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Wolfe bases his interpretation of posthumanism on (to quote him) the removal of ' meaning from the ontologically closed domain of consciousness, reason, reflection, and so on.' Well, after you have removed the attempt to discover meaning through consciousness, reason and reflection from the human mind, you may as well do away with the entire head!

Spillers, H. J. (2006). The idea of Black culture. CR: The New Centennial Review, 6(3), 7-28. bcrw.barnard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Practicing%20Refusal%20Working%20Group/Spillers_IdeaofBlackCulture.pdf

A worthy investigation. The more we know 💯

My great granny Irene Bruneau had actually known him while growing up in Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan & was born around the same time as him in that town. She always said that his ring fitted her wrist like a bracelet.

Lovely woman. So modest. Her little library. Hah. Her vast store of knowledge is what I see and hear. So gracious how she fields troubling questions and brilliant in refusing the easy reductive answers. It’s a critical culture thing just so you know. In one BlackDiaspora culture we say: “ I said what I said.” Thank you for a lovely wake up with my tea. Almost like a prayer.

Loving this! Food for my head.

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Enjoying discovering Hortense Spillers fresh air thinking.

Hitchens doesn't know meditation or dharma or mysticism.

If it is defined as a critical posture, why do you just not talk about critical posture and then apply it to the black population? Why do you need to add black culture? I don't get it.

Bid Adieu to Girlish Days... is the Joyce poem that finally got published and then became a song. Bloomsday was the day When James knew Nora... "Bid Adieu to Girlish Days" celebrated the moment. czcams.com/video/GpesaLqd6Dk/video.html In 1904 Joyce had tried unsuccessfully to publish this poem in the Dublin magazine Dana. He also submitted it to Harper’s in January 1905, but again it was rejected. With two other poems from Chamber Music (I and XII), “Bid adieu to girlish days” was anthologized in The Dublin Book of Irish Verse (1909), edited by John Cooke. (This is the first time a work by Joyce was anthologized.) Joyce’s partiality toward this poem can also be seen in his efforts to have it set to music. In 1909 he tried actively to interest G. Molyneux Palmer in setting the poem musically: “It seems to me a pity you did not do the song ‘Bid adieu’ which I tried to music myself and hope you may turn to it some day” (Letters, II.227). (For more information see Letters, II.73, 77, 80, 117, and 227. Palmer eventually did set the poem to music.) Here, it's sung by Giorgio in 1949 and put to images in Paris on or around 02022020 featuring Joyce, Sylvia Beach, Samuel Beckett and Ezra Pound, all three who played key roles in James Joyce's life. Share this little item of literary history. czcams.com/video/GpesaLqd6Dk/video.html

Thank you for a Hitch debate I had not seen. Would that we had him around today.

Thankyou indeed Christopher hitchens

Aw------I can believe anything as long as you show me irrefutable evidence. Not just "a difference of opinion" That's what religion uses to hide behind (they say they have a difference of opinion) Opinion is the phrase people use when they don't have solid evidence to backup what they claim. Please don't mix up opinion with facts. Extraordinary claims requires that it be backed up by extraordinary evidence. Religion has no (and can't provide) evidence but they want you to take their word. Not gonna happen. The Palestinian leader (Yasser Arafat) said most wars are started because each side claims their invisible friend is more powerful than your invisible friend. Just stop for a moment and reflect on how totally ridiculous that sounds. Religion wants intelligent, reasonable people to believe in the invisible (make believe world) with absolutely no scientific evidence of their claims. We exist in the only world we know of, the tangible, physical world. A place you can touch and feel with real emotional contact. When the Vikings raped and pillaged England and killed all the prists and monks, where was their God? When the Nasis killed 6 million Jews, where was their God? When the Japanese beheaded all those Chinese Buddhist and raped and buried alive thousands of civilians, where was their God? All those Christians (their entire families) that were burned alive for their religious beliefs, including kids, todlers and babies, where was their God when they begged and prayed for saving them from a death of tremendous pain and cruelty? Please don't tell me that when these poor victims died, they would go to a better place (heaven). That is absolutely insanity. If ever there was the spread of misinformation, it's religion, and the church. They want people to belief in the invisible and everything the church preached to them? Absolutely ridiculous, only for the brainwashed people, not for anyone who actually ask questions and think for themselves. Religion makes logical people totally illogical and make crazy claims. Look at the facts, truth and evidence, learn and back it up first. The real evidence is all around us in the rocks and geological scientific facts. It's like the pages of a written book. If a person wants to be delusional (live in the world of make believe), go ahead and do so, share your delusions with like minded people. Keep it to yourselves. Don't say "GOD" gave us consciousness. There is no creators, if god existed, he or she would not be such a cruel entity. Don't expect free thinkers based on science, independent people and logical people to participate in those hallucinations. It's like telling little kids that there is Santa Claus, tooth fairies and easter bunnies. The good things that religious teaching preaches like (be good to your fellow men, love and honour your family, don't lie and do things to take advantage of others etc) all can be done without religion, it's called "consciousness" We all have it, just look at the guilty face in kids when they do what they are not suppose to. It's the basics of feeling guilty when you do something wrong. Mark Twain said "when you do good, you feel good, when you do bad, you feel bad" No one needs religion to teach us that. The samething applies to every religious beliefs and faith, including and not limited to Christianity, Muslims, Judaism, Hinduism, buddhism etc. It also includes all ancient superstitions, traditional cultural suppositions and assumptions. Some cultures have a God for everything. Literally hundreds of gods. All those central American natives like the Aztecs and Maya people. They ritual sacrificed people by cutting out their beating heart to please their GODS. It's absolutely unfathomable. If you were born in Asia, you religion would probably be buddhism. If you were born in the west, Christianity would be taught to you from childhood. If you were born in the middle east, you would probably be a Muslim. Religion completely brainwashes people. I could go on for hours but I don't want to waste your time or mine. I'll stop here. Respectfully, WAKE UP PEOPLE, free yourselves and break the manacles of delusional, hallucinations and idiology that's kept you shackled for all these years. Ask questions, think logically and embrace reality. Think with your brain before you speak. Look up Christopher Hutchings on youtube, you will learn things.

