Early Access for Video Prescription! The Revenge of the Object
Added 2023-11-20 23:05:58 +0000 UTCI turned our reading series from here into a video (finally). Be sure to watch it without ads this week!
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Damn, you up'd your production game. Thirst thumb, on point.
Khemith
2023-11-28 09:01:36 +0000 UTCthe Kantian Menace will be given no refuge
zolo
2023-11-26 02:59:02 +0000 UTCSeduction VLog series SOON !
zolo
2023-11-26 02:45:16 +0000 UTCThough this video wasn't specifically about systems theory, I've been wondering in light of the recent-ish pod cast series on Luhmann's ideas, how they might intersect with Deleuze's "machine." If anyone has a horse in that race, I'd be curious to hear if they seem compatible to you.
Anthony De Angelis
2023-11-22 13:43:18 +0000 UTCGeorge Monbiot's Regenesis almost makes a similar case for animal protein as done here for oil. He also references systems theory a fair bit and talks about soil as plants' (post-body/individual?) stomach, biome, and immune system
Alex B
2023-11-22 10:29:10 +0000 UTCReading through the comments and recent topics in the space brought to mind this excerpt from Carlo Rovelli's Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity: “In the world described by quantum mechanics there is no reality except in the relations between physical systems. It isn’t things that enter into relations but, rather, relations that ground the notion of ‘thing’. The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects: it is a world of events. Things are built by the happening of elementary events: as the philosopher Nelson Goodman wrote in the 1950s, in a beautiful phrase, ‘An object is a monotonous process.’ A stone is a vibration of quanta that maintains its structure for a while, just as a marine wave maintains its identity for a while before melting again into the sea.”
fluffehkitteh
2023-11-22 05:15:18 +0000 UTCNo argument needed :) . Looking forward to checking our Stirner ! Thanks for the insight !
Richard Franklin
2023-11-21 14:18:01 +0000 UTCI'd argue that the first post-humanist and anti-Hegelian was Max Stirner https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrew-m-koch-max-stirner-the-last-hegelian-or-the-first-poststructuralist
anacidcommie
2023-11-21 11:42:25 +0000 UTCWhat the video and the Revenge of the Object vlog series have shown is that more often than not, it's objects which use us, and make a mockery of the notion of human agency. And this is consistent with a historical materialist conception of the world and history, as well as approaches like systems theory. The free subject is a myth, as the subject has always been determined by material conditions, systems, ie, objects. Another thing to love in approaches like psychoanalysis is the fact that people can be objects, or rather that from the perspective of a subject, others are objects, and so once the perception shifts off of you and onto, say, a loved one, you yourself become an object to them. So this strict dichotomy is not only made up, but a humanist conceit invented as an ideology to not only feel better about ourselves, but to justify the way we treat the world as nothing but a disposable object that exists to accumulate capital. But aside from the examples Pill gave in this video, climate change is another object that is taking its revenge on the arrogant subject as we speak.
anacidcommie
2023-11-21 11:25:04 +0000 UTCGreat video tying together the Baudrillard stuff and making a case for a systems approach.
l. mark harris
2023-11-21 10:05:02 +0000 UTCMushrooms are quite influential objects too, if they can be considered that. Doesn't it however require human agency to use objects in the first place? Of course we've been using objects since forever, so the question may not make sense. I just find it difficult to wrap my head around the agency of an object. Great video, as always.
Marton Bencze
2023-11-21 09:52:10 +0000 UTCVery provocative title
Ashley H
2023-11-21 05:28:35 +0000 UTCHi Pills
Ashley H
2023-11-21 05:05:51 +0000 UTCCrazy how you made this so incredibly accessible. There is literally zero prior knowledge needed and you'll still learn a lot from it - brillant 🙏
hoppi
2023-11-21 00:26:40 +0000 UTCSo good . Really appreciate the genealogy of philosophical subject - object dualism . I’ve been studying the “ 4Es of cognition “ for a while as I find the “ externalization of consciousness “ not only a crucial understanding for me ( as an educator ) but as an ethical claim for how we (mis) treat OBJECTS . Posthumanism and Nietzsche ( the OG post human ) bringing it all together for me ! Keep up the great work ; thank you 🙏
Richard Franklin
2023-11-20 23:29:20 +0000 UTCThis mf dont miss
Leonardo L
2023-11-20 23:12:12 +0000 UTC
