Comments for TedFriedman.com http://tedfriedman.com Mythos & Logos on the Commons Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:56:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Centaur Manifesto by tedfriedman http://tedfriedman.com/centaur-manifesto/#comment-1487 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:56:19 +0000 http://tedfriedman.wordpress.com/#comment-1487 I’m a big fan of the concept of cynical reason, which Zizek borrows from Sloterdijk. I’ll have to check out Spheres.

]]> Comment on Centaur Manifesto by kunzelman http://tedfriedman.com/centaur-manifesto/#comment-1480 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:23:20 +0000 http://tedfriedman.wordpress.com/#comment-1480 Have you read any Peter Sloterdijk? I have been reading the first volume of Spheres, and it seems to be vaguely related to some of the points that you’re making. The book is very much about how myth is deployed and invested in as a bridge between the subject and the world around. That isn’t your main thrust, and it isn’t his either, but I definitely see some overlap in the middle.

]]> Comment on Ted’s Top TV of 2011 by tedfriedman http://tedfriedman.com/2012/01/01/teds-top-tv-of-2011/#comment-1351 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:00:38 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=756#comment-1351 Just started!

]]> Comment on Ted’s Top TV of 2011 by Lauryn Marie (@mslaurynmarie) http://tedfriedman.com/2012/01/01/teds-top-tv-of-2011/#comment-1302 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:21:51 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=756#comment-1302 Looks like you didn’t watch Homeland. You should get on that.

]]> Comment on The Simulation Game by Contemporary home http://tedfriedman.com/electric-dreams/electric-dreams-chapter-six-the-rise-of-the-simulation-game/#comment-1194 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:18:12 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?page_id=595#comment-1194 ah that whatever i would like may be.

]]> Comment on Renewal by terenceblake http://tedfriedman.com/2011/11/02/renewal/#comment-1062 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:59:33 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=733#comment-1062 Hello Professor Friedman,
I hope you see this one day. I would just like to tell you that I found your work quite inspiring, and I would like to indicate here a few things I wrote under the influence of reading and listening to your ideas.
http://terenceblake.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/review-a-game-of-thrones/
http://terenceblake.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/politics-of-fantasy-ted-friedman/
http://terenceblake.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/avatar-zizek-vs-the-post-jungian-vision/
I can only encourage you to continue your work. For my part, I was studying and working in an Althusserian-Lacanian philosophy department a little over 30 years ago when I discovered Deleuze and Guattari’s ANTI-OEDIPUS. This led me both to go and study in France (I attended Deleuze’s lectures for 7 years from 1980 to 1987, but also those of Foucault, Lyotard, and Michel Serres), and to begin a jungian analysis, which I pursued during the same period. I was blown over by the relation between the two, but found noone to discuss this with, and never expressed it on paper. Now over 20 years later I keep asking myself what remains for me now of that incredibly stimulating period of my life, so I was very glad indeed to discover your work and sincerely desire to see and hear more of it.

]]> Comment on Centaur Manifesto by Myth: Ideology vs Fabulation | AGENT SWARM http://tedfriedman.com/2011/01/08/364/#comment-1024 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:40:46 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=364#comment-1024 [...] since MOBY-DICK, and Ted Friedman , in his articles and his interviews and his podcast and in the book he is writing, is doing a lot to update the discussion by talking about fantasy and science-fiction [...]

]]> Comment on Centaur Manifesto by Myth: Ideology vs Fabulation | AGENT SWARM http://tedfriedman.com/centaur-manifesto/#comment-1023 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:40:35 +0000 http://tedfriedman.wordpress.com/#comment-1023 [...] course, things have come a long way since MOBY-DICK, and Ted Friedman , in his articles and his interviews and his podcast and in the book he is writing, is doing a lot [...]

