tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2406875840421844341.post2777628047076143715..comments2023-06-14T23:23:38.873+10:00Comments on The Garden of Self Defence: If you want to become better at joining the dots... read thisPermapoesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565236504537501720noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2406875840421844341.post-90885331900781422672009-05-22T15:47:51.251+10:002009-05-22T15:47:51.251+10:00thanks nk,
this would have to be the model commen...thanks nk,<br /><br />this would have to be the model comment:<br /><br />critique, humour, warmth, exchange.<br /><br />peejPermapoesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05565236504537501720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2406875840421844341.post-23982822638231657822009-05-22T14:06:10.402+10:002009-05-22T14:06:10.402+10:00hi peej,
can i say, firstly, that it's very jones...hi peej,<br /><br />can i say, firstly, that it's very jonesian to attack your own leg with a chainsaw so you can read derek jensen tear shreds off descartes in a hospital bed. i admire the commitment to embodied existence, although am also happy that you didn't lop your whole leg off. <br /><br />the jensen books sounds interesting. i have mixed feelings about descartes bashing, i have to say. on the one hand, his idiotic desire for absolute certainty which ends in a disconnected mind-in-a-vacuum scenario seems so clearly to lay the foundation for so much of the destruction that follows. but on the other hand i wonder if we aren't sometimes turning him into a straw man, an easy target, so we can pinpoint some easy-to-grasp evil within <I>our</I> culture. <br /><br />like i say, my feelings are mixed. sometimes i want to make a descartes pinyata and bash all hell out of it, other times i think he's just an eccentric dude who spent his life working on maths and science and and then one day when he was sitting by a fire in the netherlands decided to meditate on discourse, that is, try his hand at philosophy.<br /><br />our house has been going on a bruno latour and michel serres binge. i cannot recommend highly enough a couple of books: latour's <I>we have never been modern</I> and serres' <I> the natural contract</I>, the latter of which i'm pretty sure you would know.<br /><br />love to m + z + the chooks,<br />nk.kickkneeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08541609972897159612noreply@blogger.com