Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Zizek & Capitalism, A Zero-Books Critique

...on putting the 'Efficient Cause' of Commodities BACK into your Commodity fetish

...and mediating "social-relations" without the need for labour produced commodities

I can't wait for the approaching Technological Singularity, can you?

...and observe its' impact on labourless social-relations.

Pokemon-Go World, Here we Come!

Ovo, we barely know ye

Anyone got an Assembly Theory?

...but then this is all still pretty foamy... and probably needs a few more holons (self-organizing holarchic open (SOHO) systems*)!

*One better suited to being less hierarchically produced/ controlled (perhaps by a very large "middle" bourgeois-like citizen replacement class)

Funny how Star Trek still requires a rank hierarchy system... kinda like War Communism.

Monday, January 6, 2025

What's Your Part in All This?

Holons vs Bodies Without Organs

Madhyamika Buddhiism and Śūnyatā (Emptiness)

From Wikipedia:

Aristotle's four causes are a way to answer "why" questions about something that exists or changes in nature:
Material cause: The material from which something is made
Formal cause: The structure or design of something
Efficient cause: The primary starting point for change or rest
Final cause: The end or goal of something
Aristotle believed that these four causes could be used to analyze both artificial and natural things. For example, a table's causes are:
Material: Made of wood
Formal: Designed with four legs of equal length
Efficient: Made by a carpenter
Final: Intended to support objects
Aristotle believed that his four causes were a general analytical scheme that could be applied to a wide range of situations. He believed that his predecessors lacked a complete understanding of causality and that their investigations were not entirely successful.

Responding to Marie-Louise von Franz's Concerns

...and Emptiness Matters as an explanation for Karl Marx's Commodity Fetishism under the "System of Capitalism" (consumer blindness to the commodities "efficient cause" and making it the focus).

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Memories... like the Corners of my Mind...

Remembering LISA!

Push Me Pull Yu's

Learning how to push with a rope.

Saturday, January 4, 2025

"I see," said the blind man.

Justified True Belief (JTB) vs. the Gettier Case...

Maybe it's all just Right Opinion (Plato, "Meno"). The road to Larissa is long and arduous.

pseudo Rene Magritte, "Mirror Face Doves Hat Reproduction"

Rene Magritte, "The Therapist" (1937)

inspired by Plato's "Theaetetus"?

Plato, "Theaetetus"

SOCRATES: You have heard the common explanation of the verb 'to know'?

THEAETETUS: I think so, but I do not remember it at the moment.

SOCRATES: They explain the word 'to know' as meaning 'to have knowledge.'

THEAETETUS: True.

SOCRATES: I should like to make a slight change, and say 'to possess' knowledge.

THEAETETUS: How do the two expressions differ?

SOCRATES: Perhaps there may be no difference; but still I should like you to hear my view, that you may help me to test it.

THEAETETUS: I will, if I can.

SOCRATES: I should distinguish 'having' from 'possessing': for example, a man may buy and keep under his control a garment which he does not wear; and then we should say, not that he has, but that he possesses the garment.

THEAETETUS: It would be the correct expression.

SOCRATES: Well, may not a man 'possess' and yet not 'have' knowledge in the sense of which I am speaking? As you may suppose a man to have caught wild birds—doves or any other birds—and to be keeping them in an aviary which he has constructed at home; we might say of him in one sense, that he always has them because he possesses them, might we not?

THEAETETUS: Yes.

SOCRATES: And yet, in another sense, he has none of them; but they are in his power, and he has got them under his hand in an enclosure of his own, and can take and have them whenever he likes;—he can catch any which he likes, and let the bird go again, and he may do so as often as he pleases.

THEAETETUS: True.

SOCRATES: Once more, then, as in what preceded we made a sort of waxen figment in the mind, so let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds—some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere.

THEAETETUS: Let us imagine such an aviary—and what is to follow?

SOCRATES: We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know.

THEAETETUS: Granted.