through europe - philosophy http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/41/0 en A Misosophical Confession http://th-rough.eu/writers/locke-eng/misosophical-confession <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtecenter"> <img alt="" rel="lightbox" src="/sites/default/files2/gallery/Screen shot 2014-09-10 at 16.36.09.png" style="width: 600px; height: 402px;" /></div> <div class="rteright"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rteright"> <em>&ldquo;Thought is primarily trespass and violence, the enemy, and nothing presupposes philosophy:<br /> </em></div> <div class="rteright"> <em>everything begins with misosophy.&rdquo;</em>(1) <p> <em>&ldquo;As far as &lsquo;thought&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;</em>(2)</p> <p> <em>&ldquo;I distrust all systematisers, and avoid them. The will to a system shows a lack of honesty&rdquo;</em>(3)</p></div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> <br /> 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 fa&ccedil;ade 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.</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/locke-eng/misosophical-confession" target="_blank">read more</a></p> locke-eng knowledge misosophy Nietzsche nihilism philosophy time English Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:38:24 +0000 Toby Austin Locke 372 at http://th-rough.eu Teenage Philosophy http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/teenage-philosophy <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> 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 &ndash; in its etymological meaning of passionate, empathic observing &ndash; 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.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> 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.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> 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.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> 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.</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/teenage-philosophy" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng philosophy teenagers English Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:37:45 +0000 Federico Campagna 334 at http://th-rough.eu Relazioni Sociali: Manifesto per 3punto0 http://th-rough.eu/writers/dursi-ita/relazioni-sociali-manifesto-3punto0 <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> Se su Web 2.0 non c&#39;&egrave; una definizione univoca (quando i termini diventano di &quot;successo&quot;, se ne perde l&#39;eziologia), perch&eacute; voler &quot;definire&quot; il &quot;concetto&quot; di 3punto0 ? O&#39;Reilly nel 2004, us&ograve; Web 2.0 per indicare quell&#39;arcipelago di applicazioni, sw, ambienti che consentivano un elevato grado di interazione e collaborazione tra utenti in rete. In questo senso, O&#39;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&#39;ha fondata - che di fronte a questo neologismo hanno qualche difficolt&agrave; euristica. Il termine &ldquo;Web 2.0&quot;, coniato appositamente nel 2005 da Tim O&rsquo;Reilly per designare molteplici tecniche e applicazioni interattive in Internet, tuttavia, dal momento che la gran parte delle tecnologie non &egrave; qualcosa di nuovo, descrive innanzitutto una rinnovata filosofia in relazione a InterNET.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/dursi-ita/relazioni-sociali-manifesto-3punto0" target="_blank">read more</a></p> dursi-ita philosophy policy semantics social relations theory urge web Italian Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:19:10 +0000 Giovanni Dursi 207 at http://th-rough.eu Un decalogo per pensare ed agire collettivamente, nel presente http://th-rough.eu/writers/dursi-ita/un-decalogo-pensare-ed-agire-collettivamente-nel-presente <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> Un decalogo per pensare il presente ed agire collettivamente in esso. Con la &ldquo;lentezza&rdquo; necessaria. La lentezza &egrave; consapevolezza e attenzione al &lsquo;<strong>qui e ora</strong>&rsquo;. A volte, pare indispensabile una &lsquo;<em>snap decision</em>&rsquo;, cio&egrave; decidere rapidamente, esercitare una capacit&agrave; &ndash; la velocit&agrave; - che va conservata a patto che ci sia una lucidit&agrave; e una consapevolezza alla base, ma soprattutto una &#39;libert&agrave; di pensiero e d&#39;azione&#39;, in verit&agrave;, negletta socialmente.<br /> Gli antichi greci la chiamavano <strong>kair&ograve;s</strong>, il <strong>momento opportuno</strong>.</p> <p></p><p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/dursi-ita/un-decalogo-pensare-ed-agire-collettivamente-nel-presente" target="_blank">read more</a></p> dursi-ita biopolitics capitalism philosophy politics theory urge Italian Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:43:34 +0000 Giovanni Dursi 191 at http://th-rough.eu The Ghost Dance of the Economy http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/ghost-dance-economy <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rteright"> <em>(music: &lsquo;Stress&rsquo; by Justice)<br /> </em></p> <p class="rtejustify"> As a matter of fact, economy is the religion of the current era. It is through the economy that the inhabitants of today&rsquo;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&rsquo;s equivalent of a good believer: that is, a winner. Like every religion, the economy also has its churches, its priests and its wars.</p> <p class="rtejustify"> 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.&nbsp; But then, inevitably, as soon as the golden age ended, a new wave of war took over.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/ghost-dance-economy" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng capitalism de-growth drugs economics philosophy religion English Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:32:58 +0000 Federico Campagna 190 at http://th-rough.eu Toward the European Insurrection http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/toward-european-insurrection <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rteright"> <em>(<a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/verso-linsurrezione-europea">Italian</a> version of this article)<br /> </em></p> <p class="rtejustify"> <strong>Europe will be the product of your mind</strong></p> <p class="rtejustify"> Spring 2011 : the European Union is on the brink of the catastrophe, as Neoliberal dogmatism is imposing the diktat of the financial class upon the interests of society.