curation

5 ms·

1.
by curation 1mo ago
Stand for something more than yourself. Be curious and learn about folks you meet. I am in my 50s and have many young and old friends, including 5 new ones this year.
2.
by curation 2mo ago
wildberries has been taken over by an oligarch and the only powers in Russia that Putin may hear are the oligarchs. There will be no 'overthrow of Putin' in Russia because there is no institutional support and it is well understoo
3.
by curation 2mo ago
and canada
4.
by curation 4mo ago
LLMs do not have an unconscious, the negative dimension from which a subject can question what they. LLMs do not have desire because they are thoughts without a thinker. The problem is not LLMS but rather, that subjectivity itself is not po
5.
by curation 7mo ago
I grew up in Canadian snowbelt (Great Lakes) and never lost power. If there is an ice storm - then we all freak out. I'm not saying it can't happen if a lot of snow falls and then there is wind but we lose power in summer more oft
6.
by curation 2y ago
The book Sublime Object of Ideology (Zizek) and a second volume due soon attempts an interdisciplinary reframing of the theory of everything - working with Quantum Physicists and Material Hegelian/Lacanian philosophy. I am a philosophe
7.
by curation 2y ago
The source of our acts of freedom leans more heavily towards our unconscious. This is because our consciousness is ruled by social order, economic order, ideology etc. We take facts, advice that fit what our unconscious can use. For example
8.
by curation 2y ago
The Yandex translate is excellent - especially for the Georgian language vs Google and others.
9.
by curation 2y ago
The failure of language to provide for us a way to precisely say what we mean results in consciousness. (Lacan/Slovenian Troika/McGowan/Benjamin etc)
10.
by curation 2y ago
The most uncanny thing in the world is the observation of our subjectivity in action.
11.
by curation 2y ago
Wealth inequality of the Global South has reached the West. Folks will have to live in smaller spaces with more people.
12.
by curation 2y ago
I am 51 and have run 10km a day for 28 years. I stretch 1-2 hours per day (yoga/pilates/general stretching) and remain completely pain free.
13.
by curation 3y ago
Only a Joke Can Save Us - Todd McGowan and incredible and accurate analysis of what comedy is.
14.
by curation 3y ago
The point of philosophy is to ask better questions, specifically questions that do not mystify the problem and thus perpetuate it. It's is not and has never been about answers. - love, a philospher
15.
by curation 3y ago
As a critical theorist, Freud was rejected alongside many old white dudes in an understandable reactionary reflex for many decades. One had to turn to Fanon to access thinking about the unconscious. I would argue that currents in philosophy
16.
by curation 3y ago
Philosophy is accurately describing an antagonism instead of asking questions which just further mystify the antagonism allowing it to continue, unabated. This is the time for philosophers.
17.
by curation 3y ago
cool!
18.
by curation 3y ago
What if universality is a name for a kind of antagonism? What comes first is not a wholeness that is disturbed, but difference itself. Reality itself is unfinished and built in parallax. This new theory alongside current metaphysical theori
19.
by curation 3y ago
In my homeless youth I intermittently fasted out of no choice. I was really skinny.
20.
by curation 3y ago
UAW and Sean Fein !
21.
by curation 3y ago
Tblisi Georgia does this as well. The dogs are ear tagged and are sort of like the community pets.
22.
by curation 3y ago
What does authenticity mean here? It is an ideological term - meaning, no one will assert they are trying to be inauthentic.
23.
by curation 3y ago
I'm aware of this project: https://www.noeton.fi/ They have a device that goes into your fireplace removes cancer causing substances to EU standards. They are a group of Finnish scientists and friends who wanted to fin
24.
by curation 3y ago
No.Consciousness is the remainder left over after the creation of the universe. It is not fabric-like but more like an impossible kernal that, like reality, cannot ever be finalized.
25.
by curation 3y ago
They Live! (1988) - we need to invent these glasses that lay bare our unknown knowns.
26.
by curation 3y ago
Our social order rewards being a martyr for capitalism. We supplement the banality of capitalist enjoyments with the surplus enjoyment of observing others lives in hell - in wars, in starvation and killing themselves. We should not look so
27.
by curation 4y ago
Yes. I'm learning Russian, traveling all the time, studying philosophy, working with a small think tank and I've become a black belt in Krav Maga. I hate stuff, don't miss it and learning a language has changed my writing, th
28.
by curation 4y ago
The concept of planet B is itself ideological. Climate change is a symptom of capitalism; which remains unchallenged. Why is it easier to imagine a zombie apocalypse than a different economic system. Varoufakis Another Now attempts this. Un
29.
by curation 4y ago
Similar. I left home at 15 made my own way. I saved 95% of what I made - drank powdered milk, worked 7 days a week for 15 years multiple jobs, side jobs (flip houses, production company). But I set a goal so, unlike my grandmother, who neve
30.
by curation 4y ago
Obesity drugs treat a North American symptom - obesity. The cause remains untreated.

More ›