Attention!Borges: Library of Babel: Tautology and Infinity
In the last video, we discussed the epistemological implications of the library and how it translates to our own universe. In this video, we discuss what Borges means with "to speak is to fall into tautology," and find a way the library of Babel could be infinite, after all .
Borges: Library of Babel: Tautology and InfinityAttention!2022-03-22 | Borges: Library of Babel: Tautology and Infinity
In the last video, we discussed the epistemological implications of the library and how it translates to our own universe. In this video, we discuss what Borges means with "to speak is to fall into tautology," and find a way the library of Babel could be infinite, after all .
**** Where else to find me: Instagram: instagram.com/paeveo Twitter: twitter.com/Pae_VeoThe Philosophical Threads of Authorship | AWC 2024Attention!2024-06-30 | This thought-provoking seminar explores the intricate relationship between current philosophical trends and the art of writing, offering a unique perspective on how awareness of these trends can empower authors to gain more control over their creative expression.
Mirroring Reality Through Words: Examine the correlation between philosophical trends and the reflection of reality in literature. Understand how being attuned to these trends enables authors to mirror and interpret the world around them through their work.
Benefits of Conscious Writing: Investigate the transformative benefits of conscious writing, where authors, readers, and intersubjective communication converge. Learn how being cognizant of these elements enhances the development of ideas and creates a more relatable experience for the reader.
Beyond Fiction: Redefining Reality in Writing: Challenge the notion of writing fiction and explore the impossibility of truly writing fiction in the conventional sense. Discover how awareness of this paradigm shift puts authors in control of the reality that influences their work, transcending traditional boundaries.
Leave empowered with a profound understanding of philosophy's role in your writing, and take control of your narratives, armed with insights that illuminate the hidden threads shaping your words!
Sheratan: youtube.com/channel/UCdCbo3nO56Prgilt3w6XO0gDescartes: Clear and Distinct Ideas are True (Truth Rule)Attention!2023-05-02 | #descartes #philosophy In this video, I discuss what Descartes means by "clear and distinct ideas are true" (Meditation three: “I posit as a general rule that everything I very clearly and distinctly perceive is true”). This has come to be known as the 'Truth Rule' and has had a few interpretations over the years. Here, I primarily look at Meditations and the objections, along with Principles of Philosophy.
00:00 intro 00:20 Truth Rule 00:55 Sartre's Definition 3:35 Descartes' Definition 4:20 Correspondence Theory of Truth 5:40 Short Rant 10:09 Descartes' Correspondence 10:40 Clear and Distinct Ideas are True 15:08 Relativity of Perception 19:20 Primary/Secondary Qualities
After making a clear and real distinction between mind and body, what would later become known as Cartesian dualism, in Descartes final philosophical work published in his lifetime, Passions of the Soul, he goes into detail on how these two finite substances are united. In this video, I give a short explanation on how Descartes believes this works, defining “animal spirits” and discussing his correspondence with Princess Elizabeth.
0:00 intro 0:53 Three Distinctions 4:53 How body and Mind are united 6:41 Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth 8:08 Passions of the Soul 8:44 The Reasoning about the Pineal Gland 12:50 Animal Spirits
I say very little about books in this video. I say very little about five in particular.
Books Mentioned: Aphesis by Treydon Lunot Systems and Subjects by Cadell Last Belonging Again by O.G. Rose Psychology and Human Agency by Davood Gozli Genu by Alex Franquelli, Giulio Srubek Tomassy, and Tommaso Todesca
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Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/friendly-ghost License code: X8AYVBDRPQP5RGIWDescartes: Substance: Attribute/ModeAttention!2023-03-14 | #philosophy #descartes #substance
In this video, we discuss how Descartes understands attribute and mode in relation to substance dualism. He divides substances into mutually exclusive categories of the thinking and the extended. Whatever thinks may be essentially a thinking substance, but not essentially extended in space, and whatever is extended is essentially extended in space but not essentially thinking.
Chapters:
0:00 intro 1:23 Substance Dualism 4:20 Res Extensa & Res Cogitans 6:55 Attributes and Modes 9:25 Three Distinctions 14:56 Complete Substance 17:55 Steps in Reasoning
In this video, we take a look at Descartes’s method of doubt. Primarily looking at the four rules presented in part two of the Discourse on the Method. Cartesian doubt, methodic doubt, methodological [skepticism], universal doubt, systematic doubt, and hyperbolic doubt are all forms of methodological doubt that are associated with René Descartes' writings and methodology.
