The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change - Randal Collins

• The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change - Randal Collins - Google Libros
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The abstraction/reflexivity sequence can grow from any materials on which intellectuals focus attention. Philosophy has diverse starting points: issues of ritual propriety in ancient China, cosmological myths in India and Greece, theological disputes in early Islam. Philosophical abstraction shifts attention from the original questions and transform them into other matters. Higher or "pure" philosophy emerges as a focus on abstraction and reflexivity in their own right. Techniques arising as tools ancillary to disputes become ends  in themselves. Sub-topics become specialized branches of attention.

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Políticas del Arte: Arte contemporáneo y la Transición a la Post-democracia | e-flux

• Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy | e-flux
  Reflexión sarcástica y bien escrita sobre el sublime mundo del arte que no cuenta (y debería contar y contarse).
  tags: art politics contemporary transition
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    • "La materia negra invisible"
    • El trabajo no pagado y la explotación son los instrumentos que mantienen en auge al sector cultural.
  • Free labor and rampant exploitation are the invisible dark matter that keeps the cultural sector going.
  • global lumpenfreelancers, deterritorialized and ideologically free-floating: a reserve army of imagination communicating via Google Translate
    • La masa trabajadora del arte contemporáneo son un lumpenproletariado global flotando: un ejército de reserva que se comunica con google translate.
  • I do think that political artists could become more relevant if they were to confront these issues instead of safely parade as Stalinist realists, CNN situationists, or Jamie-Oliver-meets-probation-officer social engineers.
    • Si por lo menos los artistas evitáramos ser realistas estalinistas, situcionistas de la CNN y otras trapalladas...
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    • Artículo muy provocador, divertido e inteligente sobre lo no pensado desde el punto de vista político en el mundo archimundano del arte contemporáneo.

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Philosophy And Rhetoric In Dialogue: Redrawing Their Intellectual Landscape - Gerard A. Hauser - Google Libros

• Philosophy And Rhetoric In Dialogue: Redrawing Their Intellectual Landscape - Gerard A. Hauser - Google Libros
  tags: Zizek philosophy rhetoric
  
  

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