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Has anyone here been affected/ expect to be affected by the Muslim ban? I expect this will complicate quite a few visits this year and I'm wondering if there are plans to accommodate those affected. 
 
Additionally, are there any foreigners who are considering NOT attending a US university because of the Trump presidency and Trump policies? 

Has anyone here been affected/ expect to be affected by the Muslim ban? I expect this will complicate quite a few visits this year and I'm wondering if there are plans to accommodate those affected. 
 
Additionally, are there any foreigners who are considering NOT attending a US university because of the Trump presidency and Trump policies? 

Has anyone here been affected/ expect to be affected by the Muslim ban? I expect this will complicate quite a few visits this year and I'm wondering if there are plans to accommodate those affected. 
 
Additionally, are there any foreigners who are considering NOT attending a US university because of the Trump presidency and Trump policies? 

Starting two projects which I had begun years ago but had to put off. I'm picking up reading Shakespeare's works starting with the histories and reading again Being and Time, but this time linearly. 
 
Mad continental...

I work full time, so I can only study philosophy in the mornings, and this only on days where I don't work mornings or have the day off. 

I started working through Marx's Capital, Vol. I earlier this year. I got all the way through chapter 16 here.

Recently, I've started working on a paper on Plato. It focuses mainly on the Sophist, but builds on themes throughout his works. I stopped this because I really can't balance creative work with laboring full time, but it's still very much on my mind.

Last week, I switched back to working on Heidegger (my main area of interest) full time. I worked through his entire Introduction to Metaphysics, finishing last week. Over the last four days, I re-read "Origin of the Work of Art," reading parallel with the German. I plan to go back over some elements of this essay tomorrow.

My next project is Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy, which will probably keep me busy until school starts. If I end up finishing this, giving up in frustration, or getting distracted, I'll read Difference and Repetition, since I haven't read any Deleuze yet, and have been meaning to.

I got an M.A. offer, which I'm taking. 

It would be sick if CUNY gave people on the waitlist some indication of what's happening. I mean nbd, but it's midnight in Germany, and I can't stay up indefinitely. 

Regarding creative philosophy... We would REALLY get along. I think I've been saying this to everyone who would listen, and perhaps people I've met at the grad visits could attest to this. 
 
I heard about Hölderlin through Heidegger. Actually, I think I heard about everything through Heidegger. And being interested in Greek and German thought, Hölderlin would be a natural interest. I'm not totally in love with him, though, but I want to be. I've been meaning to read Hyperion for a few years now after a friend told me it changed his life. I'm interested to see how it goes. Very exciting. 

Guys, remember when MySpace let you pick a song for your page? Im pretty sure that I constantly switched between super emo and Dipset. Also, did anyone here ever use sconex? Also also, it would be great to keep in touch with everyone so all fb adds are very welcomed. As I have the same profile pic, everyone who already added me knows it. Those who haven't should. 

Revival? It never really had a first vival.

I'm a big fan of MySpace, personally.

I tend toward existing as non being on Facebook but I appreciate every opportunity to exist more actively.

Got a, "We're gonna offer you a slot if you're in a position to accept our offer" type email from Fordham yesterday. I don't even want to open that can of worms, so I'm declining it outright. Nothing against Fordham, but it's crunch time and I'm really drained. I just want to devote my time to Trump memes now. Today, declining Stony Brook, even though I loved them. 

Got a, "We're gonna offer you a slot if you're in a position to accept our offer" type email from Fordham yesterday. I don't even want to open that can of worms, so I'm declining it outright. Nothing against Fordham, but it's crunch time and I'm really drained. I just want to devote my time to Trump memes now. Today, declining Stony Brook, even though I loved them. 

Got a, "We're gonna offer you a slot if you're in a position to accept our offer" type email from Fordham yesterday. I don't even want to open that can of worms, so I'm declining it outright. Nothing against Fordham, but it's crunch time and I'm really drained. I just want to devote my time to Trump memes now. Today, declining Stony Brook, even though I loved them. 

Got a, "We're gonna offer you a slot if you're in a position to accept our offer" type email from Fordham yesterday. I don't even want to open that can of worms, so I'm declining it outright. Nothing against Fordham, but it's crunch time and I'm really drained. I just want to devote my time to Trump memes now. Today, declining Stony Brook, even though I loved them. 

I know what you mean, but it comes from rereading Philosophical Investigations. Plato is the other "most pleasurable thing in the world" - jumping up and down, screaming, and frothing slightly at the mouth while knowing that I'm completely warranted in doing so.

Who doesn't like Borges???
William T. Vollmann's Seven Dreams, currently on Argall, Vol. 3 (but published fourth in the series)
Jaegwon Kim's Mind in a Physical World
Gareth Evans' The Varieties of Reference

Love him. I read Baudrillard for a while and he brings up "On Exactitude in Science" at the beginning of Simulacra and Simulation. Since then I've read through a few of his short stories. 
Borges has some poems on Albrecht Dürer's engraving Ritter, Tod und Teufel that are worth reading if you haven't already.

I'm pretty sure I'd like him if I read him. I've done enough thinking about "Pierre Menard" that I should probably just read the damn story, and then some others for good measure.
We can keep playing this game, though. Anyone else for Steven Millhauser?

Anyone here like Borges? 

Hi all,
I thought it would be fun - now that the application season is juuuust about over and we're all starting to breathe and maybe even relax / read again - to have a thread to post about what we've been reading. If nothing else, maybe we can give each other some exposure to new titles and authors that we otherwise might not have stumbled across! And while I have in mind primarily philosophy, I don't feel that this thread has to be limited to philosophy proper: if there's anything you're reading that has you excited or has gotten you thinking, across the disciplines and genres, feel free to share!
I'm currently in the midst of two different books:
A Philosophy of Walking by Frederic Gros. Not necessarily philosophy in the rigorous academic sense, but I find it wonderfully engrossing and engaging, particularly for the thinker who likes to wander. I'm about at the halfway point, and so far Gros has been spending a lot of time talking about the correlation between great thinkers / writers and the activity of walking: Rosseau in Saint-Germain, Nietzsche in Sorrento, Thoreau in the forests of New England, Rimbaud in the desert... If nothing else, this book will make you want to get up and get outside, which, let's face it, is something we pasty bookworms could probably use. Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski. I love this book. Love, love, love. Rybczynski's project is to analyze the evolution of the home, or "private space", over the course of European and American history, from the Middle Ages to contemporary times. Fundamentally, he asks, At what point did building and arranging shelter evolve from a practice of physical utility to emotional utility? How new of an idea is "comfort"? (Spoiler: very new). And while this project doesn't necessarily relate to philosophy, I feel there's a lot of good fodder here for discussions of continental philosophy and the historical divides between public/private, community/individual, etc. What have you been reading?

I just declined DePaul and Duquesne. 

I just declined DePaul and Duquesne.