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Re:Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thin... by whimsicalism on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:25AM (#26078504)
> The irony.

It's only ironic if you haven't read this so called "obscurantist pseudophilosophy." This sentence hardly holds a candle to the writings of someone like Deleuze or Derrida.

Re:Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thin... by karaterobot on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:01AM (#26079022)
Agreed with this. Also, to give the author of the Psyche article credit, he defined what he meant by obscurantist philosophy earlier in the article. In my fairly limited reading of them, Foucault, Derrida, et al., don't always do this, even when the terms they use are much less self-explanatory than this one.
Re:Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thin... by gmtx725 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:43PM (#26080384)
I admit Deleuze's writing is hard work but he has some really interesting metaphysical ideas linked to complexity and systems theory, try reading Manuel DeLanda for a more accessible introduction