….it gets worse with Christian philosophy. the positing of immanence remains pure philosophical instituting, but at the same time it is tolerated only in very small doses; it is strictly controlled and enframed by the demands of an emanative and, above all, creative transcendence. Putting their work and sometimes their lives at risk, all…
The non-philosophical is perhaps closer to the heart of philosophy than philosophy itself, and this means that philosophy cannot be content to be understood only philosophically or conceptually, but is addressed essentially to non-philosophers as well. Both the creation of concepts and the instituting of a plane of immanence are required, like two wings…
Like many who I have spoken with since the presidential election of November of 2016, I remain puzzled and dismayed that this ignorant bombastic individual received enough votes to win The White House for four years. The media rationale as well as “reasons” given by acquaintances for supporting Trump seem surreal, like ideas transmitted…
Yesterday I spent the afternoon sorting through boxes of archived files, –class notes from college and grad school, articles on business that I had saved for a second reading that never happened, and family related materials. It was an archeological dig into the past of selves that became the person that I now am….
This morning I received a short, two lines of email from a friend. He commented that he was “somewhat troubled by the Presidents apparent lack of humility.” I composed a brief reply which I sent to him privately without including the rest of the group of recipients. Each of us is an individual caught…
Aesthetics is the science dedicated to the study of the contact between the derma (the skin, the sensitive surface of our body-mind) and different chemical, physical, electromagnetic, electronic, and informational flows. ….the universe is a continuum of diverse and interrelated entities in bodily contact with each other. It is both an organic and inorganic…
Social solidarity is not an ethical or ideological value: It depends on the continuousness of the relation between individuals in time and in space. The material foundation of solidarity is the perception of the continuation of the body in the body, and the immediate understanding of my interest and your interest. —Franco “Bifo” Berardi…
Now I get it. With everyone else I was agitated, on edge at the thought that our President would confront the dictator of North Korea with an ill-considered demand that he immediately give up his nukes. No doubt that would have ended badly for everyone, especially for those in the area, South Korea and…
Enterprises are no longer linked to a territory and the work process is no longer based on a community of workers, living together in a factory day after day, but instead takes the form of an ever-changing recombination of time fragments connected in the global network. Cognitive workers do not meet in the same…
The financial class that dominates the contemporary scene has neither attachments to territory nor to material production, because its power and wealth are founded on the total abstraction of a digitally multiplied finance. This digital-financial hyper-abstraction is liquidating both the living body of the planet and the social body. —-Franco “Bifo” Berardi excerpt The…
