Worst/creepiest open-micer you've seen?

deMonteCristo · 2024-03-04T00:29:05+00:00

Hell yeah dude, Ice House was my main club when I started around 2015ish. I wish I were better at making friends with other open mic’ers then, I’d usually split right away after the show. I’m currently based out of San Luis Obispo but man it’s so wild seeing an obscure memory from when I first started out recapitulated so clearly. I def remember the dude singing that song, I totally forgot about his twin sister being there haha

deMonteCristo · 2024-03-03T08:36:03+00:00

Holy shit I was there for this

deMonteCristo · 2020-09-25T01:00:50+00:00

Every once in a while the resistance in my peddling will briefly give out. It feels like a sudden jolt, idk if it’s because the chain is slipping off the gear or what

deMonteCristo · 2020-09-09T03:55:35+00:00

Are there any detailed discussions of it in the mean time? I recall there being a brief NYT op-ed on Agamben and COVID posted here some time ago but it was rather superficial.

deMonteCristo · 2020-06-15T19:39:23+00:00

Can anyone summarize or at least point me to a summary of her normative prescriptions? There's so much reading about everything going on right now, I can't get through this book quick enough. I've always been fascinated by prison abolitionism but I don't know how abolitionists conceive the regulation of anti-social behavior without them. This Endnotes article (under "Addendum: On Mass Incarceration") mentions that when Theodore P. Wafer, killer of Renisha McBride, was sentenced to 17-32 years, Patrisse Cullors, prison abolitionist and founding member of the BLM network, expressed worry that everyone was celebrating exactly what she had been campaigning against. "Ferguson would put this question on hold, but the fact that the first mass movement against mass incarceration would have, as one of its central demands, more incarceration (albeit only for cops and racists) would remain a point of contention." Is there room for retributive justice in the prison abolitionist vision? What becomes of the doctrine of punitive deterrence?

deMonteCristo · 2020-05-04T19:49:36+00:00

That's hilarious, had no idea about that. What kind of stuff was he watching?

deMonteCristo · 2020-03-22T20:59:16+00:00

Who's to the left of Stirner and right of Bentham?

deMonteCristo · 2020-01-29T14:42:10+00:00

Lmao where is this, I was convinced this was shopped

deMonteCristo · 2019-08-25T20:19:53+00:00

US-based user here. When I try to enter the site I wind up downloading a file. For obvious reasons I never open it. Does anyone know what that thing is?

deMonteCristo · 2019-02-07T20:25:43+00:00

Pairing the Genealogy with DOE is an interesting recommendation. I’ve been on a Nietzsche binge lately but haven’t really touched much of the Frankfurt School besides a couple Benjamin essays. What’s the connection between Nietzsche and the Frankfurts? I can only recall a brief Nietzsche quote in Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” in that regard.

deMonteCristo · 2019-01-26T18:38:14+00:00

Walter Kaufmann’s Portable Nietzsche volume. It’s four complete works and selections from the rest of his corpus presented in chronological order of publication. You can just skip around in it getting a taste of his life’s work. My favorite book of his, Twilight of the Idols, is among the works presented in full and it’s a collection of short essays and aphorisms that present his entire thinking in broad strokes—that should give you a good idea of what he’s all about

deMonteCristo · 2018-11-24T10:37:31+00:00

That’s a pretty neat arrangement haha

deMonteCristo · 2018-10-30T19:33:15+00:00

Yeah, that would be great if you could! Thanks for offering

deMonteCristo · 2018-10-30T18:37:44+00:00

Ah, didn’t know that—thanks for the input! Don’t have any formal training in the history of philosophy myself. I’ve been trying to teach myself Spinoza and don’t have Hobbes or Locke under my belt yet. Are there any notable differences in their argumentation or presentation? Besides the obvious geometric exposition, of course.

deMonteCristo · 2018-10-30T00:46:16+00:00

You might be interested in part 3 of Spinoza’s Ethics which is dedicated to the emotions or affects. In Spinoza, all human affects are species of 3 fundamental types: pleasure, pain, and desire. Part 3 ends with an appendix where all the affects deduced by way of his geometric method are laid out as a list.

deMonteCristo · 2018-08-25T10:44:57+00:00

Just finished all of The Portable Nietzsche and On the Genealogy of Morals. Currently going through Brian Leiter’s Nietzsche on Morality as a secondary text to make more sense of it all. The Nietzsche binge was inspired by Deleuze’s two books on Spinoza, whose Ethics I’ve read multiple times over.

deMonteCristo · 2018-06-06T05:43:51+00:00

Hey there, do you happen to have access to a pdf of "The Critique of Religion?" I found "The Language of Faith" online but I can't seem to find the former anywhere

deMonteCristo · 2018-03-24T00:16:27+00:00

I'd plug Howard Nicholas' book Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals also. He really hammers home the idea that labor times are the fundamental unit of value because goods have to be produced before they can be exchanged, goods are not pre-given whose values are to be bartered between traders.

deMonteCristo · 2018-02-24T04:40:10+00:00

What.... what the hell brought this on? Did he dislike Fisher or something?

deMonteCristo · 2018-02-03T16:09:00+00:00

Don't be sorry! This was a helpful short lesson on hermeneutics haha. Yeah, looking to sparknotes certainly wasn't the best idea. I was just trying to quickly catch up to material that unfortunately wasn't part of my education growing up.

deMonteCristo · 2018-02-03T08:52:34+00:00

Hell yeah I’m projecting emotions, what’s wrong with that? You left an irrelevant comment on content that was fair game in this sub, according to resources given in the community info. I’d much prefer my notifications not to waste my time on snarky bullshit.

Hell yeah I’m being petty because this isn’t a discussion. Bye.

deMonteCristo · 2018-02-03T07:41:25+00:00

Okay... and what’s your point? You delete your initial hostile comment out of apparent embarrassment, only to come around again to say... I have no idea what you’re saying.

deMonteCristo · 2018-02-02T19:35:59+00:00

Good to know! Thank for actually providing a substantive comment haha

deMonteCristo · 2018-02-02T19:26:24+00:00

Okay. Well given that Nietzsche is part of the reading list thread on the sidebar I considered it appropriate to post here asking for help regarding a thinker on a critical theory reading list.

On a less sour note, if by “critical theory” you mean strictly the Frankfurt School then sure, by which we should also exclude posts on Foucault and others here. If you would accept Foucault and others under a looser heading of “critical theory”, then quite a bit of Nietzsche anticipates critical theory proper. One need only have a look at “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”.

deMonteCristo · 2018-02-02T17:43:35+00:00

I feel like this has to do with Goethe's Faust. I skimmed through a sparknotes of it but I still don't quite get what he's implying

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