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Firstly, sorry for wri...Dear Mr Mehmet Shagatay,<br /> <br /> Firstly, sorry for writing *Sh*. I do not have the initial letter of your family name.<br /> I am Hiroshi Uchida, the author of *Marx's Grundrisse and Hegel's Logic*. I have found your cite today. I came to know that you write you want to know my curriculum vitae.<br /> My email address is<br /> bqe03244@nifty.com<br /> Please send your email above.<br /> With very best wishes.<br /> Hiroshi Uchida<br /> 16th December 2011Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-68234456825468884912010-06-21T07:46:23.337+03:002010-06-21T07:46:23.337+03:00A day brightener.A day brightener.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-77263249722106443222010-04-10T14:41:53.332+03:002010-04-10T14:41:53.332+03:00Selam,
"Molly is a gossip", "Terry...Selam,<br /><br />"Molly is a gossip", "Terry has a fast car" cümlelerinin bir şeyler ifade ettiği birileri var mıdır acaba hala dünyada diye bir araştırayım derken denk geldim blog'unuza. Zevkle okudum yazınızı. Teşekkürler.<br /><br />Teoman AkbenWannagoforaridehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09256877059887543823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-39331996175552798332010-03-06T10:57:49.989+02:002010-03-06T10:57:49.989+02:00Anything that occurred before the 1948 Genocide Co...Anything that occurred before the 1948 Genocide Convention, can't be called genocide. Ask the UK government.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-34961805980528480002010-02-03T23:49:33.150+02:002010-02-03T23:49:33.150+02:00Mehmet, thank you for bringing Howard Zinn's l...Mehmet, thank you for bringing Howard Zinn's last words to my home. He was so smart and perceptive in so many ways. <br /><br />I enjoyed the interview tremendously!Nevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14695297829881237662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-49370063332136526012010-01-05T22:37:53.159+02:002010-01-05T22:37:53.159+02:00Hi,
I am The assistant editor with anxiety.n...Hi,<br /> I am The assistant editor with anxiety.net. I really liked your site and I am interested in building a relationship with your site. We want to spread public awareness. I hope you can help me out. Your site is a very useful resource.<br /><br />Please email me back with your URl in subject line to take a step ahead and to avoid spam.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Kathy<br />kathy.anxiety.net@gmail.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03004486457298209729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-30478165656346953472009-12-04T21:44:58.706+02:002009-12-04T21:44:58.706+02:00you said: "Religion emancipates people from h...you said: "Religion emancipates people from human limitations by serving as an instrument of denial."<br /><br />I have to think about this sentence a little... it reads a little like an oxymoron... <br /><br />So are you saying, religion helps us deny certain realities of the human condition therefore we use religion as an excuse?<br /><br />Sorry, I am lost.... And so sorry if I am off topic here...Nevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14695297829881237662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-23296388606085871432009-12-04T08:12:31.867+02:002009-12-04T08:12:31.867+02:00Mao had someone else write for him.