00:00 intro 1:14 Method of Doubt 3:05 Four Rules from Discourse 5:10 Skepticism and Doubt 7:35 Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz 10:00 Rationalist 21:10 Summary of the Method 23:04 Peirce's Argument
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): uppbeat.io/t/sonder-house/jellies-holly-jones License code: JGTYNYFRWF1AG5WWTalking/Talking About PhilosophyAttention!2023-02-13 | The main discussion begins around 4:30 The first four minutes is explaining why I am talking about this in the first place, which, understandably, will not be of interest to most here. In this video, I discuss the difference between speaking about philosophy and speaking philosophy. We look at the history of ideas, history of philosophy, and philosophy of history within the context that is typical on this platform. Channels mentioned: O.G. Rose youtube.com/@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel Brandon’s Bookshelf: youtube.com/@BrandonsBookshelf Stoicism Vs. Epicureanism: youtube.com/watch?v=Zw_yJD_I2QI
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): uppbeat.io/t/sonder-house/jellies-holly-jones License code: JGTYNYFRWF1AG5WWRegulative Idea (Reading from Stygian Caravan)Attention!2023-01-24 | Apologies for the awful quality--it was a rushed video done on a broken phone. But, wanted to share this quick reading from an ongoing event set up by Stygian that will continue in the spring. Next video will be the start of a short series that will begin with "The Cartesian Landscape" and lead to Sartre's reading of Husserl, Hegel and Heidegger in regard to the Other.
Welcome back, everyone! I have a few updates on what is going on, including the release of my novel, The Pérelin Decline. I talk a bit about my book here, as well as what has been keeping me away. Also, though I am very late in this announcement there has been a read along of Faust and adaptations (details below).
Where to find Lovern Kindzierski's work: lovernk.com
Faust reading: Wrap Up Liveshow on Jennifer's channel @jenniferbrooks on August 27th @ 4pm PT / 7 pm ET Along with @ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace @RaineyDayReads @Naomi's Bookshelf
Other channel's mentioned: @GunpowderFictionPlotBorges: Library of Babel/summary and analysisAttention!2022-03-15 | The short story “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges was first published in 1941 in its original Spanish, and later in English in 1962. Though the idea of a total library had been written about previously, Borges gives us one of the most memorable accounts of such a concept. The library being representative of the universe, this video discusses the epistemological implications, and questions the limitations of what it is we can know.
**** Where else to find me: Instagram: instagram.com/paeveo Twitter: twitter.com/Pae_VeoDiscussion with O.G. Rose on the Work of KafkaAttention!2022-03-04 | Hello everyone, and welcome back! While I am just getting back into things, I thought I would share part of a discussion had with good friend, Daniel, over at O.G. Rose, where we discuss the literature and philosophy of Franz Kafka. The section of the conversation here is considering the significance, or interpretation of the panther in Kafka’s The Hunger Artist. You can find below everything mentioned in the introduction to this video!
I have been away for a short moment, and wrote this recently. Thought I would share it. Hope you like it. Although, I hope you didn't click on this in hopes to improve your life. This probably wont help. It may make it worse. It will probably make it worse. But, if you are looking on YouTube on ways to be happy, you have probably already given up. Does anyone read descriptions?Albert Camus The Fall Summary and AnalysisAttention!2021-11-23 | #Camus #BookTube #study
Albert Camus The Fall Summary and Analysis
The Fall, by Albert Camus, was first published in its original French in 1956 and a year later in English. It is considered one of Camus most philosophical works of fiction. Jean-Baptiste Clamence confesses what has brought him from Paris to Amsterdam to a stranger at a bar called Mexico City. Here we discover the reasons for Clamence’s fall from innocents, and why he judges himself the way he does.Franz Kafka The Dream (reading)Attention!2021-11-16 | #Kafka #Booktube #reading
Franz Kafka The Dream (Ein Traum)
This short story has been published in multiple collection since Kafka’s death. It tells of a dream had by the protagonist of his novel, The Trial, Joseph K.Edgar Allan Poe, Kierkegaard, and AnxietyAttention!2021-11-02 | #Poe #BookTube
Edgar Allan Poe, Kierkegaard, and Anxiety
In this video, we discuss characters found in a few short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, and what they tell us about Kierkegaard’s concept of anxiety. The primary focus is on the story The Imp of the Perverse—a story by Poe that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. We discuss the psychology in characters such as the unnamed narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart, and Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s characters seem to reflect a particular side of what Kierkegaard called anxiety, often translated to dread.
