Tuesday, October 29, 2013

New Wittgenstein-related blogs, etc.

There's a new Wittgenstein blog here. It looks worth following.

Although readers of this blog probably already know about them, just in case anyone missed them here are two more recent appearances in the blogosphere. The unfortunately named (for those of us who don't like raisins) A Bag of Raisins (Sean Stidd on Wittgenstein) and Thinking Film (Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read, and others on popular films as philosophy).

And Emanations (a literary project with Wittgenstein sympathies) has a new call for submissions.

6 comments:

  1. I am merely curious & might have missed something on their site, but: How do you know that Emanations has Wittgenstein sympathies (and what would define such sympathies)?

    As I say, I am merely curious. Perhaps on the behalf of others, since I would never submit to Emanations, but I do have poetically inclined friends (with definite Wittgensteinian sympathies) who might...

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  2. That's a good question. I thought about trying to explain but wasn't sure how to put it exactly. I'll try harder now. It's edited by Carter Kaplan, author of Critical Synoptics, which is described thus:

    Critical Synoptics draws important comparisons between Wittgenstein’s synoptic analysis and Menippean satire—the first time this relationship has been described. The book presents a thorough introduction to Wittgenstein’s philosophy prepared specifically for students of literature. This literary approach will prove useful to philosophers too, as they seek more effective ways to insinuate Wittgenstein’s teachings across the disciplines.

    If anyone wants to write an essay on Wittgenstein and shamanism I think he would be interested.

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    1. I actually think that there are interesting parallels between Wittgenstein's critique of Freud (and Frazer) and Isabelle Stengers' defense (against psychoanalysis) of mesmerism that plays into the kinds of suggest-ability at work in cases like:
      https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=system/files/lurmann_metakinesisfinal.pdf
      -dmf

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    2. that study is, I think, just a variation on:
      http://www.academia.edu/598411/The_cradle_of_language_making_sense_of_bodily_connexions
      -dmf

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    3. Thanks--fascinating stuff. I still don't think I'm ready to write about Wittgenstein and shamanism, but maybe sometime I'll get to it.

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    4. ha, no me either but am interested in trying to understand issues around aspect-dawning, performance/staging, affect, and all, the old functionalist reductions (and many of the new speculative "evolutionary" psychologies) just leave too much uncovered in terms of how we value/relate to much of our world and by what moves/persuades us, what we value and how.
      -dmf

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