From Adorno to Benjamin
My name is Aaron. I’m a twenty-six-year old music student from Canada. The idea of letter-written correspondence has long appealed to me as something potentially enriching. But how to start?
My interest in philosophy is not professional. I’m merely a philosophaster. And I’m no good with symbolic logic. Still, it would be nice to talk allusively with someone, very nice. (My close friends are neither readers nor philosophisers.) Some of my favourite philosophers are Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Plato and Socrates, Pascal, and Schopenhauer.
Now, music - ‘serious’ music - is my first and greatest love. Literature in general next - including philosophy - and then the visual arts. I also enjoy running, coffee, and cigars - when I can afford them.
So, if anyone from anywhere is interested in mutually edifying correspondence …
Aaron can be contacted at aaron.6640@gmail.com.
Anonymous Asks:
fromadornotobenjamin Said:
The project isn’t dead per se. The tumblr page is meant to be a place for people to find each other more than anything else. I check it to make sure messages get read and answered when applicable. But really, it’s on others to read through the profiles and see if there’s anyone they want to write to.
Look at this picture of Adorno. Just look at it.
“Whereas in the real world all particulars are fungible, art protests against fungibility by holding up images of what reality itself might look like if it were emancipated from the patterns of identification imposed on it. By the same token, art—the image of the unexchangable—verges on ideology…
My name is Alan Kravitz. I’m a copywriter and marketing specialist going after my Master’s in literature and creative writing at Harvard. Needless to say, I have an insatiable passion for the written word, but I also love music and philosophy. I have an endless fascination with Shakespeare, not only because of the timelessness of his plays and poems, but also because of the mysteriousness that still surrounds his life. I love the fact that, hundreds of years after his “time,” people are still discovering new details about his life. On the whole, I find myself attracted to artists and philosophers who pour everything into their art without feeling the need to “explain” themselves. Playwrights like Edward Albee and musicians like Bob Dylan fall into that category. As for the writers I’m devoted to, they include Kafka, Woolf, Wilde and Steinbeck - as well as current writers like Michael Chabon and Zadie Smith. I’m into the works of essayists as well, such as David Sedaris and Mary Karr.
I will share more as I get to know this project more. I think it’s a great idea and I look forwarding to meeting like-minded people.
My name is Andrew Foltz-Morrison. I am twenty-one years old, an undergraduate at Rutgers University and resident of its home city of New Brunswick, New Jersey. I double major in philosophy and human geography. The combination allows me to pursue both theoretical and practical questions that I find interesting, and the flexibility to move between the two with ease. I am in the process of putting together my honors thesis for next year, which will apply concepts from contemporary analytic philosophy to resolve some of the challenges facing critical realism, particularly as it concerns geography. My research interests include social philosophy, political economy, built environments, social epistemology, urban development, applied ethics, appropriation and reuse of space, philosophy of social science, and speech act theory. I find the turn towards more careful examination of social questions in contemporary analytic philosophy to be very exciting. My favorite academics are David Harvey, John Searle, Jerry Fodor, Alvin Goldman, Andrew Sayer, John Roemer, Alan Sokal, G.A. Cohen, Bertrand Russell, and Derek Parfit.
In my spare time, I listen to music, run, work out, watch movies, do graphic design, and waste time on the web. I also occasionally work for the campus bookstore.
I have two blogs on tumblr:http://newleft.tumblr.com/ includes my political and academic blogging, andhttp://andrewfm.tumblr.com/ is my personal blog. I tend to post a lot of electro and dance music.You may also find me on twitter, @andrew_fm.
Pleased to meet all of you. Feel free to contact me at thefomo[at]gmail.com
Tags: analytic philosophy, geography, philosophy of social science, critical realism, methodology, theory
zizek, sartre, heidegger, hegel, death, truth, being, knowledge, faith, belief, god, ….
write to me for more info.
email only.
r e a d a b o o o k @ g m a i l . c o m
My name is Jeremy. I’m 20, and attending SUNY Purchase for Media, Society, and the Arts and Arts Management, with a minor in Anthropology. I hope to attend the New School for Media Studies for graduate work. My hometown is Staten Island, New York. In high school, I traveled to England, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan, as well as compiling a physical scrapbook (The International Teen Scrapbook) for iEARN, with countries such as Bahrain, Poland, Syria, and Belarus participating. That experience pushed me in to various other regions of exploration, such as intellectual property licensing, globalization, and communication, all of which is covered in MSA. Some of the people I’ve studied are as follows: Claude Levi-Strauss, Mary Douglas, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Dick Hebdige, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Andrew Higson, and various others. In my spare time, I play sudoku, video games, attend shows on campus, play in a band (we’re called Gills), and in the midst of starting my record label (which is only conceptual at this point).
My Tumblr is oriole organs. Contact me there.
