John Matthew Allison

PhD student, Rice U. | Philosophy of religion & technology, religious pluralism, American Vajrayana, acid communism | There is no trickledown epistemology

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In honor of the passing of both #thichnhathanh and #Meatloaf within the last 24 hours, I bring you:

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@Ghost_Image_ Ah, thank you for offering! I actually have a hard copy of the book that I had been planning to read, though, so this is good to know. I read the introduction a few months ago and loved it, but haven't had a chance to work through the whole thing yet.

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Philosophy Twitter hivemind, anyone have reading suggestions for resources on the possibility of non-linguistic meaning?

Anything in analytic, continental, Buddhist — I’m open to it

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In reading itself, one unconsciously writes oneself, but in reading oneself as written, one makes possible the process whereby one may consciously rewrite oneself.

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@carl_b_sachs Some Deleuzians definitely missed this memo!

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@carl_b_sachs Kaufmannians and Deleuzians triggered

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So-called "critical" posthumanism is complicit with transhumanism. Denying human exceptionalism is a huge mistake. Humans are sociogenic. Animals and machines are not. Understanding this is the only way to adequately reject transhumanism, which is neo-eugenic and fascist.

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@krumbbumm Deleuze would totally have been enamored by the idea of camming.

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@adamkotsko I say Kamala only because her public ratings are even lower than those of Pete. But then again, as evidenced by the recent Amazon doc about him, I'm pretty sure Pete is a robot posing as a human being. So there's that.

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Mysticism based upon the body, not the mind alone, or GTFO

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In this light, the “black box” of contemporary AI signifies the culmination and yet the ironic dissolution of technoscientific certainty and intelligibility constituted through artificial means. This was posited by Steven Crowell today in class and I found it insightful. 2/2

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After Copernicus, orientation no longer comes from divine. Space is centerless. Science, as a kind of post-Cartesian attempt to work from various “artificial centers” sought to regain certainty by rendering universe intelligible via controlled experimentation. 1/2

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@carl_b_sachs Have you written on your preferred vision of Hegelian Sellarsianism as explicitly opposed to theirs?

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"[W]hat are the social democratic politics of emergency? If his version of ecological Leninism is to be refused, what is our logic of action in the face of disaster? What are our political options when there is every reason to think that we have very little time left?”

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“The defining fact about climate change is that it is ‘a revolutionary problem without a revolutionary subject’.”

https://t.co/CGNml9LXng

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@JeffreyASachs I get the sense he’s not read much by either mainstream analytics or continentalists (since he is obviously not an analytic but also is a critic of philosophies of immanence). Ethicists and people in religious studies adjacent seem to read him the most. He is brilliant.

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@peligrietzer A good example is early Hindu nationalism: started as anti-colonial but then eventually devolved into the mess that is right-wing politics in contemporary India. Seems like there is often a confusion of means with ends.

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Psychedelics need to be legalized, not medicalized for profit. This all comes down to who has a right to participate in the means of psychedelic production. The obvious answer is: all of us.

https://t.co/IEIRPFU6iE

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@HormoneHangover Honest answer is that I believe it begins with a certain use of phenomenology in race studies — that the apperception of someone as racialized is grounded in the immediate experience of that person’s body. The motif now often gets bandied around carelessly.

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@IramiOF I bet it’s the same place where CHAZ went wrong!