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“Postmodern philosophy” isn’t a genre term any more than “experimental music” is. Both are wide signifiers that include any number of strategies under their respective umbrellas. However, that doesn’t dissuade people from easily ignoring the latter because anything that is experimental is therefore difficult or unlistenable or denigrating the former because all postmodern philosophy is [...]
Filed by andyb at June 24th, 2009 under philosophy
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One of the things that is essentially mindblowing about the linear thinking in the West, or perhaps globally at this point, is that it is either the result of simple, outright ignorance or the willful disregard of reality in order to attain one’s own ends at the expense of whatever: people, other countries, the ecosystem, [...]
Filed by andyb at April 14th, 2009 under philosophy
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I just ran across this anecdote about Sydney Morgenbesser which reads like something my comedy writing partner and I would write for our alternate dimension counterparts The Riot Act. “One day in New York City, Morgenbesser put his pipe in his mouth as he was ascending the subway steps. A policeman approached and told him [...]
Filed by andyb at August 20th, 2008 under philosophy
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This is just something quick, but I was reading the Woody Allen interview in today’s Onion AV Club (and first of all, he just finished a movie starring Larry David!), and Allen said something that really summed up what I was trying to talk about in an earlier post in a much more eloquent and [...]
Filed by andyb at August 13th, 2008 under philosophy
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Jesus, what a shitty title. I don’t even really read DC comics, so why I even know who Gorilla Grodd is, is beyond me. Probably the Justice League cartoon. Anyway, There are three things I thought worth writing about, hence no cohesive theme, hence the following clusterfuck: 1) My friend’s husband is a professional blogger [...]
Filed by andyb at July 13th, 2008 under Complexity, gripes, philosophy
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I haven’t written in here in a while because I’ve mostly been reading and digesting a lot of stuff on dynamics, reading both these books: and though I had a lot of preliminary stuff with Chuck Dyke in grad school , this is a whole ‘nother level, especially as I try to envision exactly what [...]
Filed by andyb at July 7th, 2008 under Complexity, philosophy
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Each of these topics on it’s own seems like waste to post about since I’ve only got a little to add to each, and with the latter, writing anything at all seems to be the useless act of a little Nero (I suppose we’re all little Neros at this point anyway. In any event, if [...]
Filed by andyb at April 27th, 2008 under Complexity, philosophy
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I only subscribe to one magazine, The Believer. The cost is modest, and there’s usually at least a few worthwhile bits in each issue, although the whole thing kind of stinks of the mainstream intelligensia habitus that I found so distasteful in academia. Nevertheless, I myself am entrained in a large part to that habitus, [...]
Filed by andyb at March 7th, 2008 under philosophy
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I’ve been meaning to write for months, but as usual teaching has gotten in the way. So, while most of the stuff I’ve been having my students read has been fertile ground to expound upon here, it’s also been impossible to have more than a few spare moments in which to arrange the disparate threads, [...]
Filed by andyb at March 6th, 2008 under philosophy
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I haven’t written here in a while, mostly due to the fact that I’ve had nothing to say. At the end of last semester, I had some thoughts about what direction philosophy could go in, some things culled from what I was teaching in a critical thinking course at a local college here in Philly, [...]
Filed by andyb at January 14th, 2008 under gripes, philosophy
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