http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2007/03/27/is-general-intellectual-friendship/ A working notebook Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2007/03/27/is-general-intellectual-friendship/#comment-1324 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:26:30 +0100 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2007/03/27/is-general-intellectual-friendship/#comment-1324 Thanks Klumbis. I was thinking about D&G and Hardt&Negri when I wrote this, among other stuff. The quote is nice (I really should finish that damn book). Friendship conditions thought, at least philosophical thought. That means that insofar as some conditions obtain (thought=intellect, friendship=a relation between multiples, a relation between multiples=generality) then at a minimum insofar as philosophy exists and at least within philosophy intellect is always already general. Thanks Klumbis. I was thinking about D&G and Hardt&Negri when I wrote this, among other stuff. The quote is nice (I really should finish that damn book). Friendship conditions thought, at least philosophical thought. That means that insofar as some conditions obtain (thought=intellect, friendship=a relation between multiples, a relation between multiples=generality) then at a minimum insofar as philosophy exists and at least within philosophy intellect is always already general.

]]> http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2007/03/27/is-general-intellectual-friendship/#comment-1309 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:46:33 +0100 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2007/03/27/is-general-intellectual-friendship/#comment-1309 Well said, Nate. Lately I've been re-reading What is Philosophy?, which, I had forgotten, begins with a discussion of philosophic friends: "Wisdom has changed a great deal. It is even more difficult to know what 'friend' signifies, even and especially among the Greeks. Does it designate a type of competent intimacy, a sort of material taste and potentiality, like that of the joiner with wood--is the potential of wood latent in the good joiner; is he the friend of the wood? THe question is important because the friend who appears in philosophy no longer stands for an extrinsic persona, and example or empirical circumstance, but rather for a presence that is intrinsic to thought, a condition of possibility of thought itself, a living category, a transcendental lived reality." (D&G 1994: 3) That's what 'what in the hell is...' means to me. Well said, Nate. Lately I’ve been re-reading What is Philosophy?, which, I had forgotten, begins with a discussion of philosophic friends:
“Wisdom has changed a great deal. It is even more difficult to know what ‘friend’ signifies, even and especially among the Greeks. Does it designate a type of competent intimacy, a sort of material taste and potentiality, like that of the joiner with wood–is the potential of wood latent in the good joiner; is he the friend of the wood? THe question is important because the friend who appears in philosophy no longer stands for an extrinsic persona, and example or empirical circumstance, but rather for a presence that is intrinsic to thought, a condition of possibility of thought itself, a living category, a transcendental lived reality.” (D&G 1994: 3)
That’s what ‘what in the hell is…’ means to me.

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