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this feels to me like building philosopher selections on a barroom juke box.
which hits do i spin most frequently?
later wittgenstein
castoriadis
lefort
husserl
dilthey
sometimes heidegger, which is like playing "into the mystic"
each of which configures and reconfigures the Tradition
and which thereby assumes and requires engagement with
the Great Conversation between isolated Thinkers.
since the teaching of philosophy in america at least is trapped entirely in exegetical mode, i do not see any necessary or direct link between who one reads and how one thinks about the world in "real time"....so here---even here---ways of thinking about the world, of doing philosophy, get reduced to a series of labels in a box that one can interact with when one feels like dancing and leave silent when one prefers continuing to drink.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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