Who are your favourite philosophers?

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This fella is taught in schools in Japan. Totally overlooked in the Anglosphere

I was searching for mentions of him on here the other night and kept finding you saying this throughout the years.

 

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He also popped up as an epigraph to one of Craner's eurocult essays:

All sensation is already memory.
Henri Bergson

The Eurocult Film Thread

Yes, you should! It's not easy to find, though. I know you don't live in the UK, but I got hold of this version, which is the best available, I gather. It was on my wish list for years, and then one day I saw it being sold for £15, figured I'd never see it that cheap ever again and pounced. It's...

dissensus.com

 

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Is Joyce a fan?

I've never looked into it, but looking now he apparently bought a copy of Creative Evolution on 13 December 1913.

On this day…13 December – THE JAMES JOYCE CENTRE

 

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On Ulysses: Bergson and Memory Representation

How Joyce represents consciousness.

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British Library

www.bl.uk

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

I was searching for mentions of him on here the other night and kept finding you saying this throughout the years.

Yes, I repeat myself a lot. Probably actual brain damage from my moshing and hard drinking days.

 

[luka]

This fella is taught in schools in Japan. Totally overlooked in the Anglosphere

central to Wyndham Lewis in a negative way.

 

[luka]

Full text of "Wyndham Lewis - Time and Western Man Book 1"

 

[catalog]

You know I really want to read Lewis, but has to be physical book

 

[constant escape]

Has anyone read Gurdjieff?

 

[luka]

not me. looks turgid.

 

[constant escape]

He has quite an all-star team of acolytes, according to Wiki. Plus the book of his I have, Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson, is the thickest book I've seen. And right off the bat there's a note that instructs the reader to read it three times in order to digest it properly.

 

[luka]

i cant read any of that sort of thing. dont understand it plus its boring.

 

[constant escape]

Yeah I'm tentative, to say the least. That could be multiple years spent on that book.

That said, his program is supposed to be rigorous. Where the fakir is oriented around the body, the yogi around the mind/intellect, the monk around feelings - the shaman is the fourth way, the balance of the three. At least that is the low resolution perspective I have.

 

[shiels]

Luka is a shaman you know.

 

[luka]

that's true. what is unusal about me is the way i balance all 3.

 

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I've noticed I've the same issue with philosophers I do with footballers. If they have a boring, Anglo sounding name I'm more likely to underrate them.

 

[constant escape]

Plus there's the enneagram which is associated to Gurdjieff Not sure if he was the primary elaborator, or if it was handed down to him, but its very similar to the Yeats wheel @luka just brought up in the Ismopticon thread.

 

[luka]

shiels is going to be a shaman too very soon. hes 3 acid trips away. then he will have crossed the line.

 

[luka]

I've noticed I've the same issue with philosophers I do with footballers. If they have a boring, Anglo sounding name I'm more likely to underrate them.

remember Sam Alladyce saying everyone would call him a tactical genius if his name was Sam Alladici?

 

[constant escape]

I've noticed I've the same issue with philosophers I do with footballers. If they have a boring, Anglo sounding name I'm more likely to underrate them.

I know what you mean. For me, Gurdjieff is just such a intriguing name to begin with. So is Deleuze.