Structuring contradictions in thought have been offered up to replace structuring repression. Concepts convey meaning in their relation or relative positioning with respect to one another. In this way is the immateriality of the concept made discernible, through the creation of friction that is obtained by placing at right angles contradictory propositions. This friction can […]

It would be considered an absurdity to leave it to practical law to divide up capital equally. Yet jouissance is divided up in this manner as a way to administer death in increments, as a way to ward off and manage the catastrophic kind that would kill you all at once.One of the results of […]

Limiting conditions describe what is permissible at any given time and must not be overstepped, according to Kant.Hannah Arendt cited this clear proscription by Kant against the fulfillment of an ideal without which proscription we would have a liquidation of the past and, consequently, meaninglessness. Less clear is whether Kant left unaddressed or rather failed […]

Contemporary commentators still are enamored with the yogic aspiration for equanimity of mind, one that maintains a distance from ground supports considered necessary to the exercise of practical authority.This is what Kant’s lengthy treatise on taste could be reduced to, if by taste he meant chiefly the ability to discern why this content and not […]

To be able to divine in one glance, as Tocqueville was famed to do, how human affairs are changed in scale, pace, and pattern as a consequence of technological innovation – this is said to be what defines social and political navigation. One can even ‘unveil’ the thought (or rather prescribe the direction of its […]