philosophy

A Misosophical Confession

Written by Toby Austin Locke, 10.09.2014
 
“Thought is primarily trespass and violence, the enemy, and nothing presupposes philosophy:
everything begins with misosophy.”(1)

“As far as ‘thought’ is concerned, works are falsifications, since they eliminate the provisional and the non-repeatable, the instantaneous and the mingling of purity and impurity, disorder and order.”(2)

“I distrust all systematisers, and avoid them. The will to a system shows a lack of honesty”(3)

 

What has become of lovers of knowledge today? What is the fate of those once revered and proud seekers of truth, those honest and upstanding journeymen of essences and universality? The shadows of these lovers of knowledge and wisdom appear to flit across the mirrors in which we seek ourselves, never leaving more than a fleeting impression, a muffled articulation that no sooner has found expression than it once more disintegrates amidst the determined babble of self-assured objection. And these shadows whisper to us of their own demise, of their submission to the systematisation of knowledge as utmost morality that rests never far from the surface of the façade which emerges of the demand and insistence for a unitary reality. If there is a philosopher of the future, their voice is meek amidst the uproar of accusation and blame; their gaze powerless when confronted with the piercing eyes of certainty; their will ensnared by the blockages and channels of a continually reinforced spiral of systematisation that sets before it the task of absolute universalisation.

Teenage Philosophy

Written by Federico Campagna, 10.07.2013
Philosophy, in all its many and wide articulations, is perhaps too large a discipline to encompass with only one definition. It is thinking developed into understanding, and understanding unfolded as imagination. It is theory – in its etymological meaning of passionate, empathic observing – of life and of the world. Having observed life, like sailors used to do with the stars at night, philosophers draw a map for the rest of their journey, which they follow and change as their journey progresses.
Although philosophy has been often thought to have to do with understanding the world, or with changing it, I would claim that it essentially has to do with the art of inhabiting it.
 
Yet, such a fundamental discipline has long been relegated to the miserable position of an ancient dance remembered only by the elderly, or of a fast-fading dialect. Something of a secret cult to be performed far away from the world, deep inside the catacombs of academia.
 
Such a regression, I believe, originates from two main sources: one is to be found among the philosophers, the other among those who are not philosophers, and in particular non-philosophizing young people.

Relazioni Sociali: Manifesto per 3punto0

Written by Giovanni Dursi, 04.09.2011

Se su Web 2.0 non c'è una definizione univoca (quando i termini diventano di "successo", se ne perde l'eziologia), perché voler "definire" il "concetto" di 3punto0 ? O'Reilly nel 2004, usò Web 2.0 per indicare quell'arcipelago di applicazioni, sw, ambienti che consentivano un elevato grado di interazione e collaborazione tra utenti in rete. In questo senso, O'Reilly e gli altri intendevano contrapporlo al web originario, 1.0. Sono molti quelli - e tra loro anche Tim Berners Lee, che la rete l'ha fondata - che di fronte a questo neologismo hanno qualche difficoltà euristica. Il termine “Web 2.0", coniato appositamente nel 2005 da Tim O’Reilly per designare molteplici tecniche e applicazioni interattive in Internet, tuttavia, dal momento che la gran parte delle tecnologie non è qualcosa di nuovo, descrive innanzitutto una rinnovata filosofia in relazione a InterNET.

Un decalogo per pensare ed agire collettivamente, nel presente

Written by Giovanni Dursi, 10.07.2011

Un decalogo per pensare il presente ed agire collettivamente in esso. Con la “lentezza” necessaria. La lentezza è consapevolezza e attenzione al ‘qui e ora’. A volte, pare indispensabile una ‘snap decision’, cioè decidere rapidamente, esercitare una capacità – la velocità - che va conservata a patto che ci sia una lucidità e una consapevolezza alla base, ma soprattutto una 'libertà di pensiero e d'azione', in verità, negletta socialmente.
Gli antichi greci la chiamavano kairòs, il momento opportuno.

The Ghost Dance of the Economy

Written by Federico Campagna, 29.06.2011

(music: ‘Stress’ by Justice)

As a matter of fact, economy is the religion of the current era. It is through the economy that the inhabitants of today’s world are given the possibility to achieve a better life (once the afterlife has disappeared), to enter the Olympus of glamour, and to be today’s equivalent of a good believer: that is, a winner. Like every religion, the economy also has its churches, its priests and its wars.

The main religious war ended just twenty years ago, when the crusaders of Western Capitalism defeated the infidels of Soviet Marxism. A few years of jubilee followed, through the 1990s, when the gods of growth, credit and liquidity (the holy trinity of GDP) cast their benevolent gaze all over the chosen people of the West.  But then, inevitably, as soon as the golden age ended, a new wave of war took over.

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