Its interesting to think what the great artists would have produced if they werent constrained by religion. The twentieth century, the first century in history where the grip of religion loosened, produced a huge amount of great art that wasnt inspired (or shackled) by religion.

Mr brummett bringes bla bla bla to life.

I can EASILY imagine the US without its sick zealots and their culture of hatred, waste, exclusion and their love of human sacrifice. No churches on every corner, no billboards threatening hell to people driving by, nobody saying "Have a blessed day", nobody abusing their children by depriving them of a life they COULD have had without sick, evil parents AND no televangelists.

Bummett. Totally out of his depth. Embarrassing for him.

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The incomparable Christopher Hitchens, dearest Sire this shot of JWB’s for you, thank you for liberating me and my family from the clutches of delusions and savagery, namely religion, Hitch’s legacy ensures his immortality, love the man.

Now we go back in time, roe vs wade "The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it's called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce " you are missed

Someone said this man was more precious than some Civilization. He was indeed.

Why is there so few gentlemen as informative as Christopher ? ... He worked till his last breath to unvail the truth about man made religions, controlling tools to keep us all like sheep. REST IN PEACE CHRISTOPHER 🙏

This is like Christmas Day! (Pun intended!) That's how it always feels when I stumble onto a previously unseen Hitchens debate! (Although it breaks my heart to see him this way. He had been diagnosed with oesophagal cancer almost a year to the day of this debate (June 10th 2010) and was probably undergoing treatment at the time of this taping. You can see and hear the toll it has taken if you have even a passing knowledge of this incredible orator and thinker. But THIS is what he lived for...the conversation...the debate....the rhetorical battle....I am positive it would have taken MUCH more than Stage 4 Cancer to keep him from the contest. R.I.P Sir.)

Hitch was the Man!

Brummett, bummed it.

Hitch we do miss you old lad, and some as I are Pagans sure I have your books Hitch did not believe in an after life who knows i would like him to be wrong so very soon I could sit by him over the STYX )O(

who is kristover bitchens

Psalm 14:1 King James Version 14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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10:21: "Excuse me when I take a sip of water" My heart😥💜

The empowerment of women? Translation: the legal ability to kill Innocents

"black culture is in dialogue or conversation with a number of other spaces along the cultural repertoire"? More post modernist gibberish. Someone want to explain that statement? Maybe she should start with a definition of 'culture' ... That would seem to be pretty crucial in this context.

Where’s Kitchener? Canada? 🍁

Wow. That’s a lot to take in in 10 minutes. Now I feel like I have to swot up on TS Elliott!

Talk for talks sake boring

Miss you Hitch x )O( but got ya books he he and I am a Pagan

Hitchens was the most gifted wordsmith dare I say in the entire anglophone world that ever lived

Every advancement of christianity from it's darkest point was done through secular thought. Even if someone is religious, any thought which contradicts their religious tradition is secular. So when someone, who remains religious, breaks their religious tradition to do something more kind or more humane than their existing religion would have them do, even if it is then incorporated into their religion (which is the only way a religion ever advances) and taught as part of their religion, it is still a secular advancement. It is the secularization of religious morality that has advanced religion beyond being an opiate for the working class. When someone says that religious belief compels them to do something good, you have to consider whether the "good" thing they are compelled to do is even derived from religion or from secular thought before you even acknowledge the fact that doing something good or refraining from causing harm for fear of punishment is not the same as being a good person. A good person does good and avoids causing harm for love of causing joy and well-being for other people and a distaste for causing harm. Quite frankly, I would argue that all morality is secular since it is evident that all religions are inventions and, thus, all of the initial morals of any religion existed in the minds of the religions' inventors before inventing their religion and all advancements to religious morality were made through secular thought.

Man the energy after the crowd stands one by one And then all in the honor of Christopher hitchens especially while suffering tremendously if I do say so myself, can’t be replicated

Now that last bit of hitchens was POWERFUL. Made the professor throw his hands up in receding from his position. Can’t get enough of this man HITCHENS!

The pattern I find is the presence or absence of doubt or curiosity. These are necessary for the ability to think instead of reacting. Reacting is nature and it is natural. To gain clarity and to modulate thought and feeling, we must do more that simply react. Feeling is no more natural than thought in this regard, and no one can escape living on gut alone, thrown around by happenstance, without cultivating better ways to understand self and others and the world.

This is pure gold in all that he said in such a short time here. He pronounced his speaking words perfectly and quickly without stumble or stutter. This is what a genius sounds like if anyone wants an example.

My goodness Christopher what a man you are

..define, soup kitchen.. (Poverty)

.. Not knowledge you know.. . It's knowledge you become..

..a legend in his own mind...🤜🤛

..dome us..

.find as fuck.