Whats the difference between

[IdleRich]

"so continental philosophy/critical theory if it wants to be understood across a broader section and beyond needs transliterated again into lowest common denom language"

Big if.

"Josef K is quality and missed. he plays squash with Zhao"

Really? Who wins?

 

[matt b]

then proceeds to tell me what the alternative is and what i should do.

you are taking the piss?

 

[zhao]

just got an email from josef that he is leaving berlin... but hopefully he'll come back around here.

 

[IdleRich]

But who is best at squash?

 

[zhao]

you know, both of us being stoner slackers, we never got around to playing squash... anyone else in these parts interested in getting their ass whooped get in touch.

 

[IdleRich]

"you know, both of us being stoner slackers, we never got around to playing squash... anyone else in these parts interested in getting their ass whooped get in touch."

Hmm, the second part of the sentence is somewhat undermined by the first. I would love to play if I were in Berlin - my playing partner introduced me to the game, got me addicted and then injured himself so he can't play. I'm having terrible withdrawal symptoms.

 

[Tentative Andy]

^^ Ok, hopefully clearing up some more confusion - when I said about k-punk implementing his ideas through his teaching I didn't mean he was operating some kind of mind-control to turn kids over to the kyber-punk program, just that he taught courses about things he was interested in like Spinoza, Badiou and so forth. It was an example that occured to me of something practical he was doing for a time outside of the blog/message board/on-line mag/specialist publication network with which he's usually associated.

 

[scottdisco]

[...] things he was interested in like Spinoza [...]

you certainly can't get more practical than a lens grinder!

 

[vimothy]

"...the soft narcosis, the simstim eternity, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation, all-night TV and marijuana. Capital's interpassive nihilism."

 

[scottdisco]

 

[vimothy]

 

[Room with a view]

you are taking the piss?

no, i'm entirely serious. i'm getting a bit over people highlighting problems without offering solutions. and i'm not talking grand solutions requiring the immediate overthrow of the state to implement the new new world order. i want to be shown something personal to do that might make a difference and change things for the better in the long term even if it means making things worse in the meantime.

i'm hoping k-punk can tell me what that is. does he have a grand plan and he's slowly indoctrinating us in a piecemeal fashion ? if not then whats his point, his purpose, his raison d'etre ? does he need to put up or shut up and basically walk the talk so others may follow or is he doing enough as it is ?

 

[Mr. Tea]

k-punk: "Look. You've got it all wrong. You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves. You're all individuals!"

Room with a view (et al): "YES! WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!!!"

 

[john eden]

no, i'm entirely serious. i'm getting a bit over people highlighting problems without offering solutions. and i'm not talking grand solutions requiring the immediate overthrow of the state to implement the new new world order. i want to be shown something personal to do that might make a difference and change things for the better in the long term even if it means making things worse in the meantime.

i'm hoping k-punk can tell me what that is. does he have a grand plan and he's slowly indoctrinating us in a piecemeal fashion ? if not then whats his point, his purpose, his raison d'etre ? does he need to put up or shut up and basically walk the talk so others may follow or is he doing enough as it is ?

It's not about individuals. It isn't about you, it isn't about k-punk.

do you seriously think we are all sitting here with THE answer for YOU, but we won't reveal it because you haven't asked the question in the correct manner?

Or that if you read k-punk's book or blog carefully enough that the answer will reveal itself? If you have questions for him, then ask him...

 

[lanugo]

"...the soft narcosis, the simstim eternity, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation, all-night TV and marijuana. Capital's interpassive nihilism."

Where's that from?

 

[luka]

its from kpunks blog

 

[Room with a view]

I
do you seriously think we are all sitting here with THE answer for YOU, but we won't reveal it because you haven't asked the question in the correct manner?

no i think most of you have no idea and are too scared to say what the answer MIGHT be for fear of losing face

Or that if you read k-punk's book or blog carefully enough that the answer will reveal itself?

YES

If you have questions for him, then ask him...

i bloody well will. all in good time

 

[baboon2004]

i'm hoping k-punk can tell me what that is. does he have a grand plan and he's slowly indoctrinating us in a piecemeal fashion ? if not then whats his point, his purpose, his raison d'etre ? does he need to put up or shut up and basically walk the talk so others may follow or is he doing enough as it is ?

i think he probably needs a tv show, or at least an hour on rinse every week. if possible, rapping continental philosophy, which is actually the BEST idea anyone has ever had.

 

[Room with a view]

yeah i thought woebot tv would have been a brilliant format for him to co-opt ?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Yo, check my man Badiou, I tell ya he ain't no foo'
get down with Saussure, he'll wise you up fo' sure
chill with Habermas, get critical on yo ass
kick back with Nietzsche, that dawg'll teach ya
but word up homie, I don't roll with Heid-igga
cuz that Nazi shit just don't figga for a nigga