Comments on: Clarification/Contestation

By: Ross Brighton

Ross Brighton — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:38:52 +0000

Excelent, I’ll definately look into both of those – Thanks heaps, Ben.

By: Ben Woodard

Ben Woodard — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:30:04 +0000

A return to Plato in Grant’s sense – this is a Plato of the Timaeus – the Plato who discusses dark matter.
Plato is particularly useful in attempting to grasp ideas given an all encompassing nature – as a form of becoming so that ideas are ‘out there’ but not as timeless forms but very slow moving processes – (see chapter 6 of Grant’s Philosophies of Nature after Schelling.)

If you are interested in Plato’s treatment of poets you should take a look at Judith Balso’s work…

By: Ross Brighton

Ross Brighton — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:38:43 +0000

“A Return to Plato which I am all for” – how so? I’m curious. With the precedents that underlie your work and their often militant disavowal of Plato, this could be very very interesting – not to mention the anthropocentricism (and monoculturalism) of Platonic formalism, and the fact that I take his damnation of poets far too personally…..

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Actants, Ontology, and Epistemology « Larval Subjects . — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:51:33 +0000

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