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'Pikey' 'Council' 'townie' - derogatory class rhetoric
Is class-ism more prevalent now? What do we think about this?
:: STARTED BY No star here laces
:: 175 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:06 18.07.08
Theoretical Language
The language of theory - is it over-complicated? Meaning, style, tone, etc.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 86 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:47 09.07.08
Stupid theory (or politics) questions
A thread for (self-identified) stupid questions about theoretical or political issues.
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 251 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:34 18.06.08
If something happened, was it necessary for it to happen?
Aristotle argued way back when that whatever happens happens necessarily, ie, was always going to happen. After gesturing at formal modal logic, I make some comments about what this argument shows about what is possible and what is necessary.
:: STARTED BY Good Intentions
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:14 03.06.08
The Sources of Normativity
What is this thing that acts upon our actions?
:: STARTED BY Albert Most
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:08 21.04.08
A wide thread about the idea of 'Ideology' in works of art
Some questions and ideas about art and ideology.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:39 16.04.08
Presumed consent - life after death
have a heart. go on, have mine. i didn't say no...
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:19 11.04.08
SBR: Let's Theorize Consent
What does it mean to consent to sex? It sounds simple, but is it?
:: STARTED BY alas
:: 97 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:45 27.03.08
Zen?
give me Zen, maybe a little Taoism.
:: STARTED BY reFLUX
:: 104 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:49 18.03.08
Defining Atheists and Agnostics
All i can find are vague, confusing views that combine and overlap to create more confusion than when i simply termed myself as agnostic.
:: STARTED BY Opps!!
:: 49 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:53 05.03.08
"Progress!"
The idea of progress, the endless improvement of humankind, the eschaton, moving forward stands against being medieval, backwards, behind the times. Where does this idea of progress come from? Is it good?
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 53 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:03 22.02.08
Bodies of knowledge/tools of thought
I don't know what/how to think!
:: STARTED BY RFR, Airwolf style
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:04 03.02.08
Sadness is happiness as sadnesss
Simple answers please
:: STARTED BY Charlus
:: 57 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:51 24.01.08
The 'Ashley Treatment'
A Seattle couple with a severely brain-damaged child have her put through a series of treatments to retard her growth and ensure she never goes through puberty. They argue it will allow them to treat her better, others are concerned about the ethics of this treatment. Is this going to be Terri Schiavo II?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake
:: 126 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:27 18.01.08
Class / War
What of Marx? How can we use him? Does he apply anymore (did he ever)? What criticisms can be made, what concepts can be salvaged?
:: STARTED BY petunia
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:11 13.01.08
Calendar reform - it's about time
the gregorian calendar is inelegant, clunky, clumsy, awkward and no longer serves us as it may have.
alternatives???
:: STARTED BY squib
:: 52 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:27 04.01.08
The ideology behind today's ideas about Health, and how the media works it.
Supernanny, diet shows, obesity, Jamie Oliver, capitalism, obfuscation.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:58 03.01.08
Reading in Tehran
Azar Nafisi, 'Reading Lolita in Tehran', Hamid Dabashi, Orientalism, Literature, Iran.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:45 26.12.07
Will we eventually live in a world where no-one talks to anyone?
Thoughts about technolgy and escapism.
:: STARTED BY Tumi
:: 27 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:03 14.12.07
Atheisms - Sartre vs Dawkins
Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism vs current manifestations of secular thought - Dawkins, Hitchens, etc.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:02 10.12.07
Queterosexual Rises From the Ashes
Queer Heterosexuality, a discussion
:: STARTED BY Disco is My Class War
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:56 06.12.07
Alain Badiou
Has anyone read this philosopher? Thread for pointers and discussion, along the lines of the Deleuze and Guattari thread.
:: STARTED BY nighthawk
:: 67 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:58 29.11.07
Lacan for self-important nutters
Zizek, Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Lacanian theorist. He's kooky. How does one tackle him?
:: STARTED BY Jackie Susann
:: 54 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:01 28.11.07
Nietzsche, Europe and Islam
For discussing Nietzsche's various concepts of 'Europe' and 'Islam' and how he set them against eachother (all of which highly problematic).
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:29 25.11.07
The Frege-Geach problem in ethics
In metaethics, to be precise. The Frege-Geach problem is a knockout objection against simple expressivism (like Ayer's emotivism) and a pretty big worry to more sophisticated forms. There is a version of this objection levelled at Blackburn's quasi-realism and Gibbard's norm-expressivism that I simply don't understand, and perhaps someone here can make it clear to me.
:: STARTED BY Good Intentions
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:45 24.11.07
Hierarchies
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the caste
:: STARTED BY Tsuga
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:24 22.11.07
Worrying vs Caring vs Engagement
Terminology and ways of thinking about things.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:04 15.11.07
Can you prove any point with linguistics no matter how asinine it is?
Can an intelligent person prove that it's ok to molest children? etc.
:: STARTED BY Rage is back! Attack!
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:20 14.11.07
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A problematic figure. Islam, apocalyptic fantasies about evil "Islamists", Liberals, Conservatives, Feminism, Immigration.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:59 13.11.07
Whiteness.
It's been suggested by various non-white commentators recently that one of the most useful things that can be done for the future of race relations (in the UK) is for white people to interrogate whiteness. Want to have a go?
'Gwaaaaan
:: STARTED BY Goodness Gracious Meme
:: 145 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:07 24.10.07
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