Pill Pod 67 - Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology (Exclusive)
Added 2022-01-21 14:01:04 +0000 UTCThis one is exclusively for you all. Thanks for selecting the topic and voting! Looking forward to seeing your comments on the first 15 mins or so. And remember: Plato was an idiot.
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And I’m with Victor on Heidegger. I had to read a bunch of late Heidegger last semester for Jameson’s class, and it was my least favorite set of texts. Maybe I’m not sensitive to poetry, but his movement from philological analysis to poetic expression makes me roll my eyes. I mean he tries to sound profound about the use of a jug… I imagine Nietzsche would have made fun of him like he did Schopenhauer for playing the flute.
Walker Goff
2022-02-14 20:30:15 +0000 UTCA good approach to Accelerationism and Nick Land would be Benjamin Noys’ book Malign Velocities. It references Italian Futurism too. I think Noys is at least partially mistaken about the topic, but it’s a good short read. I wrote a term paper about it lol.
Walker Goff
2022-02-14 18:13:36 +0000 UTCyes do the acid episode
Tim Ritchie
2022-01-25 04:25:00 +0000 UTCI’m currently the Greens candidate in a NSW state by-election in order to start discussion about the link between native forest logging, climate change and the black summer bushfires of 2019-2020. I have been involved in Extinction Rebellion actions in the last weeks and months. I am a political ecologist. I am also just a cafe owner, dealing with employees and suppliers and raising a family. What has been interesting is the way that knowledge has been deployed since our climate change 9/11 event. One group of universities aligned with the State, logging and agriculture have formed a group called the Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub which produces statistical analysis that states that logging does not increase fire risk (this in itself is a move away from their previous position that logging reduces fire severity). Another group of universities called the Bushfire Recovery Project argues using meta-studies and by developing an understanding of the structure of forests argues that the most severe fires, crown fires, are much more likely in a logged forest. If you ask five people to define Nature your probably going to get at least six different answers. As a political ecologist I don’t do Nature but a lot of my comrades on the barricades do, and that’s ok. For me it starts with a need to recognise the limits of the Human and Zizeks real Real can serve this purpose providing it isn’t just deployed as some sort of ontological footnote. Matt’s disparaging of vulgar humanism ignores the fact that they are the ones in power. When Musk talks of saving the light of consciousness, Brian Cox’s review of “Don’t Look Up” (frighteningly hilarious), even our material and reactive response to COVID-19 are all examples of a vulgar humanism that assumes a disconnect to the Real. The danger of capitalism is that, like humanism in general, it’s not materialist enough. A prime example of this is the neoliberal economic concept, held by many academic free market economists, of “endogenous growth theory”.
Peter Haggar
2022-01-23 22:59:42 +0000 UTCHeidegger was right in that critique of both capitalists and socialists at the time, in the sense of that they're both still focused on production, but Marx was big on how a main aspect of communism is actually overcoming the value form and the logic of production, so that does seem like a misrepresentation of socialism, both in Marxian and in a lot of anarchist senses as well. Since you mentioned Daddy and his temperament here, please tell me you've read his article on why he resigned from the University of Toronto a few days ago.
anacidcommie
2022-01-23 21:28:13 +0000 UTCYou deserve a like just for the continuous dunking on Plato tbh
anacidcommie
2022-01-23 18:08:22 +0000 UTCLacan tried to show Heidegger the Real as objet a but the old man had lost it by then
Steve B
2022-01-23 00:14:41 +0000 UTCWonderful
The Gfc draws
2022-01-22 21:41:50 +0000 UTCHahahaha I can imagine the strained voice of my Ancient Greek Philosophy prof clapping back
genrepunk
2022-01-22 16:11:05 +0000 UTCFunny, I just bought this book.
Max Olson
2022-01-22 07:35:01 +0000 UTCNow THIS is content
Socialswine
2022-01-22 01:15:06 +0000 UTCThank you for acknowledging your roles as moral overlords.
GolfBaller
2022-01-21 23:16:51 +0000 UTCYayy! :) so happy my option got chosen. Made my day Matt says at around 18 minutes, referencing Zizek, that it is really disappointing that Heidegger didn’t say anything about the Holocaust in relation to technology Actually Heidegger did. In lecture he gave in 1949. Also the only time that he mentions the genoicide. Although his main concern is technology and agriculture, not the Holocaust: ‘’Farming is now a motorized food industry, in essence the same as the fabrication of corpses in gas chambers and extermination camps.’’
stoorzender
2022-01-21 17:29:17 +0000 UTCLmao "nature is losing and now people want to cry about it"
Joey McAuley
2022-01-21 17:12:29 +0000 UTCOmg I can’t wait for Victor to read Fanged Noumena
Zack Klug
2022-01-21 16:15:52 +0000 UTCI can't wait to hear this. One the my favourite later Heidegger writings.
Andrew Ferguson
2022-01-21 15:32:50 +0000 UTCI would personally welcome Erik as my moral overlord @ 4:54
Miguel de Jesus
2022-01-21 14:16:40 +0000 UTC