And, if you have a lot of time to kill, and don’t care too much about your mental health, here is the full 300 pages of Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety:
Beginning in the late nineteenth century a movement began to sweep the globe that brought radical change to every aspect of life. The industrialized world was on the rise after witnessing the tragedies of World War I, and artistic movements began to change culture in ways that are still seen today. People were re-examining their values and finding traditional concepts of the Enlightenment were no longer applicable. A desire for a new way of creating and expressing the individual’s place in the world emerged and abstract art from literature to music became the norm.
Artists in this video, and title of the work shown:
Paul Cézanne (The Large Bathers) Picasso (A Portrait of Wilhelm Unde) Salvador Dali (The Persistence of Memory) Fortunato Depero (Skyscrapers and Tunnels) Oskar Kokoschka (The Tempest) Kazimir Malevich (Suprematism painting) Wassily Kandinsky (Composition VIII) Lyubov Popova (Painterly Architectonic) Kawabe Masahisa (L’esprit Nouveau)
Can fiction make you a better person? This question has been going around, and I thought I would give it a shot. Though there have been multiple studies that show how fiction can provide one with a better moral compass, but what does that mean? And what are the reasons that so many believe that fiction has the power to change an individual?
Back to the discussion of subjectivity in art, and if there can be an objective review of a particular work. This video is in response to a video put out by Michael Knipp, over on his channel, where he argues that popular opinion is the only objective standard. Below, you can see that video.
The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1942 in its original French, and four years later, in English. With over ten million readers since its publication, it is one of the most recognized works of existential fiction, along with Sartre’s Nausea. The Stranger tells the story of Meursault, who his convicted and sentenced for a murder. Camus uses this character to demonstrate what he called “the absurd man,” someone who has recognized the absurdity of human existence and accepts this belief to the death.
The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1942 in its original French, and four years later, in English. With over ten million readers since its publication, it is one of the most recognized works of existential fiction, along with Sartre’s Nausea. The Stranger tells the story of Meursault, who his convicted and sentenced for a murder. Camus uses this character to demonstrate what he called “the absurd man,” someone who has recognized the absurdity of human existence and accepts this belief to the death. In today’s video we explore how the concept of time plays a significant roll in The Stranger, and how Camus used time as a tool to investigate the psychological workings of the antihero, Meursault.
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. Although, it has been said that these opening lines are impossible to translate into English, this begins the short novel “The Stranger” by Albert Camus. Here, we will take a look at the antihero Meursault, and how he is portrayed in the work. Though often accused of many things in which Camus had spoken out against, he is nonetheless a complex character that is well established within the opening lines of The Stranger (often translated to The Outsider).
The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1942 in its original French, and four years later, in English. With over ten million readers since its publication, it is one of the most recognized works of existential fiction, along with Sartre’s Nausea. The Stranger tells the story of Meursault, who his convicted and sentenced for a murder. Camus uses this character to demonstrate what he called “the absurd man,” someone who has recognized the absurdity of human existence and accepts this belief to the death.
The Myth of Sisyphus was published in 1942, and outlines what would become one of Albert Camus’ most recognized philosophical ideas—absurdism. One of the most influential works of its time, the essay provides a look into how one can live a life away from despair while accepting the meaningless existence. Reaffirming the value of personal existence, Camus offers a blueprint on how to live a more authentic life.
1. Tenuvus & Onemore – Rose and Joe, Sr. had a boat called Tenuvus to signify the ten members of the Kennedy clan. With the birth of Ted, the family named another boat Onemore. What book with a large cast of characters would you recommend? 2. PT-109 – What is your favorite book featuring a harrowing survival, rescue, or war story? 3. Addison’s Disease – What is your favorite book that deals with disease or the medical field? 4. Camelot – What real or imagined dynasty would you like to read more about? 5. “High Hopes” – Frank Sinatra re-recorded this song for Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign. If you ran for office, what would your campaign song be? 6. “We choose to go to the moon!” – Name the last book you read that was set in space. 7. Coconut – The coconut shell JFK carved a rescue message on during the PT-109 incident was encased in plastic and used as a paperweight in the Oval Office. Do you have any neat desk items or mementos? 8. Scandal – What personal or political scandal would you like to read more about? 9. Peace Corps – What book made you a better person? 10. Conspiracy? – What are your thoughts on the Kennedy assassination?
