In-der-Blog-sein

Culture Industry on The Ister.

I have some problems with listening to philosophers improvising – Bernard Stiegler, for instance, recaps much of Technics and Time I: The Fault of Epimetheus in talk that is far less snappy than his prose – but on the other hand, it's worth it to hear the occasional squawks of his little girl in the background & see the opening and shutting of kitchen cabinets behind his work table.

Lacoue-Labarthe is quite rivetting, even beyond the painful game of wondering when exactly he's going to light the cigarette he keeps gesticulating with.

I've noticed that video humanizes philosophers. Instead of merely reading a text, one gets a representation of the person that one can feel sympathetic or antipathic towards. That impression remains, later affecting me when I return to a text. Heidegger appears to have been of two opinions on this. On the one hand he felt that a philosopher's biography was insignificant and should have no part in philosophy. On the other, he said that philosophy must be a living questioning.  ¶ 7:50 AM