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Aristotle is the source of our modern notion of univocity. He was also the first to point out many things of interest that overflow our attempts at univocal representation. Something is said univocally (i.e., without equivocation) if the meaning is the same whenever the representation is the same. This is an important, desirable property in...
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While I have no objection to speaking of some subjectivity or subject-as-functional-role, a foundational Subject or subject-as-unexplained-explainer is an albatross with no philosophical benefit except to make possible intriguing but ultimately untenable discourses like those of Fichte or Husserl. It gets worse when something like foundational Subjecthood is attributed to empirical subjectivity. All sorts of...
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In the old days, my favorite text of Foucault was the beginning of the Archaeology of Knowledge (online here), revised from his "Réponse au Cercle d'épistémologie", published summer 1968 (o pregnant time!) in Cahiers pour L'Analyse, the original of which is separately translated in Essential Works vol. 1. There is a nice summary of the...
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Will The Huawei Case Finally Awaken Democrats To The China Threat And The Danger Of Faux Free Trade Rhetoric?
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