<br /> Let&rsquo;s look back, before we try to understand what has to be done.</p> <p class="rtejustify"> In the year 1933 in his <em>Discours &agrave; la nation europ&eacute;enne</em>, Julien Benda wrote the following words :</p> <blockquote> <p class="rtejustify"> Vous ferez l&rsquo;Europe par ce que vous direz, non par ce que vous serez. L&rsquo;Europe sera un produit de votre esprit, de la volont&eacute; de votre esprit, non un produit de votre &ecirc;tre. Et si vous me r&eacute;pondez que vous ne croyez pas &agrave; l&rsquo;autonomie de l&rsquo;esprit, que votre esprit ne peut &ecirc;tre autre chose qu&rsquo;un aspect de votre &ecirc;tre, alors je vous d&eacute;clare que vous ne ferez jamais l&rsquo;Europe. Car il n&rsquo;y a pas d&rsquo;&Ecirc;tre europ&eacute;en.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/toward-european-insurrection" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-eng capitalism crisis Europe insurrection philosophy urge English Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:11:27 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 186 at http://th-rough.eu Cinismo, ironia e follia del media-potere Italiano http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/cinismo-ironia-e-follia-del-media-potere-italiano <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> <strong>Mass Zynismus</strong></p> <p> Nel libro <em>Le courage de la verit&eacute;</em>, trascrizione del corso al College de France del 1984 Le gouvernement de soi et des autres, Michel Foucault parla di Diogene e degli altri filosofi antichi che sono correntemente conosciuti come cinici, e collega il loro pensiero alla pratica del dire la verit&agrave; (<em>parresia</em>). Nei nostri tempi moderni la parola cinismo ha acquisito un significato totalmente differente, quasi un significato opposto: una persona cinica, per noi, &egrave; qualcuno che abitualmente mente a tutti, specialmente a se stesso/a.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/cinismo-ironia-e-follia-del-media-potere-italiano" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-ita berlusconi cynism irony Italy philosophy Italian Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:00:59 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 141 at http://th-rough.eu Irony, cynicism and the lunacy of the italian media power http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/irony-cynicism-and-lunacy-italian-media-power <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> <strong>Mass Zynismus</strong></p> <p class="rtejustify"> In his book <em>The courage of truth</em>&nbsp; (<em>Le courage de la verit&eacute;</em>), a transcript of lectures delivered at the College de France in 1984, Michel Foucault speaks of Diogenes and the other ancient philosophers known as cynicists and defines their thought as the practice of telling the truth (<em>parresia</em>).&nbsp; Twenty-five years later, the word cynicism has acquired a totally different meaning, almost opposite: the cynic is someone routinely lying to everyone, especially him or herself.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/irony-cynicism-and-lunacy-italian-media-power" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-eng berlusconi cynism irony Italy philosophy English Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:50:27 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 134 at http://th-rough.eu Il terrorismo del desiderio http://th-rough.eu/writers/coin-ita/il-terrorismo-del-desiderio <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> <strong>ovvero di rivoluzione e miele<br /> ovvero lettera ai compagni (e a Jung)</strong></p> <p> <strong>1.</strong></p> <p class="rtejustify"> Vorrei parlare di una storia d&#39;amore, quella tra Carl Gustav Jung e Sabina Spielrein. Il mio scopo in realt&agrave; &egrave; provare a discutere con un p&ograve; di cognizione di causa il cosiddetto scandalo sessuale che attuttoggi nella sua miseria eccita i media. Premetto che poco m&#39;importa della cosa in s&egrave;, m&#39;importa il fatto che tale scandalo abbia in realt&agrave; ben poco di scandaloso, anzi costituisca la prassi stessa in cui muovono oggi destra e sinistra istituzionale e non, ovvero buona parte dei potenti insieme ai rivoluzionari.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/coin-ita/il-terrorismo-del-desiderio" target="_blank">read more</a></p> coin-ita Carl Gustav Jung love philosophy psychoanalysis revolution Italian Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:03:14 +0000 Francesca Coin 130 at http://th-rough.eu Marx fuori dall'accademia. Ovvero: ciò che ritorna http://th-rough.eu/writers/assennato-ita/marx-fuori-dallaccademia-ovvero-ci%C3%B2-che-ritorna <span class='print-link'></span><p> <em>Marco Assennato, Loriana Cavaleri, Salvatore Cavaleri, Giovanni Di Benedetto, Sandro Gul&igrave;, Marcella Maisano</em></p> <p class="rtejustify"> <br /> <strong>Intro:</strong> leggere Marx, si poteva, all&rsquo;alba degli anni 2000, solo fuori dall&rsquo;accademia. Questo posizionamento per&ograve;, lungi dal restare un fatto meramente topologico, ha assunto il carattere del dispositivo ottico. Una idea del fare teoria, nutrirsi, socializzare sapere, lontana anni luce dall&rsquo;indugio filologico, pienamente indifferente alle filiazioni, alle famiglie teoriche, capace di giustificare i passaggi concettuali semplicemente in forza dell&rsquo;urgenza del presente. Marx era per noi un autore qualsiasi, nulla di sacro in lui. Niente di indiscutibile. Cos&igrave; un collettivo divertito rivolgeva il suo &ldquo;Goodbye&rdquo; ai padri politici, proprio riprendendosi il classico.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/assennato-ita/marx-fuori-dallaccademia-ovvero-ci%C3%B2-che-ritorna" target="_blank">read more</a></p> assennato-ita Marx philosophy Italian Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:31:29 +0000 Marco Assennato 124 at http://th-rough.eu