Writing Philosophy: The Unclear Clarity

The Book “I Want to Write” Levi at Larval Subject mourns that a student had bought his book on Deleuze, knowing that without training in the obscurities of vocabulary and concept the book is pretty much useless (except one might suggest, as a small tome of incantations, not a measure to be undervalued in the [...]

The Unrare, Assemblage and Implicate Power: Kairos, Complexity and Ethical Greatness

     Spinoza, Nietzsche, (Jesus and Satan) on the “Right Time”  Therefore Jesus said to them, my kairos has not yet arrived, but your kairos always is ready. John 7:6 Our investigation begins at a moment when Nietzsche seems to question, in a fully dialectical moment, the spearhead of his discourse, that is, an assumed rarity [...]

How Normative Is the Greek Chorus? Spinoza, Rorty, Davidson and Sophocles

Geometry of Know A passing comment recalled to me a certain conceptual break through. I was studying Davidson’s “Three Varieties of Knowledge”which presents his theory of Triangulation while at the same time studying narratology, and looking into Bakhtin. For some reason discussion of mimetic and deitic elements suddenly struck me as revealing of the elemental [...]