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That said, I would be the first to shoot up philosophy
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Joined January 2021
Garbage from people who have internalized their oppression, must be another day ending in -y
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"Just oppress your kids, they'll be thankful later"
all my life i've been told that i'm naturally gifted at math because i'm chinese. straight A student. math major at ucla. but here's what people don't know: when i was in 8th grade, i got a B+ in geometry. my dad said "that's unacceptable", bought a geometry textbook, and
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Hey, so does anyone know an AI service that translates OCR'ed PDFs? Trying to read Gueroult π
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Andrea Long Chu, vindicated as always:
Now that I have to write an entire thesis of Spinoza...I'm starting to like reading Spinoza less. Why am I like this? Do you think by the end of it I will end up hating Spinoza? And it feels like I can no longer engage with difficult philosophical works. Why?
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Results of studying Spinoza again: 1) Asking my cat "who is a finite mode of God? You are!" 2) Nothing else.
Now that I have to write an entire thesis of Spinoza...I'm starting to like reading Spinoza less. Why am I like this? Do you think by the end of it I will end up hating Spinoza? And it feels like I can no longer engage with difficult philosophical works. Why?
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What do you think @stokhastik? And @philosopher70 I would really appreciate your advice on this!
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Like, my mental capacities are wasted on work that no one asked for. Except this is the problem: I can't work on something and enjoy it when someone *does* ask for it. It's a serious problem with executive function. I don't want to be miserable my whole life if I choose academia.
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This is a serious question and I would like my oomfs to answer it. I feel like discipline ruins everything but...without the academic context and educational rigor, I will not amount to anything. My analyst keeps saying my condition is one of "intellectual bleeding out".
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See, this is why I rail against discipline and academia. But the thing is--and this is important--what I've been doing so far doesn't work, and it doesn't lead to results--publishable or otherwise. Am I condemned to either be productive and miserable, or happy and a failure?
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Now that I have to write an entire thesis of Spinoza...I'm starting to like reading Spinoza less. Why am I like this? Do you think by the end of it I will end up hating Spinoza? And it feels like I can no longer engage with difficult philosophical works. Why?
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The cold, hard reality is that testosterone will take away their hairlines before too long π (and estrogen is the only thing that could reliably stop that!)
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How is this not a scam? What are you paying this outrageous amount of money for??
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