07 February 2005
derailed!
Quite impressed with how spectacularly my blog has been derailed...and how I have sneakily managed to remain 'friends' with everyone (ok, I really am trying to wreck everything now. Come on my scum readership, destroy me!). Feel strangely pleased that someone called Kathy writes to tells me they like my blog - and I thought it was only pored over by aggressive philosophy men of varying theo/politico/analytico/affiliations. Whilst I can't get enough of arguing with boys, I wonder how many girls read my blog...and how many philosophy girls in particular - more or less my favourite type of person, though in ridiculously short supply. (And I thought Lisa Simpson would have more of an impact than that.)
I have, though, enjoyed the more or less mentalist extremes to which the debates have tended:
'Why do you hide your identity? Are you fat?'
'Heidegger and Husserl are in hades I suspect'
'You're going to get me flunked with flying monkey's?'
'Hail Lord Russell'
'a Mediterranean cruise with a lecherous, dogmatic Wittgen-Quinean who calls you 'dear''
'Logos reigns supreme'
And so on....anyway, whilst doing my work like a good postgrad student, I came across this fine quote which I thought summed things up quite beautifully:
'Men's political, economic and ideological conflicts are the quarrels of lovers who know not that they love. Let them realize it, let their eyes be opened, let the scales fall and their truth be unveiled, let them know the truth, and love will be realized, will become reality. To love is to be a communist.' - Louis Althusser, 'On Feuerbach' (1967) from The Humanist Controversy.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I have, though, enjoyed the more or less mentalist extremes to which the debates have tended:
'Why do you hide your identity? Are you fat?'
'Heidegger and Husserl are in hades I suspect'
'You're going to get me flunked with flying monkey's?'
'Hail Lord Russell'
'a Mediterranean cruise with a lecherous, dogmatic Wittgen-Quinean who calls you 'dear''
'Logos reigns supreme'
And so on....anyway, whilst doing my work like a good postgrad student, I came across this fine quote which I thought summed things up quite beautifully:
'Men's political, economic and ideological conflicts are the quarrels of lovers who know not that they love. Let them realize it, let their eyes be opened, let the scales fall and their truth be unveiled, let them know the truth, and love will be realized, will become reality. To love is to be a communist.' - Louis Althusser, 'On Feuerbach' (1967) from The Humanist Controversy.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
