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Brandon
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Just absolutely incomprehensible. It's so sad because he's clearly capable of writing in human, just chooses to cloak it in the most extremely arcane language and nebulous jargon. I'll post a quote here someday just to show some of the sentences. They are fucking insane.
— Apr 10, 2025 07:51PM
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Brandon
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The hardest 15 pages or so of anything ever. He covers a philosopher named Badiou in this chapter, and by god both of their indecipherable writing styles converged to birth a monstrous, torturous chore. It was interesting, sure, if I understood any of it properly.
— Mar 23, 2025 09:07PM
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Brandon
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Quentin Meillassoux attempts to undermine Kant by subordinating the real to what is logical and mathematical. In effect, he insists that rather than skepticism about our sensory inputs, we directly access the “objective” world in-itself through math, science, and logic. Even if true, doing math, science, and logic is a phenomenal experience. Skepticism is inescapable, basically. Ugh.
— Mar 16, 2025 02:54PM
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Brandon
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This might be the hardest thing I have ever read. Some of that is due to Brassier’s varying clarity and level of explanation, but also because these concepts and arguments are so difficult and subtle. Regardless, the last few pages on Hume and Kant were absolutely fascinating. I really want to read After Finitude now, even though it seems like I may end up disagreeing with it, if I even understand any of it..
— Mar 13, 2025 01:01PM
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Brandon
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Very difficult so far, but he gave such an interesting critique of Heidegger-inspired phenomenology that was very cool to read.
— Mar 08, 2025 01:42PM
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Brandon
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Philosophers can be savage asf sometimes. Goddang.
— Mar 07, 2025 11:31AM
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