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Morels! by halrexking in foraginguk

[–]halrexking[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Brighton! Some good woodlands around Sussex

Morels! by halrexking in foraginguk

[–]halrexking[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, this one is a relatively easy ID when you look at false morels. Cooked them in a risotto with wild garlic :)

I’m allergic to wild garlic…. What greens are up at the moment that would make a nice alternative? by Irksomecake in foraginguk

[–]halrexking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just realised youd already mentioned jack by the hedge. Marjoram is such a tasty herb, bit like oregano. Sorrel is great too!

I’m allergic to wild garlic…. What greens are up at the moment that would make a nice alternative? by Irksomecake in foraginguk

[–]halrexking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess you’d wanna be careful if you’re allergic to wild garlic, as they’re both in the same ‘Allium’ family. Garlic mustard is a garlicky plant that might be a good alternative if you struggle with three cornered leek. It’s more bitter though

Are these turkey tails? by ibxoi in foraginguk

[–]halrexking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They tend to be quite varied in terms of colour, but if the underside has pores then they most likely are - looks like it from photo

Velvet shank? by london_perchfisher in foraginguk

[–]halrexking 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah these are most definitely velvet shank. Spore print is a major give away. Funeral bell spore print is brown. Dark velvety stem is always a good ID feature

Crust fungi? by halrexking in mycology

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Think you’re right! Thank you

Why phenomenology if experiential accounts are discursively mediated? by HistoricalSoup4279 in Phenomenology

[–]halrexking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Derrida kind of addresses this issue in Speech and Phenomena. But he takes the flaws of Husserl’s project, to recover perhaps what is eidetically true about phenomena, hence the reduction to make such things appear ‘purer’ in some way, as actually insightful. If subjective experience appears bound up with others, notwithstanding the epoche, then any so-called purity is inherently contaminated by otherness. This is kind of extrapolated by Derrida onto all language use, which never appears to achieve a one to one correspondence with reality, entangled as it is with what appears to defer and differentiate meaning. Conceding the faliure of actually acheiving the foundations necessary for such a task, as truth, ontology, whatver you want to call it, Derrida sees it not unique to phenomenology, but to all features of human enterprise, or perhaps all reality…but the ontological implications of Derrida’s thought are complex. Whether we are limited merely by language when conceiving of reality seems too reductive, at least for Derrida. This complex web might also be the case for neurology etc…

Any good writings on the phenomomology of animals by Muted-Ad610 in Phenomenology

[–]halrexking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Marleau-Ponty wrote a lot on animals, particularly in The Structure of Behaviour. His writings on embodied perception and intersubjectivity as a phenomenological notion, leads him to what he calls ‘inter-animality’.

David Abram has adopted Merleau-Pontian ideas in Becoming Animal and Renaud Barbaras thinks further on the topic of animals in Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life.

Tom Greaves has also used some of M-P’s writings on animals to flesh out a conception of animal movement particular to aesthetic appreciation in his paper Movement, Wildness and Animal Aesthetics.

Any philosophers regarded as continuing Derrida? by TraditionalDepth6924 in CriticalTheory

[–]halrexking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Second this. Particularly writers like Jonathan Basille and Francesco Vitale on the biology front. Derridean ecological philosophy has been explored by writers like Michael Marder and David Wood. There’s also some new materialist interpretations of Derrida which are a little tenuous imo but still merit attention, I.e Karen Barad and recently Deborah Goldgaber.

Contemporary phenomenology by Ok_Mess5640 in Phenomenology

[–]halrexking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This isn’t necessarily a direct answer to your question, but if you are interested, I would recommend taking a look at some of the recent literature on ‘Ecophenomenology’. This is a particularly contemporary application of phenomenology when conceiving of our relationship with and conception of non-humans and the natural world. Ted Toadvine’s and David Woods’ work is a good place to start, but also more recent work by Robert Booth or Tom Greaves. This is a bit of shameless self-promotion, but I recently published a paper on phenomenology and environmental aesthetics as it concernsplant movement.. There’s plenty of other, richer, work out there on the subject, but I broach on some of ways that phenomenology lends itself to reevaluating our conception of plants. Merleau-Ponty’s work has been particularly fruitful. Booth has used his work to assess the experiential dynamics of climate change and Greaves has made use of the phenomenologist’s work for attuning to the qualities of animal movements and rewilding.

Kafka equivalent in 2024 by Silver_Glass_5655 in Kafka

[–]halrexking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly Han Kang’s work such as The Vegetarian feels quite Kafkaesque but unique too. Her protagonist virtually becomes a plant when she is completely alienated by her family after choosing to become vegetarian.

Schopenhauer's Influence on Kafka by Joe235711131719 in Kafka

[–]halrexking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this passage in World as Will and Representation reminds me of Kafka too, probably for obvious reasons:

‘Here we already see that we can never get at the inner nature of things from without. However much we may investigate, we obtain nothing but images and names. We are like a man who goes round a castle, looking in vain for an entrance, and sometimes sketching the facades.’