dumbØbject #52: "Real radicals, we might conclude, make things."

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"For too long, being "radical" in philosophy has meant writing and talking incessantly, theorizing ideas so big that they can never be concretized but only marked with threatening definite article ("the political," "the other," "the neighbor," "the animal"). For too long, philosophers have spun waste like a goldfish's sphincter, rather than spinning yarn like a charka. Whether or not the real radical philosophers march or protest or run for office in addition to writing inscrutable tomes–this is a question we can, perhaps, leave aside. Real radicals, we might conclude, make things. Examples aren't hard to find, and some even come from scholars who might be willing to call themselves philosophers. " Ian Bogost, Alien Phenomenology: Or What It's Like to Be a Thing, University of Minnesota Press.