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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

The Attributes of Philosophy

posted by on October 16 at 10:48 AM

The sun, Alain Badiou, and a bird.
AlainBADIOU_bird.jpg The one, the man, the life. The absolute, the thought, the being. Philosophy says almost nothing else than what is in this image.

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1

Huh.

Posted by Amelia | October 16, 2007 10:57 AM
2

Ooh. Is that an ortolan? Yum!

Posted by MoTown | October 16, 2007 11:03 AM
3

That white bird is being oppressed.

Posted by monkey | October 16, 2007 11:07 AM
4

No, it's the dove of peace being pinned down by a jealous God in the form of Man.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 16, 2007 11:22 AM
5

Sucks changing meds, doesn't it? Fucks up everything for like a week.

Posted by Greg | October 16, 2007 11:23 AM
6

None of the words in this post have any meaning.

Posted by Fnarf | October 16, 2007 11:25 AM
7

Gort: Klaatu Barata Nictu.

Posted by Michael Rennie | October 16, 2007 11:50 AM
8

3=========D

Posted by zzzzzzzzz | October 16, 2007 12:03 PM
9

i am too dumb to understand this.

Posted by gforce | October 16, 2007 12:22 PM
10

#9: Wrong.

It's funny, I was thinking about Badiou's "disaster of the unlimited", and I think it might plug even better into certain overindulgences on the internets - like this here blog! hmmm...

Posted by Fyodor Zulinski | October 16, 2007 12:51 PM
11

OK, pretty off topic; the bird pic reminds me:

I was expecting to find some SLOGging on Guillermo Habacuc Vargas today, judging by the internet fury surrounding him.

Anyone know if it's true? Charles would be the man to report it.

Posted by Dougsf | October 16, 2007 1:00 PM
12

You are one sublime motherfucker.

Posted by Grant Cogswell | October 16, 2007 1:18 PM
13

@11

Who?

Posted by MoTown | October 16, 2007 1:27 PM
14

True, as far as I'm concerned. But I prefer to read that tone of reverence ironically.

Ugh. Makes me want to pour a drink and read Derrida.

Posted by Irena | October 16, 2007 2:51 PM
15

#13: Guillermo Habacuc Vargas is a Costa Rican artist who they that country chose to represent them in a big upcoming South American exhibit.

Apparently, he recently had an exhibition in which he displayed a live, starving dog, tied in the gallery, as his installation. He prevented anyone from feeding it, and sadly no one intervened; needless to say, the dog died... I assume horribly.

Posted by Dougsf | October 16, 2007 4:36 PM
16

I thought that was a photo of Larry Craig.

Posted by Hoyt Clagwell | October 16, 2007 5:22 PM
17

Charles Mudede may have nothing more to say than what is in that picture, but I assure you philosophy does.

Obfuscation does not prove that there is meaning to obfuscate. You can encrypt white noise, but it's still white noise.

Posted by supergp | October 16, 2007 5:22 PM
18

Dougsf, that's horrible.

Posted by Fnarf | October 16, 2007 7:01 PM
19

You know that thing people do with their hand where they make a fist and move it back and forth to simulate jerking off? How do you do that on-line? Because this post demands that simulated masturbation.

Posted by Nick | October 17, 2007 9:31 AM
20

#18 Fnarf, I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, I only know of all this through and online petition/chain mail I received, so I'm naturally skeptical these events are real. ("The [insert evil company] animal testing lab is closing, send this to everyone you know, we must adopt these beagles!" bullshit is the last one I got.)

The artist I do know actually exist, and I do know he makes pretentious, douchee art. I wish someone credible would pic the story up so I can figure out whether or not this guy need to be burned at the stake. If the story is true, he really is the worst kind of human.

Posted by Dougsf | October 17, 2007 2:04 PM
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@10 on top of being dumb, i'm wrong, too? damn. or am i wrong about being dumb? you'll have to go a little slower for me.

Posted by gforce | October 17, 2007 8:12 PM

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