Bourdieu on Blogging
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Kvond has an interesting post on Bourdieu, blogging, and speculative thinking, linked above. Commenter Corry Shores led me to quote this excerpt, which I liked a lot, too:
If we may be monks, the conditions that allow our speculation are brought along with it, and if we really are pursuing, not just speculation for its pleasures of freedom and imagination, not just some kind of run-around of Institutional restraint, searching for cheaper prestige, but true ideas and ideas that inherently should matter to the world, the consequence of our ideas (politically, ethically, socially) must be embraced. In this way there is an epistemological mandate for our ontological speculation which immediately connects ethics to metaphysics.
I second the need to conect ethics to metaphysics, although I imagine that we would part ways considerably over precisely how to forge such a connection. I also like that Kvond’s remarks on scholasticism tangentially connect up to the Kojin Karatani excerpts a few posts earlier, where he makes a brief critical remark on the philosophia scholastica.