In my group, ...Mao had someone else write for him.<br /><br />In my group, we're discussing China. Now that it's industrial, it has the world's largest working class. That makes the China question important.<br /><br />Mao based his revolution on Stalinist Russia. He only nationalized the economy, because capitalists fled to Taiwan.<br /><br />I'm not against conceit, if it is backed up by deeds.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-18311264429671827002009-12-04T05:42:57.940+02:002009-12-04T05:42:57.940+02:00Hi Nevin,
I'm sorry about your daughter'...Hi Nevin, <br /><br />I'm sorry about your daughter's health problem. I read it on your blog a couple of days ago. The reason that I didn't left a comment was I couldn't think anything to say beyond the standard phrases of consolation. I hope your daughter may recover soon. <br /><br />Prevailing capitalo-democratic ideology dictates decisive distrust for people. But its distinctive characteristic resides in the well known Maoist dictum "confidence in the masses" but with a reversal which consistently put emphasis on confidence as long as masses have confidence in dominant social relations. Therefore, an individual vis-à-vis other stages a neurotic play in which symbolic exchange is interrupted by the doubt whether this or that person complies with dominant subjective positions. Just imagine a bunch of aspiring pros obsessively trying to figure out the tells of other players but have no interest in what is actually going on in a peculiar poker game. Daniel Neagranu once related his astonishment when he once came across a table of astute amateurs focused in tells but have little or no knowledge about the fundamentals of poker. This is what is happening in modern society. <br /><br />As regards to religion, I'm surprised that people generally think that religion simply functions to remind us our human conditions that we incline to forget. Actually it works in the exact opposite way. Religion emancipates people from human limitations by serving as an instrument of denial.<br /><br />Best,Memet Çagatayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840763698133544424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-44927804582998142222009-12-02T22:03:02.694+02:002009-12-02T22:03:02.694+02:00Modesty and humility is not in fashion now days. I...Modesty and humility is not in fashion now days. If one is seen practicing these virtues, one is portrayed as either stupid or gullible. <br /><br />From my personal experience, I am reminded of these two important qualities during times of difficulty such as when my child's health is in danger... Otherwise, I am as forgetful and thoughtless as the next person. :(<br /><br />I wonder how humans can be reminded of the fragility of life without the oppression of religion?Nevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14695297829881237662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-58005612239074251492009-11-15T19:59:49.536+02:002009-11-15T19:59:49.536+02:00A couple of days ago Jodi Dean uploaded a chapter ...A couple of days ago Jodi Dean uploaded a chapter from her forthcoming book to her blog:<br /><br />http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/files/chapter-3--whatever-blogging.doc... Read More<br /><br />In the couple of paragraphs where she deals with the notion of “Bartleby Politics”, first introduced by Hardt&Negri (as far as I know) and later by Zizek, which alludes to Melville’s character Bartleby, she points out the fundamental deadlock of refusing to refuse:<br /><br />“Yet even as Bartleby evades the circuit of power and resistance by refusing to refuse, he continues to rely on his position as a singular subject: he says ‘I,’ referring to himself as a subject, and not just any subject, but a subject with a view, a preference. As such, he remains exposed to power. He still cares. In response to a request, Bartleby does more than acknowledge communication, the fact that a message has been and received. His answer affirms the intelligibility of the request even as it challenges the normative expectations informing it. And, rather than challenging the sender of the message’s authority to make the request he makes, Bartleby asserts himself as what matters—he would prefer not to. He is a subject with preferences and these preferences must be attended to.”<br /><br />Within the context of her theory of “communicative capitalism”, her critique makes a perfect sense. The very successful act of refusing to participate, as long as it succeeds, verifies that the letter has arrived to its destination and we have been caught in infinite spiral of communicative network. For instance, once I said that all I want is a computer connected to the Internet and a DVD player, and to watch all the movies that I love with the woman whom I love. I want nothing more than this. But, wait a second. This is exactly the same modesty that I observed in my friends who didn’t want anything like Bartleby or want simple things as Michael K. at best. Typical story goes like this: x just wants to grow flowers or feed fish or write poetry or songs, etc. etc. But ten years later, we shockingly figure out that now our humble friend works in a Bank, shaves every morning, growing a giant