Deleuze and Buzzfeed

[Tetro Kornbluth]

The Internet makes so sense now from this perspective

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The signs, the signifiers... my brain hurts!

[anvi]

Nice.  I haven't read that much of Deleuze.  But, during his career, he wrote some small monographs explaining the thought of a number of important philosophers in history, and the one I've been reading is his short book on all of Kant's three Critiques.  Deleuze's exposition is excellent and insightful, and is pretty much the clearest presentation of Kant I've ever read.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Update: The founder responds

[traininthedistance]

This is the best thread.

[Meursault]

One of my favorite arguments for the relativd decline of the Judeo-Christian ethos is tied into the Deluzean concept of identity.

Christianity teaches the existence of a single, eternal, immutable soul, the source of all identity. It must conceive the individual in this way, to create an agency responsible for sin, tethered to it like Theseus in the labyrinth, and so in need of perpetual forgiveness from God.

Increasingly, late capitalism undermines this kind of agency by allowing for the kinds of alternative identities mentioned in the OP. And so 'liberalism' isn't to be blamed for the loosening of the shackles of Abrahamic monotheism, but rather a change in our own self-conceptions.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And so 'liberalism' isn't to be blamed for the loosening of the shackles of Abrahamic monotheism, but rather a change in our own self-conceptions.

Yes, I think that's fairly clear, but the idea that that's not to at least some extent effected (and yes that is the spelling I intend) by 'liberalism' is disingenuous.

You seem to think that the resulting nature or, rather, natures of identity impose fewer or less onerous 'shackles' than those that prevail in the 'Abrahamic monotheism' that you're not quite treating as monolithic but only just. It doesn't surprise me that you think that.

[Meursault]

And as a capitalist conservative, you suppnrt the very market forces that uproot the Christian self-conception of man as a self-contained unit of agency, guilty for all time for the sin of the Father.

This is the meaning of "all that is solid melts into air". And you have done it to yourself.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And as a capitalist conservative, you suppnrt the very market forces that uproot the Christian self-conception of man as a self-contained unit of agency, guilty for all time for the sin of the Father.

This is the meaning of "all that is solid melts into air". And you have done it to yourself.

I'm not a capitalist conservative, Einzige.