]]> Comment on Renewal by terenceblake http://tedfriedman.com/2011/11/02/renewal/#comment-1021 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:02:05 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=733#comment-1021 I have just listened to your two diet soap interviews and to your podcat, and I am eager for more. I certainly think that many recent thinkers and creators are either conscious Jungians (like Deleuze) or unconscious Jungians (like Zizek). I think Philip K. Dick in VALIS is a good example of the creative interference between theology, psychology, SF and fantasy that you describe. There has been some discussion of myth on the blogosphere recently, e.g. http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/what-is-a-myth/
where the point of view is sort of “deleuzian” because of the emphasis on immanence, and the implicit identification of myth with ideology is quite clear. But I find the discussion a little one-sided. As your comparison of Barthes with Jung shows up, myth is Janus-faced, taking us in the direction of the formations of power (Barthes) or in the direction of the production of subjectivity and meaning (Deleuze). Jung is somehow able to juggle both points of view, but he needs serious updating, as Hillman began to do. I am looking forward to THE CENTAUR MANIFESTO to help me see clear in this mix. Thank you for all that you have made available.

]]> Comment on FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine by leaf vacuum http://tedfriedman.com/2010/12/08/farmville-the-garden-in-the-machine/#comment-976 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:48:17 +0000 http://tedfriedman.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-976 Great place to learn lots of new stuff. thanks

]]> Comment on Renewal by Brian Collinson http://tedfriedman.com/2011/11/02/renewal/#comment-866 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:35:15 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=733#comment-866 Sounds like it was a very good experience, Ted. I enjoyed your poem: solutio, mortificatio and the whole thing. Active imagination can be an experience of tremendous power, particularly when it involves confrontation with all the dimensions of non-ego resident with us. As Walt Whitman once put it, “I am large; I contain worlds”. All the best! ~Brian

]]> Comment on Centaur Manifesto by Don E. http://tedfriedman.com/centaur-manifesto/#comment-652 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:07:20 +0000 http://tedfriedman.wordpress.com/#comment-652 Ted, I can’t wait to get a copy in my hands! Was talking about your work last night.

Hurry up! ;)

]]> Comment on Ted’s Top 50 TV Shows of the 2000s by Cool Shooting Games http://tedfriedman.com/2011/01/09/teds-top-50-tv-shows-of-the-2000s/#comment-636 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:06:49 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=428#comment-636 Boy… it’s lists like these that remind me how little television I actually watch. A lot of these I’ve never even heard of. A few I know through watching with my kids (the bulk of my TV viewing). And some definite classics on here (Futurama, King of the Hill, the PJs)

]]> Comment on Centaur Manifesto by New Interview on the Diet Soap Philosophy Podcast | TedFriedman.com http://tedfriedman.com/2011/01/08/364/#comment-630 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:59:44 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=364#comment-630 [...] The essay of mine we talk about, “Myth, the Numinous and Cultural Studies,” is part of the book I’m working on, A Centaur Manifesto: Mythos & Logos on the Commons. [...]

]]> Comment on Tedcast by tedfriedman http://tedfriedman.com/podcast/#comment-491 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:58:11 +0000 http://tedfriedman.wordpress.com/#comment-491 Thanks!

]]> Comment on Centaur Manifesto by tedfriedman http://tedfriedman.com/centaur-manifesto/#comment-490 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:57:48 +0000 http://tedfriedman.wordpress.com/#comment-490 Definitely!

]]> Comment on Centaur Manifesto by loren http://tedfriedman.com/centaur-manifesto/#comment-486 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:25:51 +0000 http://tedfriedman.wordpress.com/#comment-486 Please tell me this book is going to be available on the Kindle.

]]> Comment on Tedcast by Essence http://tedfriedman.com/podcast/#comment-473 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:09:21 +0000 http://tedfriedman.wordpress.com/#comment-473 Wialkng in the presence of giants here. Cool thinking all around!

]]> Comment on Ted’s Top 50 Comics of the 2000s by [BLOG] Comic Artist Edu Medeiros http://tedfriedman.com/2011/01/09/teds-top-50-comics-of-the-2000s/#comment-388 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:08:20 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=416#comment-388 [...] Ted’s Top 50 Comics of the 2000s (tedfriedman.com) [...]

]]> Comment on Ted’s Top 50 Comics of the 2000s by [BLOG] Comic Artist Edu Medeiros « billyburgwick http://tedfriedman.com/2011/01/09/teds-top-50-comics-of-the-2000s/#comment-387 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:57:55 +0000 http://tedfriedman.com/?p=416#comment-387 [...] Ted’s Top 50 Comics of the 2000s (tedfriedman.com) [...]

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