Experience

This group is rather niftily names AAAARG! A short post on theory/practice is kind of interesting for us, especially the Zizek talks about the need for theory, precisely because we don’t really know what’s going on. AAAARG seems to capture the zeitgeist, don’t you think?

This has come up the last couple of meetings. So here are some links for those interested. Basic Definitions of Apperception from, weirdly enough, a medical dictionary (I say weirdly because it gives a good, short definition from Kant). This, from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is also pretty good. It tells us that the [...]

(to be clear, I’m not yet proposing these as definite readings … just posting out of interest, because everyone has so much time to read .. ) Lone found what I think is this great article by David Lapoujade on William James, Deleuze (Kant and everyone else) and experience, which you could almost say links [...]

We promised we would blog an entry re our meeting last Friday. We read a section or three of Kojin Karatani’s Transcritique. And we read a wee bit of Marx and Kant’s strange “Dreams of Visionary”. It’s probably true to say that we didn’t get very far but that, somewhat paradoxically, it was all very [...]