If people were doing idealism from the perspective of plants and egg yolks I'd be game though.

. I just think that Badiou is really lousy as a mathematician, — Arcane Sandwich

He doesn't do mathematics. He uses mathematics. I wouldn't want to call him a mathematician any more than I'd want to call him a novelist.

Laruelle sounds kinda crazy. — Arcane Sandwich

He is. You might enjoy Brassier's condensation of him in "Axiomatic Heresy". There's a much longer discussion of Laruelle in {slightly} plainer English in Brassier's "Alien Theory" too. I think it's worth looking into if you're very sick of playing pomo bingo in every paper you read. I just switch off when I hear things like "create and sustain", "in and through", "engender and presuppose". Laruelle has an excellent vantage point on such catcheisms of reciprocal determination.

Idealism is not a big deal, honestly. — Arcane Sandwich

It is to me. I enjoy the thoroughly inhuman. It's a shame if everything is eye shaped.

I'm fond of him, but I think he thinks he's more rigorous than he is. If you read his use of mathematics as examples of "his master" Lacan's mathemes, they make some amount of sense. Cosmogenesis {not that it's exactly cosmogenesis but whatever} out of the empty set doesn't make too much sense. The universe being equated with lack of set level concept applicable to the set of all sets doesn't make much sense either.

I never found a satisfying answer for why there are exactly four truth procedures, or why they're individuated the way they are {why not love-politics and art-science?}.

The underlying issue I have with Badiou, besides the pretence of mathematical rigour that follows him around, is that I read him as basically an idealist. I think that's what happens when your central category in ontology is truth - you gotta ask "of what?", and here it's some world-shattering reconfiguration, and that world is always a world with humans in it.

I also enjoy, what I recall as, Laruelle's remark about Badiou that Badiou pretends to be the ultimate philosopher of multiplicity, but the scope of his architectonics and strict methodological purity in metaphysics {it needs mathemes} renders him both pragmatically and ontologically a firm ally of the one.

Though I think Badiou made the same remark about Deleuze for different reasons. So I could be mistaking that. Laruelle's Anti-Badiou was one of the hardest books I've read. I hope it was easier in French, but I doubt it.

I'm so sick of Heidegger. I did it to myself though.

Why would you want to step down? — Bob Ross

No comment, innit brev.

No comment.

I'm not a mod, it's someone else's problem. :lol:

Come at me bro.

I'm quite enjoying stoking the fire.

@frank seemed to believe you were a girl.

I know you were being honest.

I took your invitation to indulge in irrelevant shit throwing.

@frank - and the majority of posts you've made would've gotten you banned if we kept the editorial standards from the old site. Your move!

I see. Well I suppose you could make a Feedback thread.

And you really believe this is what was happening? — frank

Yes. I advise you try moderating any political discussion which involves climate change, gender, race or Gaza.

The majority of @Mikie's posts that you were talking about, I believe, were directed toward people who he believed - reasonably - were supporting genocide, the thorough subversion of democracy, and the annihilation of the human race. It is unreasonable to expect anyone to be civil about such things.

Oh? Who?

Yeah. Though I probably won't post much. After I've spent my pent up energy from being neutral for a decade.

So, fdrake, you wanna tell me why you're not passionate about Mathematics anymore? — Arcane Sandwich

I just don't care about big number, because big number is big is boring.

That sounds like nonsense. — Arcane Sandwich

Nonsense is the said unsaid.

Do I agree with this? I'm not sure. What do you mean by that? — Arcane Sandwich

The true form of the shitpost is that which leaves what is stated unstated and what is unstated stated.

Because you can't shitpost without appearing to be somewhat sincere.

I'm just shitposting because I don't really care.

Skill issue honestly.

I advise you to read what I wrote about music videos again.

Yeah you just gotta make a bigger universe obv.

I don't care. The size of the number is unimportant.

Bum doesn't exist until thought of.
Unless bum exists without thoughts.
I between thoughts is bum.

Now that I don't have to be objective.

And you're probably already aware of this, but how literal and direct your interpretations of other people's posts are can come off as acerbic. If someone doesn't have a frame of reference for your social style anyway. That isn't just a you thing. People can interpret you being direct, literal and detail focussed as disrespectful and then escalate what they perceive as a conflict.

I'm not even sure you can do anything about it anyway, it's just something to be mindful of.

You could do that by refraining from posting off topic music videos that inevitably clog up the mod action queue.

Also stop apologising.

Please stop thanking me now.

It's mostly just corralling frustrated people to disagree with each other without being total arses. Amusingly I could submit the command to remove my own admin privileges, so I did so.

I'm sorry to see fdrake go. — Jamal

I also am sorry to go. I don't want to!

It is not always easy to track the endless chat in each thread; furthermore, regarding those threads that are mainly political, it is complex to find out a balance on both sides of the debate. I — javi2541997

I missed loads of stuff all the time.

Sorry to see the only moderator who is a mathematician leave that position. — jgill

Lol I went into teaching and forgot most of the hardcore maths.

Can you grant preemptive pardons to your favorite members as part of your last moderator actions? — Mikie

Naw. Thank god.

There ought to be a special section for retired staff to complain about how things have gone downhill, — unenlightened

I think that's the Shoutbox. {shots fired}

Baden seems to have given up the ghost, too? — Amity

Baden's just on a break from the internet. He'll be back eventually.

And your status as 'Admin'? Are you moving on from that as well? — Amity

Yes. I'll be doing nothing more for the site other than perhaps post.

This looks like an AI generated OP. Closing thread.

@DifferentiatingEgg @Arcane Sandwich Neither of you is gaining anything from this exchange, so stop it.

This seems almost entirely AI generated, I'm closing the thread. Please see site guidelines.