Policing meaning and eavesdropping on being...

Note: technical problems resulted in this duplication, but as Eric's additions are in fact very funny, we'll leave both versions up.

[Posting on behalf of Protevi; the title of this post is Schliesser's--ES.]

Deleuze gives a technical sense of "stupid" (bête) in Chapter 3 of Difference and Repetition: the inability to distinguish the ordinary and trivial from the singular and important. But that's not the only sense of stupid this column displays: the everyday sense of "not very smart" also works. 

Beyond the absurdly anachronistic attempted reduction of AP ['AP' = Analytical Philosophy--ES] to language analysis -- thus missing the singular moment of the revival of analytic metaphysics -- there is this head scratcher:

"In the 18th century, Immanuel Kant posited ideas such as "categories of the mind" and "transcendental apperception" that were themselves beyond philosophical interrogation..."

To use some netspeak: Rlly? Srsly? WTF? 

Read for yourself, there's plenty more like that. 

Let me just take this occasion to formally disavow any alignment with these jokers [not to be confused with the supervillian in the Batman series--] and to say that this proud CP person ['CP' = Continental Philosophy] does not take them to be representative of any movement to which I belong.

Or to return to my beloved snark idiom, to put it in the immortal words of Elaine Benes: "That stuff is weak. I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be selling it."