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‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale on safety, LGBTQ+ rights and the future of Stonewall

The shade in this line from Derrida on something in Levinas: “New, quite new.”

And good too: the new PM spoke very early and clearly about the desirability of a UK return to the EU. I think he is right - and for the reasons I am guessing he probably has.

Great title! And I really like this conclusion “…and where there is no task there can be no computation.” Call that task-related activity “computational thinking”. Then there remains another question: Is there anything worthy of the name “non-computational thinking”? (Yes.)

In what was a rhetorically striking formulation, Starmer spoke recently of wanting an “ever closer” relationship with our European partners…

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union:

"I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."

That’s correct: “viewpoint diversity” has been promoted (mostly) by conservatives. One question (among the detritus) worth exploring further here is whether the fact that the majority of faculty in universities (esp. in the humanities) are left-leaning unduly shapes what is supposed question worthy.

The other argument is about whether (or when) to avoid them. The move to endnotes was one motive for me to do without them (most of the time - I have a very experimental text coming out soon in which the endnotes form a self-standing essay in their own right about 3x longer than the “main text”).

Some days I can’t help but think that leaving the EU will turn out to have been the best result possible: a reset the UK badly needed properly to join a federation of free states - a United Europe of States - that it can help to secure and maintain. Why not. That Empire state fantasy - set aside.

Very odd that Yuzi didn’t spot the ignoratio elenchi wrt to my argument. Strange.

You’ll have to wait for my paper on Wittgenstein and Sraffa on money to get published to see what I think!

That's me, btw, reading fiat money reserves and deposits like Sraffa reads fixed capital: like a joint product that is there at the end of the production process.

'money in reserves and deposits in banks can continue to be thought of as having a reality like a “reserve of gold buried in the garden”: whatever token values are held by a bank can be distinguished from tokens in circulation by being those identifiably (still) “on the books” at the year’s end.'

"Money Is Memory" N. Kocherlakota: "economic thinking about fiat money is paradoxical. Fiat money consists of intrinsically useless objects that do not enter utility functions. But at the same time, these barren tokens allow societies to achieve allocations that would otherwise not be achievable."

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This is not a claim. It’s an observation, something one can note or notice or (for the slow) realise.

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My last encounter with RS was at a big “How to…” debate on Brexit. We were not in the same side but he was cordial and very generous about my argument. The other Brexiter in the debate was Dan Hannan - who was a straightforward and outrageous liar. Boris J’s dad was in the audience - on my side.

“…people in Continental…”. One of the problems getting my now old self-defining projection argument getting through today is that there are young anglophones who don’t know there is no such thing as Continental philosophy because they have been taught that there is by analytic philosophers.

I wonder how fast these Heads will turn on them - and return to solid bourgeois life in their villas. “I was never…”

I think you just said: “I am an analytic philosopher”. Which is fine! You do you. But it’s good, I think, it’s better all round, to understand something of one’s own formation (its histories, deformations, obscurities, desires and denials) rather than simply to assume an identity as simply given.

I can’t agree. The poets/bureaucrats distinction collapses too since that distinction is just another way of dressing up something “poetic” (auto-poesis) within the codes of the “analytic philosopher”. And it does collapse. It lacks the very “rigour and clarity” that should mark the formation of AP.

It only makes sense to say this is “basically correct” if there is something independently identifiable as “continental philosophy” that it might be basically correct about. But “CP” is a rhetorical motif that belongs to the self-defining discourse of what produces itself as “analytic philosophy”.

It’s not “basically correct”, Liam. The “bad habits” here belong to the self-styling of the so-called “analytic philosopher”. It’s not even a set of habits. More a self-authorizing statement of faith.

Oh God. The blog poster linked to here is enjoying going through the motions on this (again) in a wholly familiar yet still essentially private way.

Of all the stories at the moment #BBCr4today was leading with Labour betray Brexit nonsense about dynamic alignment all because of @dailymail.co.uk @thesun.co.uk etc - meanwhile in Hungary the Putin/Trump right was stuffed and Trump’s war continues - oh and Pope Leo has got under his skin

Remarkable.

Democratic frontsliding.

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I’m so pleased that Vance took time out to go to Hungary to complain about foreign interference in national elections.