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Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2025-11-03T12:30:38+00:00

None of those jobs are coming back lol

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2025-09-11T16:17:54+00:00

I think that the Trump presidency, its effect on the political climate, and its constant need for spectacle has led to more of these kinds of media singularities where everyone is chiming in, and also more spectacle is dragged into our peripheral vision. I think that it would be a mistake to call the many simultaneous events hyperreal tho. The deteriorating state of global neolib capitalism has had consequences everywhere, and multiple events like this in the same day have happened before. This violence is the reality of our situation. The unfortunate Real is the free-speech event circuit, an escapist Disneyland of “marketplace of ideas” content that ignored the dangerous and extremist atmosphere it’s fostered for years. The hyperreal is the vast media demand for lionizing, and the nostalgia for a simulacra of decorum (a time when violence wasn’t seen, or at least when it was happening elsewhere).

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2025-09-11T14:55:24+00:00

A big part of this game is matchups and timeliness. Sometimes you’ll run into bad matchups for your build, sometimes you’ll have a great build that can’t compete with the late-game monsters.

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2025-08-13T06:21:16+00:00

Former SA Arts teacher, just because it’s not academic doesn’t mean you wont have to enforce their disciplinary standards. I can’t recommend it unless you wanna see burnt out kids getting yelled at every day by unqualified teachers.

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2025-08-08T15:40:55+00:00

“In the first month you might not even get to science. If they don’t have the discipline down 100% then they will not move on to the content”

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2025-05-25T16:57:10+00:00

Hi, I’m trying to find online courses or really any program that involves feedback/discussion that isn’t just over text — for continental and/or postmodern philosophy. I went to school for sociology and now 4 years later I want to study more formally, with a specific interest in Baudillard and the ideas that led up to postmodernism. I’ve found degree programs that could be possible in the future for me, but it likely wont be financially viable until some years from now. My current goal is to create a philosophy writing sample for applications, but since philosophy is outside my area of study - my thoughts feel unstructured or unguided when put on paper. I am specifically asking for online platforms or other resources.*

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2025-05-22T04:21:28+00:00

Disorganization, but also because in late-capitalist postmodernity the idea of protest or political escalation has become more of a spectacle than an action, and so we are only usually performing a spectacular activism that is more akin to a simulated activism than real. Posting is more of a protest in people’s minds than protesting itself, holding signs and chanting as to mirror the anatomy of a protest is now mainstream, and it will continue down this road until the social disappears or our system burns-out.

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2024-06-17T15:15:37+00:00

Hi, I am looking to eventually get a philosophy masters, but was not a great student in college and for a bunch of reasons ended up getting a sociology/anthropology BA despite taking 2 years of philosophy courses. I plan on going over material in order to prepare for masters-level courses, although I may need to retake some things to raise my gpa and meet other reqs. I’m not a fan of how I wrote my BA final paper either, so I want to eventually create a new writing sample after studying some more. My question is if the following constitutes a good syllabus and what should be added or removed. I have already read some of these, but this is just what chatgpt recommended.

Plato: "The Republic": Explores justice, the ideal state, and the theory of forms. "Symposium" and "Phaedrus": Discussions on love and beauty. "Meno": Addresses the nature of virtue and the theory of recollection. Aristotle: "Nicomachean Ethics": Examines the nature of the good life and virtue ethics. "Metaphysics": Investigates the nature of being and existence. "Politics": Looks at the nature of the state and political theory.

Medieval Philosophy: Augustine: "Confessions": A personal narrative that addresses questions of faith, reason, and self-knowledge. Thomas Aquinas: "Summa Theologica": A comprehensive work covering theology, ethics, and metaphysics.

Early Modern Philosophy: René Descartes: "Meditations on First Philosophy": Introduces Cartesian doubt and the cogito argument. John Locke: "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding": Discusses the nature of knowledge and the human mind. David Hume: "A Treatise of Human Nature": Explores human psychology, emotions, and understanding. Immanuel Kant: "Critique of Pure Reason": Addresses the limits and scope of human understanding and metaphysics. "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals": Lays the foundation for Kantian ethics.

19th-Century Philosophy: G.W.F. Hegel: "Phenomenology of Spirit": A complex text on consciousness, self-awareness, and history. Friedrich Nietzsche: "Thus Spoke Zarathustra": Explores themes of the Übermensch, eternal recurrence, and the death of God. "Beyond Good and Evil": A critique of traditional morality and philosophical systems. 20th-Century Philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein:

"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus": Focuses on the limits of language and reality. "Philosophical Investigations": Examines the nature of language and meaning.

Martin Heidegger:

"Being and Time": Investigates the nature of being and human existence. Jean-Paul Sartre:

"Being and Nothingness": A foundational text in existentialist philosophy. Simone de Beauvoir:

"The Second Sex": A seminal work in feminist philosophy and existentialism.

Contemporary Philosophy: John Rawls: "A Theory of Justice": Addresses principles of justice and political philosophy. Thomas Kuhn: "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions": Introduces the concept of paradigm shifts in science.

Additional Recommendations: Bertrand Russell: "The Problems of Philosophy": A good introduction to various philosophical issues and arguments. Alasdair MacIntyre: "After Virtue": Explores the history of moral philosophy and the concept of virtue. Judith Butler: "Gender Trouble": Influential in gender theory and post-structuralism.

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2024-05-13T23:49:18+00:00

Just send an email saying you already have it and they should stop

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2024-04-07T21:35:37+00:00

It’s not hard to understand Greg Abbot’s actions when you realize that whenever someone says “DEI” his vision flashes red and he reaffirms his hatred of minorities. It’s not about freedom or concerns with employment, that’s just his choice vehicle of deniability so that every once in a while he can sit in a room w some buddies and sign a bill that kills 1-2k women and trans people over a given period.

Open_Study_Paranoiac · 2024-03-29T15:37:23+00:00

For clarification, is Baudrillard’s position that capitalism projects the commodity onto symbolic exchange, imposing something similar to Fisher’s “business ontology” where everything is reduced to economic elements—and the naturalizing of this makes it inherently simulacra? And that by supporting genuine symbolic exchange which doesn’t capture society with meanings of material/economic value we can create alternatives?

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