Fri Intellektuell believes that Deleuze & Guattari, in their Anti-Oedipus, used perverted and sensationally irreverent language in order to intentionally make themselves a bit ridiculous. Having made themselves ridiculous thusly, they do not have to appear ridiculous in their pretention when the scope of their ambition in the book becomes clear. One doesn’t become ridiculous […]
Recently, I’ve become more and more aware of the limitations of conscious thought and formal models of entities and systems. We don’t understand how political systems make decisions, how world events occur, or even how we choose what to wear on any particular day. Cause and effect doesn’t exist in the form it is commonly […]
Most beings around us that we recognise as beings, that we have concepts and names for, have a degree of variability in their existence. For example, a piece of paper remains a piece of paper even though it is folded or something is written on it. A man remains a man even if he takes […]
How is the genesis of truly new forms possible? Classical scientific thinking would have us believe that the principle of cause and effect explains the world. Thus I’m led to follow the trail of potential causes when I look for the reasons behind the emergence of something. Why did the wheat grow taller in one […]
Countries like Japan thrive on barriers to information flow. It is hard to overstate how deep and wide the rift caused by linguistic differences between Japanese and Indo-European languages is. The number of people who speak both very good English/German/French etc and very good Japanese is small and unlikely to grow dramatically. Yet there is […]