Category: crealectics
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Capitalism and Communism Have Merged: Don’t Take Freedom For Granted!
It may seem unexpected to suggest that freedom is a lost value. Are we not in a democracy? Are we not even, according to some conservatives, “too free” and not responsible enough? Perhaps we have been so in the second half of the twentieth century, but things have changed imperceptibly. We live in the era…
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Manifeste du Créalisme (11 years later)
The original text of the Manifesto of Crealism (2007) Luis de Miranda Manifeste du Créalisme Huit points pour un infini debout 1 Au coeur du réel agit une création continue, matérielle et spirituelle. “Le monde est/doit être ma création” est l’éthique différentielle des sujets singuliers. Vérité dont l’événement inter-relationnel ne cesse de surgir…
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Can Public Intellectuals Help Us Think? (on Jordan Peterson, Slavoj Zizek, and Co.)
“You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on and drop out You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip Skip out for beer during commercials Because the revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be televised.” Gill Scott…
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“War is Justice” (on Heraclitus)
Note for the Process-Oriented Philosophy Seminar Session of 3 May 2018 We start with this Fragment from Heraclitus. “We must know that war is common to all and strife is justice, and that all things come into being through strife necessarily.” Heraclitus, Fragment B80 We are speaking of becoming as “coming into being”. Not…
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Universalia Sunt Crealia
Reism is the doctrine that only things exist (from the Latin res, “thing”). In translation studies, realia are particular elements that cannot be translated into another language. A reist theory of aesthetics would be the assumption that an artefact can never be transferred into an emotional understanding, but at best artistic objects would be strange…
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Feeling the Flowing Present, Becoming the Becoming
Some people ask: why is my capacity to grow so related to the experience of becoming imprisoned in loops of enthusiasm followed by deception? It seems like a rollercoaster or a golden prison of over-confidence and collapse. Our capacity to grow is conditioned by the very way in which we formulate and verbalise our decisions…
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The POP Workshop | Process-Oriented Philosophy with Luis de Miranda
Who’s POP? Let’s unite theory and praxis, let’s become a hive-mind and embark on a journey of slow thinking, a rewarding voyage through the major texts of process-oriented philosophy. Free entrance, freer minds @ the Library of Noden. First date 18 April 2018 at 19h40, and then regular sessions will be held. Sickla industriväg 6, 131…
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The River of Difference: Rereading Heraclitus
Famous fragment B12 of Heraclitus has been translated has follows by Professor Jonathan Barnes, an international authority in Ancient philosophy: On those who enter the same rivers, ever different water flows. This of course can be understood as another way of saying that one cannot bathe in the same river twice. Because the river is…
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Why crealectics rather than dialectics?
The following text is not meant to be read dogmatically, but as part of a process of thought. Feel free to engage with it, comment, specify, explore, criticise. Think with me. One of the possible short definitions of dialectics, etymology-based, is: to think through. This sort of process should not imply necessarily a dualism of…
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What is Deep Thinking? A Critique of Garry Kasparov’s Book “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins”
Deep thinking is the title of a book by former chess world-champion Garry Kasparov. The subtitle is “Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins.” It may seem like a good idea to read such a book, in a time where the word “deep” is increasingly used to qualify algorithmic software, as in “deep learning”.…