Theory

[icycalm]

http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/vy2k/sans.cfm

I like this guy. From what little I've read of him, he seems quite down to earth and free from much of the bullshit that Baudrillard regularly inserts between his genuine insights. On the other hand, he's not as ambitious... You could hardly call him a philosopher. I'll be reading more of him, to be sure.

[icycalm]

http://www.nous.org.uk/Sokal.html

The chapter on Virilio is astonishing. The "philosopher of speed" is guilty of the most dismal blunders, such as confusing velocity with acceleration, or saying that electrons move at the speed of light. Worse even than this is the grotesque pretentiousness of his style. Virilio has a lot to say, but without really saying anything. He represents a type of Continental Philosophy I have come to think of as Incontinent(al) Philosophy, hallucinating on his own metaphors.

lol

I love the last line. I will probably adopt it.

[icycalm]

Okay yeah, he is a fucking charlatan:

http://books.google.com/books?id=D6jLeN ... q=&f=false

I read the first two pages. Nothing more to see here, folks.