belly, has long become “A Well Respected Man” and forgotten all the trivial things that he once desired. As Dean puts it, he was still in the field the jouissance of the other while he was seemingly refusing to communicate: “He still cares”.Memet Çagatayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840763698133544424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-17327067152046135652009-11-15T07:31:16.589+02:002009-11-15T07:31:16.589+02:00Did you watch Woody Allen's latest movie Whate...Did you watch Woody Allen's latest movie Whatever "terribly" Works? There he expresses his precious opinion on Marxism through the misanthropic protagonist: "These are all great ideas, but they all suffer from one fatal flaw... which is... they are all based on the fallacious notion that people are fundamentally decent". This is the exact feedback that Marxists frequently received from unsophisticated fools. How could I believe the decent core of humanity when I don't even regard myself as decent? I aspire after socialism because I've come to the conclusion that it is the only socio-economic formation that would provide a safe distance between ill-mannered people just like me. In the end, W. Allen's pseudo-misanthropic character (Allen in disguise), an enthusiastic adherent of Bartleby politics ("I would prefer not to") ends up with ultimate conformism: "Whatever Works". This is the most likely outcome of zealous cynicism.<br /><br />We should be neither naive utopians nor cynical misanthropes. But being a naive misanthrope who is ready to collaborate with others not only to confront the landowner and bring down the existing relations of production but also to get rid of his evil core, of the certain "Al" who takes a strange enjoyment from subordination to various owners may be the solution.<br /><br />You are right. although it is invisible, it doesn't work.Memet Çagatayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840763698133544424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-33434161804904835862009-11-15T04:26:49.700+02:002009-11-15T04:26:49.700+02:00The breadlines are invisible now days... not on yo...The breadlines are invisible now days... not on your face, so to speak (in the rich world) but they are there... with the health care debate in the US for example... and that is the underlining discomfort which makes it all so uncomfortable....Nevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14695297829881237662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-74655356363870648562009-09-03T08:15:35.891+03:002009-09-03T08:15:35.891+03:00An Afro American friend of mine, dislikes Woody fo...An Afro American friend of mine, dislikes Woody for never having a black character.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-21840647957470779032009-08-17T21:21:28.096+03:002009-08-17T21:21:28.096+03:00“Annie Hall” is one of my favorites too, along wit...“Annie Hall” is one of my favorites too, along with “Sleeper”, “Zelig” and “Take the Money and Run”.<br /><br />There is another great director whose main artistic occupation was also to repeat himself, from the beginning to the end, from “The New Janitor” to “A King in New York”. But distinctive quality of Chaplin's repetition vis-à-vis Woody Allen's somewhat obsessive one is in Chaplin, the recurring element (the Tramp) assumes the instrument to arrange the continuous misery of socially excluded subject in “unrepeatable experiences” (Badiou). Contrary, Allen’s obsession is not due to the recurring character but his persistence in duplicating experiences and situations.Memet Çagatayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840763698133544424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-27344427758434084552009-08-17T04:18:40.341+03:002009-08-17T04:18:40.341+03:00Mehmet, Annie Hall is one of my favorite movies......Mehmet, Annie Hall is one of my favorite movies... In fact, Wood Allen's 70's and 80's stuff were all pretty good... in my opinion, he become slightly repetitive and boring in the last 20 years.... <br /><br />Great clip!Nevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14695297829881237662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-3878542114976962082009-08-16T15:17:51.973+03:002009-08-16T15:17:51.973+03:00Nevin: Yesterday, I went out with friends for the ...Nevin: Yesterday, I went out with friends for the first time after a long period. A couple of beers encouraged me to deliver an endless and irksome oration on Badiou's ethics of Truth. I eventually managed to arrive home safe and sound. Then I recalled the famous scene from "Annie Hall":<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY</a><br /><br />I wish someone sitting at a nearby table would bring Badiou while I was delivering my speech and he told me, “You have not an idea about my philosophy or any connection with the material reality or any Truth whatsoever, please shut up your big mouth and stop bothering people. Boy, if life were only like this.<br /><br />Ren: In a press conference dated October 1974, Lacan briefly talks about the relationship between religion and psychoanalysis:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/lacan_press.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/lacan_press.pdf</a>Memet Çagatayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840763698133544424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-74748516743117265822009-08-16T09:57:15.787+03:002009-08-16T09:57:15.787+03:00Thanks for the links. Love this one:
"9. Th...Thanks for the links. Love this one:<br /><br />"9. The only maxim of contemporary art is not to be imperial. This also means: it does not have to be democratic, if democracy implies conformity with the imperial idea of political liberty."Edmond Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-41097644231292866822009-08-16T07:54:36.886+03:002009-08-16T07:54:36.886+03:00I wonder what Lacan says about Marx's religiou...I wonder what Lacan says about Marx's religious views?Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-79396036118583462262009-08-14T20:44:06.175+03:002009-08-14T20:44:06.175+03:00Your last few sentences show a lot of courage if y...Your last few sentences show a lot of courage if you ask me.... :) To understand ones weakness or neurosis makes a confidant person...<br /><br />I guess I can not find any comfort in religious "Mambo Jumbo", perhaps because, It has not really spoken to me?Nevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14695297829881237662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-48702598077294720922009-08-14T20:27:40.290+03:002009-08-14T20:27:40.290+03:00Sorry for deleting my comment.... I thought it did...Sorry for deleting my comment.... I thought it did not make much sense.... :)Nevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14695297829881237662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767691.post-37978356027680165212009-08-14T10:50:49.298+03:002009-08-14T10:50:49.298+03:00In Kurkcu’s case, far from being certain about hol...In Kurkcu’s case, far from being certain about holding the accurate politico-ideological map of Turkey, he frequently questions the theoretical and practical mistakes of socialist movements over the last couple of decades. Thus, the devotion of “faithful subject” does not reside in certainty on theoretical premises and convictions but in militant insistence on guarding the practical ground that enables us to maintain our theoretical inquiry while respecting the basic ethical imperative: “keep going!, keep going!” <br /><br />In his Ethics, Badiou briefly defines his conception of subject:<br /><br /><i>We might say, then, that a truth-process is heterogeneous to the instituted knowledges of the situation. Or - to use an expression of Lacan's - that it punches a 'hole [trouie]' in these knowledges.<br /> <br />I call 'subject' the bearer [le support] of a fidelity, the one who bears a process of truth. The subject, therefore, in no way preexists the process. He is absolutely nonexistent in the situation 'before' the event. We might say that the process of truth induces a subject.<br /><br />It is important to understand that the 'subject', thus conceived, does not overlap with the psychological subject, nor even with the reflexive subject (in Descartes's sense) or the transcendental subject (in Kant's sense). For example, the subject induced by fidelity to an amorous encounter, the subject of love, is not the 'loving' subject described by the classical moralists. For this kind of psychological subject falls within the province of human nature, within the logic of passion, whereas what I am talking about has no 'natural' pre-existence. The lovers as such enter into the composition of one loving subject, who exceeds them both.</i><br /><br />Now, let me cite young Marx before frankly answering your question whether I believe in this religious mambo jumbo or not despite I think you already know the answer: <br /><br /><i>The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism – that of Feuerbach included – is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively. Hence, in contradistinction to materialism, the active side was developed abstractly by idealism – which, of course, does not know real, sensuous activity as such.<br /><br />Feuerbach wants sensuous objects, really distinct from the thought objects, but he does not conceive human activity itself as objective activity. Hence, in The Essence of Christianity, he regards the theoretical attitude as the only genuinely human attitude, while practice is conceived and fixed only in its dirty-judaical manifestation. Hence he does not grasp the significance of “revolutionary”, of “practical-critical”, activity.</i><br /><br />My first answer is Freudian one: Of course I do not believe the “manifest content” (mambo jumbo). Sometimes even extraneous mention of God in everyday language makes me feel revolted. But I strongly want to believe its “latent though” that proper materialist stance is a saintly practical fidelity. I want to believe it because I’m just a pathetic neurotic who is incapable of a single courageous step forward anymore due to numerous overpowering anxieties. This is why I put that particular scene at the top of my post. It made me feel courageous for a moment. My second answer is a Lacanian joke: I just believe in Big Other albeit it doesn’t exist. <br /><br />Regards,Memet Çagatayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840763698133544424noreply@blogger.com