Magda Szabo’s The Door was first published in 1987. The novel explores the relationship between two women, a housekeeper, Emerence, and an author, Magda. The novel continues throughout contributing mythological characteristics to the character of Emerence, building her up as something that resembles more folklore than it does truth. This short character analysis provides one example of how myth works to drive a story forward.
Channel mentioned and the video on The Door by Magda Szabo:
Twitter: twitter.com/Pae_VeoWhat is an Author? Author-Function (Foucault)Attention!2021-06-26 | #litcrit #literarytheory
What is an Author?
In 1969, French philosopher Michel Foucault delivered a lecture titled, “What is an Author?” This lecture can be taken as a response to the notion of the death of the author, made famous by Roland Barthes. Foucault states his idea of the author as a timeless irreducible category, one in which he calls, the Author-function. In this video, I discuss what he describes as the Author-function, and what it is Foucault saw as filling the empty void that the death of the author left.
The four characteristic traits of the author-function:
1) the author function is linked to the juridical and institutional system that encompasses, determines, and articulates the universe of discourses; 2) it does not affect all discourses in the same way at all times and in all types of civilizations. 3) it is not defined by the spontaneous attribution of a discourse to its producer, but rather by a series of specific and complex operations. 4) it does not refer purely and simply to a real individual, since it can give rise simultaneously to several selves, to several subjects—positions that can be occupied by different classes of individuals”
The short essay, The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes, was published in 1967. This essay offered new insight on the relationship between the author and reader. Barthes states that the death of the Author must be for the birth of the reader. The purpose and meaning of a text is not something that is placed in the text by the author and left for the reader to “decode,” but the meaning of a text is something that begins and ends with the reader. Here, we discus this, along with other key concepts found in the essay.
In today’s video, we discuss deconstruction as a form of literary criticism. Deconstruction began in the 1960s, largely due to the work of Jacques Derrida and his published works, “Of Grammatology” and “Writing and Difference.” Though Derrida would spend his career defining deconstruction, it would become a turning point in the world of literary criticism. Though it has been largely misunderstood, this video attempts to clear up some of the misconceptions, as well as give a brief understanding of how deconstruction works as a form of criticism.
1. Do you mostly read books illustrating pain or books illustrating joy? Why? 2. Do you see books about pain as more intellectually valuable? Why or why not? 3. Why do you think major book prizes like the Booker and the Pulitzer mainly award books about pain? 4. Do you use and agree with the phrase “guilty pleasure”? Why or why not? 5. Do you think books centring joy are guilty pleasures? 6. Do you read in secret? Are there books you read but never talk about because of embarrassment, shame, or guilty about liking them? 7. Tag people.
Some stuff to read if you have nothing better to do today than read about sad.
Deconstruction derived primarily from the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s. Within the context of structuralism, Derrida interrogated Western philosophy, and challenged its institutions. Deconstruction looks at the relationship between text and language and examines the structuralist movements that had been hugely influential in logistics and the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. Here, we take a quick look at both structuralism and deconstruction side by side, and clear some misconceptions while defining terms along the way!Literary Criticism/Part Three (start of structuralism)Attention!2021-05-22 | #litcrit
In today’s video on literary criticism and theory, we will be taking a look at what started the structuralist movement. We will take a look at psychologists such as Wilhelm Wundt, and hist student Edward B. Titchener, as well as the father of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure. Defining many of the terms, we will show how structuralism began and how it became a theory on language to a literary theory.
In the first video we went over three approaches to literary criticism: formalist, psychological/psychoanalytic, and mythological/archetypal. Today we will take a quick look at historical criticism, and see how these approaches that we have gone over can be applied to a specific work.
Literary criticism is the way in which works of literature are analyzed using specific approaches developed by literary theorists. These approaches can lend a better understanding to an author's intended purpose of a work.
Literary criticism is the way in which a critic analysis, compares, interprets, and evaluates a work of literature. There are many different ways to approach literary criticism, and in this video, we will take a look at three major ways of doing so—formalist criticism, mythological/ archetypal criticism, and psychological/psychoanalytic criticism.
