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Gather from rills that run with honey

by Monica Carroll on 22/04/201922/04/2019

Shall we blame the writer for writer’s block?

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Capacity, Description, Phenomenology, Plato, Poetry, Writer's block, Writing

Some notes on disgust

by Monica Carroll on 05/02/201905/02/2019

How can we talk about disgust in a way that matches the force of it as an experience?

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Description, Disgust, Imagination, Materiality, Phenomenology, Sensation, Writing

Why did we hurt sadism?

by Monica Carroll on 31/12/201831/12/2018

What must phenomenology do to be able to see past difficult cultural frameworks to the experience of things themselves?

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Description, Fiction, Imagination, Pain, Sadism, Writing

Is the writing the philosophy, or the object of a philosophical process?

by Monica Carroll on 18/12/201812/12/2018

Writing in phenomenology is Ausdruck, not a result.

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Description, Husserl, Phenomenology, Writing

Is philosophy a result or a process? A done thing or a doing?

by Monica Carroll on 12/12/201812/12/2018

Messy, difficult and inconsistent. That is good philosophy.

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Description, Phenomenology, Writing

What can a phenomenologist see when they look at the world?

by Monica Carroll on 05/12/201805/12/2018

Want something for free? The world, the oyster, are given to you. Giveness is a quality of the world bestowed to anyone who cares to perceive.

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Description, Gegebenheit, Giveness, Perception, Phenomenology, Seeing, Writing

Is pain a pleasure through ‘some strange alchemy’?

by Monica Carroll on 26/11/201824/11/2018

To write a defence of masochism is a brave and difficult task. Weak claims about pain and pleasure undermine the effort.

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Description, Husserl, Pain, Phenomenology, Writing

How does phenomenology generate knowledge?

by Monica Carroll on 12/11/201805/11/2018

Too often, phenomenology is made into a step-by-step process that claims a knowledge outcome. Knowledge, however, in a phenomenological study, is an altogether different beast.

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Description, Husserl, Phenomenology, Writing

What can you do with a Stupid Detector?

by Monica Carroll on 05/11/201805/11/2018

A lot of what is ‘peer-reviewed’ and published as phenomenology is, my stupid detector reports, stupid. But why?

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Description, Husserl, Phenomenology, Philosophy of mind, Trust, Writing

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