Geneva
I’m not done reading Rights of Man yet but here’s what I have so far. I’m appreciating all the one-liners (page references are according to the Adelaide ebook). “What Athens was in miniature America will be in magnitude.” (140) “Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” (99) “…as there is […] Continue reading →
Rewriting the Soul
Rewriting the Soul As Hacking deals with multiple personalities in Rewriting the Soul, do people have multiple personalities? People do act differently in different situations and towards different people but isn’t it one of the ways people trying to socialize? … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Squeeeeeeeee
Because I can’t come up with a good title, but also because this book (what little of it I’ve read, but ascertaining from what I’ve read of it) is sort of everything I’m coming to love about philosophy i.e. goofy mental wanking combined with methodological rigour to create something genuinely insightful. What’s interesting is that […] Continue reading →
Hacking x Mysticism x History of Science
Sorry for the late post, still working on my essay rewrite, which has proved to be more challenging than I originally thought it would be. Nice to see how certain techniques and stylistic features of the non-fiction works we’ve been … Continue reading → Continue reading →
some ideas on ‘multiples’
The first few times Hacking used the term ‘multiples’, I legitimately thought he was referring to twins/triplets. Hopefully that’s an indication of my brain state this weekend. I will fully admit that I haven’t finished this book (I’m on page 112!) for a few reasons. I’ve been fighting off a nasty cold, and to be […] Continue reading →
Glitter
I’m beginning to believe the hardest part of any book is the last ten pages. One of the most important issues that the book raised (for me), was the question – if you’re treating somebody with multiple personality disorder, who exactly are you treating? Who/which personalities are called alters? Which, now that I’ve typed it […] Continue reading →
define me
Apologies for the lateness! Sexuality is a fickle thing. Honestly, I’ve got a blog on tumblr and I see daily posts speaking of sexuality, cisgendered and transgendered people, rights and needs for proper health care and the end of discrimination – the list goes on and it never goes away. Society has changed so much […] Continue reading →
I’m confused
As with most weeks, I read Charlotte’s blog post before I wrote mine and I agree with everything she said. Big surprise. I also saw a lot of things that echoed Trouillot and Freud (the latter more obviously, as his name is mentioned in the text), which was interesting. I also liked Trouillot, and yet […] Continue reading →
Foucault x Relations x Lists
Going to skip pleasantries and preambles this time around, hope no one takes offence. Perhaps not the most central to the text, I’d like to suggest that Foucault’s History of Sexality vol. 1 aims to cast power as essentially a matter of … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Gathered up
I put off this post because I haven’t found anything to say about the book. Well, I guess I can start with Freud. “Examine diligently, therefore, all the faculties of your soul: memory, understanding, and will. Examine with precision all your senses as well. . . . Examine, moreover, all your thoughts, every word you […] Continue reading →