G_Bookner [he/him]
I mean, the amazon episode was pretty dumb, but the rest of Chibnall’s episodes were pretty good imo. “Partition of India” and “It takes you away” were pretty memorable episodes among many other good ones and I also really liked “Flux” and the idea of the timeless child finally brought something new to the table. Chibnall managed to overcome Moffat’s unnecessary labyrinths of plots as well as his misogyny while not abandoning big ideas in general.
I would’ve liked to have him continue running the show, especially after the last special by Davies, which I didn’t find that convincing.
I felt bad because I just wasn’t there or friendly, but man I can’t stand how unfair this music is and just life in general. I also hate how I’m the crazy/immature one for feeling this way.
It seems that you had good reason to dislike the concert and your critique, that I really enjoyed reading btw., reads as the opposite of being crazy or immature. I sadly don’t know much about jazz, but I think to point out how bourgeois education and its surroundings translate into musical shortcommings is an important thing to do in general.
This is not accurate. It is possible to say that Adorno and Horkheimer could have done more to get Benjamin into the US (Horkheimer did get Benjamin a visa at some point), but they didn’t leave him to die because he was friends witch Brecht (?). I also don’t really know how easy it was to get someone out of Europe during that time. Also Benjamin stayed far too long in France due to his depression and his suicide in Spain was a result of a very unfortunate miscommunication.
Yes. I don’t really know where to start criticizing it and I’m also not really interested in doing so. But for one, having read some works of most of the philosophers the author names, I don’t see the big difference between the historical view he solely assigns to Lukács and that of other philosophers like Adorno or Derrida, who repeatedly argued for recognizing the continuity of fascism in human societies. Also, the connection between the so called post-structuralists tradition and Nietzsche or Heidegger is a critical one. When Derrida draws on Heidegger or Nietzsche, this is to be understood as an engagement with the negative at work in the tradition of Western philosophy. What seems kind of strange here is that the author dismisses any dialectic at work in the philosophy he’s out to criticize, especially when he is drawing so heavily on Lukács and Hegel.
This comes off as needlessly insulting. Declaring a bunch of philosophers as Hitlerites (Adorno had to flee from the Nazis, you know, and psychoanalysis didn’t have such a good standing with them either) without elaborating and then saying someone is seething with Hitler particles (whatever that means) because they expressed a genuine interest in discussing philosophy is some weak ass shit.
A few month back I was offered a new contract at work with 50% more working hours, which I accepted. So the past few month I’ve been working according to the new contract. But because I have a ton of things to do besides working this job and because I am really bad with my finances, I didn’t notice that they never adjusted my pay. Apparently someone in the administration has misread the new number of hours I was supposed to work and they now told me that it might not be possible to pay me the missing amount of money (they didn’t say why). Instead, I will be compensated for it by having to work less in the following month.
But I do want my money and I already talked with one of my superiors about it, who told me that she once was retroactively paid for over a year of work. So it seems that the administration just doesn’t want to be bothered with suckers like me. I will know how this all turns out next week.
I’m also confused about how they blew it up. I assumed they bombed it when I read about it but it looks like they used controlled explosives to collapse the building, or am I wrong? The fact that they filmed it in this way seems to affirm that they did it with controlled explosives (at least I haven’t seen them film a bombing in this way).