Q1: Moll Flanders: In what ways do you feel socio-economic status influences the lives of rogues? Q2: Cat-Woman: How important do you think it is for a rogue to be athletic, acrobatic, and charming? Q3: Kvothe: Do you feel a rogue should have musical skills: singing, playing an instrument, or dancing? Q4: The Musketeers: Do you believe in a code of honor or justice, even when breaking the rules? Q5: Maverick: When doing roguish things, do you prefer to act alone or in a group? Q6: Star Lord: Do you have a fun alias or nickname you go by? Q7: Loki: Have you ever played pranks on your family members? Q8: Debbie Ocean: Do you have any infamous family members or friends? Q9: Han Solo: Have you ever used secret compartments or hiding places for things? If so, what? Q10: Indiana Jones: Do you have an iconic item, such as a hat or whip, that people know you by? Q11: Captain Jack Sparrow: Was there a time that you were almost caught doing something, but got away? Q12: Doctor Who: How likely are you to run and hide if there’s something scary in your life? Q13: River Song: Do you call other people endearing nicknames? Q14: Captain Jack Harkness: Have you had any near-death experiences? Q15: In all of literature, who is your favorite rogue?
Jean-Paul Sartre published No Exit in 1944 to which it saw immediate success. It would later be published in 1945. It was first preformed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in may. It is a one act play that consists of three primary characters. No Exit showcases many of Sartre’s idea that are found in his philosophical essays including his most well known, Being and Nothingness. In this video, we go over some of those ideas.Franz Kafka A Hunger ArtistAttention!2021-04-17 | #Booktube #Kafka
A Hunger Artist was one of the few short stories that Franz Kafka had published in his life time in 1922 in a German Magazine. And though he prepared it for a collection of short stories, Kafka would pass away before seeing it published later that year in 1924. It remains one of his more discussed short stories. With the many themes and symbols, as all of his work, it is open for interpretation. The story has been adapted to stage, as well as a Japanese film.
The question, is there such thing as an objective review has been making its rounds--so here is a quick response to two wonderful channels and their videos in regard to the subject.
1. Tag Firsts: did you do the Booktube Newbie Tag? If not what was your first tag? Do you choose to watch Newbie Tags? 2. Tag Emotions: what feelings do tags provoke in you? Tag joy and delight? Tag boredom and resentment? Tag guilt or anxiety? Even tag envy? 3. Tag Favourites: what kind of tags do you like most and least, to do and to watch? 4. Tag Style: how do you tag? Do you have a system for keeping track of when you are tagged or tags you plan to do? Do you prepare to do tags or just wing it? 5. Tag Memories: of the tags you have watched, done or created which have stuck in your memory? Are there any you would like to revisit or revive?
With a career that spans over seventy years, Ray Bradbury wrote some of the most read books of his time. With multiple collections of short stories such as “The Illustrated Man” and “Dark Carnival” and novels like “Fahrenheit 451” and “Something Wicked this Way Comes,” Bradbury would become a leader in the genres of science fiction and speculative fiction. Passing away on June 5th 2012, Ray Bradbury left behind eleven novels, forty-nine short story collections, and multiple plays and screen plays.
Although there is not much known about the science fiction author, Kilgore Trout, what is known is only speculative. Despite writing over 117 novels and 2000 short stories, if Trout was known at all to critics, it was strictly for his terrible writing. However, many of the ideas found in Trout’s stories are just as relevant today as they were whenever he wrote them. He died in 2001. Or 1981. Maybe 2007. But it could have been 1985.Searching for Marilyn Monroe: Tending RabbitsAttention!2021-03-19 | #Booktube #poetry #reading
This is a reading of “Tending Rabbits” from my book, “Searching for Marilyn Monroe.” Though I was not planning on putting this up, I was held up with some things this week to put out the usual tag video. So apologies to Noah over at Everyone Who Reads it Must Converse. But hope you like this short reading, and if not, I wont be too bothered. Or at least, that is what I will say.
One common question asked about Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 classic, Slaughterhouse Five, is if Billy Pilgrim’s adventure to Tralfamadore is a delusion or something that actually occurred. Here, we discuss the concept of free will, and how this theme gives clues to Billy’s reality.
In 1969, Kurt Vonnegut would publish his sixth novel, Slaughterhouse Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death.” Though he had previously published novels, Slaughterhouse Five would make Kurt Vonnegut one of the most read American novelists. The book was adapted into a film in 1972, and continues to be read in classrooms across America.