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Curt Jaimungal and Desh Amila’s film takes a long, uncompromising look at the social justice movement, highlighting its faulty logic and tracking its philosophical origins. Given that the film covers so much ground, the fact that it comes in at only around 90 minutes is impressive—and what is more it is enjoyable.
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"If before encountering otherness we already know what its relation to us will be, we have obliterated it in advance…. Kant still wants to say something about radical alterity, even if it is only that it has no relevance to us, yet he has deprived himself of the right to all speculation about the nature of what is beyond appearance…. [This]... deli...
Zachary Stein: The controversial philosopher, Nick Land, is often associated with the new schools of post-Kantian metaphysics known as speculative realism and object-oriented ontology. His political philosophy of “Accelerationism” and his writings on the “Dark Enlightenment” have been widely influential and tied into the resurgence of anti-postmode...
1. Joshua Citarella: "I didn’t know much about philosopher Nick Land before I went down thismulti-year rabbit hole. I knew he was associated with Accelerationismand that he had a pretty pessimistic outlook on technology. He was one ofthose cyber-punk guys. It wasn’t really my thing. Land was a professor at Warwick University in London and co-founde...
Affect, coming out of Spinoza, is defined very basically as the ability to affect and be affected. But you have to think of the affect and being affected together as a complex, as two sides of the same phenomenon that cuts across subject positions. (2017: 109)"
9More Information. 9.1See Also. Definition. "A gift economy is a social theory in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future quid pro quo. Typically, a gift economy occurs in a culture that emphasizes social or intangible rewards for solidarity and generosity: honor, loyalty or other forms of ...
Cyberculture, the last truly utopian vision of the future, has ended in a clash, and left behind an ever-growing system of virtual life and actual death, of virtual knowledge and actual war. Our future, Berardi argues, has come and gone; the concept has lost its usefulness. Now it's our responsibility to decide what comes next.
Dunbar has developed an equation, which works for most primates, in which he plugs in what he calls the neocortex ratio of a particular species - the size of the neocortex relative to the size of the brain - and the equation gives us the maximum expected group size for each species. For humans, the max group size is 147.8, or about 150.
José Maria Ramos is an activist of Mexican-American origin, based in Melbourne, Australia, author of a PhD on the nine schools of thought in the Alterglobalization Movement; is preparing a global documentary on commoners. Bio.
