize what they characterize as US imperialism in their critiques (a lot like inverting centering the US as the central and only node by which global events can be understood by provincial RWers)?

@daniel_dsj2110 @GregGrandin There's plenty of anti-USian self-identified tankies online that use the term in facetious self-reference, some relying on defensive deflating self-irony to avoid serious conversation about their idea commitments

@MumbleEraLuke @zhenyamoder I can't recall right now anything in his work suggesting he thought the knowledge of the dominant was "greater" than the dominated. Also, his own experiences being gay and knowing of homophobic psychologists would fit into this

@MumbleEraLuke @zhenyamoder Also, sometimes when Foucault comes up I remember Graeber's witticism, a reversal of what he said was Foucault's argument that the socially dominant know more than the dominated. Already too vague and Graeber then pushed the standpoint epistemological reversal.

The first time I heard Foucault mentioned, I was a kid, listening to a pastor decry postmodernism. Now ostensibly leftist teenagers qrt me in all caps to say hedonism is a disease lol

Nominative determinism subscribers should read critiques of Cratylism like Genette's Mimologics

@zhenyamoder @MumbleEraLuke Idk about Derrida, I was under the impression foucault was a reflexive and critical Kantian, inasmuch as he believed there's a mind-independent reality and that people's minds filter their understanding and senses of meaning of reality (revised phenomena and noumena)

@EricCabaniss @MumbleEraLuke At the core is that i generally mean that both derrida and foucault are anti-realists in that they both do not believe there is a mind-independent reality of sorts. That is why i generally meant that the general comparison between deleuze and foucault would be wrong

@zhenyamoder @MumbleEraLuke Congrats Jean, you've put anomie into words, and have formalized metaphors into being taken like Theory, or theoria, a deferred to resource, subject to epistemically lax and relativistic treatment by fad followers in the humanities. Maybe at best he's an auto-phenomenographer

@zhenyamoder @MumbleEraLuke I see Baudrillard as someone who is best understood as similar to an old person desperate and despairing over confused symbolic cultural anomie, but making a living off of putting this into theory-speak. Also Wacquant's remark on him being a flimflam artist is alright.

@zhenyamoder @MumbleEraLuke Deleuze is arguably more subject-centered so sure, like Lacan. He still historicizes albeit having the reputation and admitting to turning other philosophers into his own -- his ideas in their mouths and not clarifying he's reconstructed or melded each's views with the others

@zhenyamoder @MumbleEraLuke Derrida destroys meaning, and his ideas when deployed are very anti-historicist, which you could argue Foucaults are but really his are more structuralist Nietzschean interpretations of static slices of society. Derrida can be more nihilistic because of his Pyrrhonism of language

@MumbleEraLuke or at least that was my impression

@MumbleEraLuke I haven't read Deleuze's slim text on Foucault yet. I think I remember hearing it was laudatory. I also remember Canguilhem's small book on science and ideology which iirc included him pulling back on previous praise for psychology after considering Althusser and Foucault's work