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Yup. Neo-neo-neo-neo classicism. Very outre. Nobody in the West has ever thunk of it.

HMLT should never have been banned.

He is literally a Platonist and believes in Forms.

Also, when people talk about people being "ignorant" online, it reminds me of when people on reality shows fall into cliches like "she's so FAKE" or "I'm not here to make friends", for some reason... What is usually called "ignorance" is often just a lack of proper middle class socialization...

Do you have to ask? All over the world right now, there are still people holding conferences and ex-spending precious natural resources over things as important and pressing as the legacy of Democritus. Marx is good for at least another few thousand years.

The sophists weren't "trolls" by any stretch of the imagination, they were simply the established "professional" philosophers (sort of like modern-day academics) of their time. Plato, of course, charged anyone who didn't believe philosophy was about eternal "truths" and "forms" with Sophism...

Socrates was called "the gadfly" for a reason, he was a troll before Jesus invented trolls.

Yes, it does, but the contextual differences matter here. "Finding common ground" is really not high on philosopher's priority list. Unless you think philosophy is some sort of a perversion of a moral discourse, which apparently some people do. I'd question how much of it you've actually read...

I like his wall of sound etc but having listened to the vast majority of the lyrics from his songs, and to his ex-wife's tales, I can't say I'm surprised that this (very misogynistic) guy eventually killed a woman.

Hey massrock, ever read the dialogues? I have, in Greek. Philosophy was originally a very long, sustained, almost fucking tantric form of argument. For that matter, do you have any experience with philosophy, or are you just a typical message board idiot with nothing to say but a real...

from Theoretical Writings:

I have no idea what this means...

Haha biomedical research humor!

I know who wrote that, it was HMLT. There have always been plenty of people who weren't on the Badiou bandwagon. I agree with IT that the fact that this has to be conceived in terms of "bandwagons" at all is stupid, and probably a function of the medium in question. But there have always been...

Philosophy in the U.S. is not a 'cock-fest' at all, and the problems are still the same. I wonder where "sexism" comes into this... Anyway, I don't think jobs are really going to be quit. IT is how-you-say charmingly neurotic, that's all. I suppose it comes with the territory, woman/cockfest.

Oh, sure, but most people aren't really interested in coming up against their imaginary "opposition", are they? It sort of shatters their perfect image.

This is why I find it hilarious when bloggers supposedly interested in "philosophy" get all uptight about disagreements and online arguments, the types who are from the "can't we all just get along" school of commenting. Philosophy IS arguing, then writing, then arguing-- that's what it's always...

This wouldn't be the first time I was on the cutting edge of a backlash. ;)

Actually I like that idea, if only because it finally admits that technological not "historical" progress is the driving force behind "revolutions" or social change...it needn't be some transcendent category, it's just the name for a process. I also think he might be using the term in the more...

the number of the priest Wow. Reading Infinite Thought (the book not the blog) is like going to a psychic and being told that good things come in fours. Over, and over, and over, and over.