belief ⁽⁵⁾

Displaced belief (exemplum) : “Do you believe in god?” “No, but I go to church to keep the children happy.” I think Slavoj Žižek describes it correctly, but is wrong about the dates. Displaced belief is the basic compromise of 'modernity' which goes back into the late paleolithic. Well before Žižek’s example of Luther, well before Bruno Snell’s Discovery of the Greek…

Originally posted on substack.com in February 2024. It is perhaps a caricature of analytic philosophy that an analytic philosopher takes it for granted that beliefs are merely propositions that are held to be true. They use belief as a type of shortcut or shorthand for a whole world of formally logicked pain. It is the analytic philosopher’s job to nut out that solution space.

① "not believing in X" is easily confused with ② “not believing” if you have no frame of practice in noticing 'world-building' is what you mean by meaning. We live in an age that follows the rise and fall of many empires. Empires are a collection of kingdoms and cities. Empires are a derivative of the practices of those states.

First posted on substack in May 2023. I was ruminating about writing a post on throwing belief/s into the… —gap, and while readingWhy We Believe by Agustín Fuentes… —on the facebook group Pyrrhonism, a post came up on the book In Praise of Doubt by Peter Berger and Anton C. Zijderveld. For a moment I confused it with a title…

In February 2024 in Writing good out of me worlds better than the old fool's selfie I left off with an enigmatic: And Julia Kristeva’s Lacanist worlding? I may leave that for another day with the cheap remark that it is not engrams all the way down. No, they lie only between the fool and the world. So finally I…