Habit of Philosophy

@HabitOfPhilosophy
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No answers, misplaced theories, reflections, fragments and texts

From fractured cogito to topological model of subjectivity. What you call 'I' is an emergent, ever changing and ever challenged pattern of traveling intensities.

https://medium.com/deterritorialization/the-passive-subject-time-synthesis-and-the-undoing-of-the-cogito-36dc66b65673

#deleuze #continentalPhilosophy #subjectivity #psycjoanalysis #ontology

​The Passive Subject - deterritorialization - Medium

Modern philosophy begins with the conceptualization of the thinking subject, the famous Cartesian cogito. But in the hands of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the self-assured voice of the…

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The ego doesn't begin. It binds.
Time doesn't pass. It loops.
Repetition isn't failure. It's structure.

New piece on Deleuze, Freud and the strange mechanics of the self: The Passive Subject

https://medium.com/@habitofphilosophy/the-passive-subject-time-synthesis-and-the-undoing-of-the-cogito-36dc66b65673

#philosophy #deleuze #freud #subjectivity #self

​The Passive Subject - Habit of Philosophy - Medium

Modern philosophy begins with a thinking subject. But in Deleuze’s hands, the self-assured voice of the cogito fractures. This essay explores how Deleuze, drawing on Kant and Freud, dismantles the…

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Contemporary science dismantles the idea of stable self - yet the fires of identity rage with increasing violence. We cling to ghosts as they haunt us. Illusions can inflict real pain.

Swallowed by Difference on Medium:
https://medium.com/@habitofphilosophy/swallowed-by-difference-fed238737b81

#philosophy #deleuze #identity #self #Medium

​Swallowed by Difference: - Habit of Philosophy - Medium

Deleuze famously describes repetition as a difference without a concept. But how are we to understand this? The point is not merely that difference marks one thing as distinct from another, but that…

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"Fascism is not just the political project of an elite but the mobilization of repressed contradictions within the average person"

In my Medium piece I revisit Wilhelm Reich's analysis of Fascism to understand today's resurgence of authoritarianism in the West.

https://medium.com/@habitofphilosophy/wilhelm-reich-and-the-mass-psychology-of-fascism-4de2eee995cd

#WilhelmReich #fascism #MassPsychology #politics

Wilhelm Reich and the Mass Psychology of Fascism - Habit of Philosophy - Medium

In light of the later political developments in the West — particularly in the United States and across Europe — there has been a growing interest in and fear of the possible resurgence of fascism…

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