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Monica Carroll

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Writer’s block (ii)

by Monica Carroll on 09/04/201909/04/2019

What are the conditions of a writing breakthrough?

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Capacity, Desire, Writer's block, Writing

“So the days pass and nothing is done”

by Monica Carroll on 02/04/201901/04/2019

A quote from Joseph Conrad

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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

Epistemological concussion and masochism

by Monica Carroll on 04/01/201904/01/2019

Can knowledge and experience ever reflect each other?

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Masochism, Pain, Sadism, Seeing, 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 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

Opening into the dog; how phenomenology gives us fresh eyes

by Monica Carroll on 19/11/201815/11/2018

Phenomenology can seem like a lot of long words and concepts but it’s really a process for seeing the world as it is.

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Husserl, Intentionality, Perception, Phenomenology, Philosophy of mind, Seeing, Trust

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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