Philosophy Twits

January 28, 2010 1:51 AM

American, and British philosophers. Having both of these streams brought to my attention separately, I thought it may be interesting to bring them together for contemplation.

I'm not even sure I can say anything meaningful about the juxtaposition, only that I thought it striking. Shitmydadsays appeared previously.

posted by LD Feral (4 comments total)

Uh.
posted by ageispolis at 2:09 AM on January 28, 2010

don't cross the twitter streams!
posted by srboisvert at 2:30 AM on January 28, 2010 [1 favorite]

Look at the time.
posted by june made him a gemini at 2:30 AM on January 28, 2010

Weird thing is though. I reviewed a recent book by Alain de Botton on my boeklog yesterday, and wrote:

de Botton makes the bleeding obvious a bit too bleeding obvious.

And what does he write on Twitter:

What we want from artists - to be helped to notice what we have already seen.

There is a whole school of thought based on this, I know. Stating that we wouldn't have recognized the bleeding obvious, if they hadn't described it first for us.

That's such a lame excuse.
posted by ijsbrand at 2:38 AM on January 28, 2010 [1 favorite]