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		<title>Cute research on the minds of babies and by extension, us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This&#8217;ll be a temporary research blog for now I&#8217;ve decided (sorry tblogs are in such a mess &#8211; will sort out when I can &#8211; I need internet at home). A minor research point at the moment but I intend to collate more research on the thought and thinking side of consciousness/evolution as it&#8217;s another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5489&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atheistic creation (my take on Creation, Quantum style)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m telling you we need a theosophy for the West &#8211; although perhaps Dawn of the Dead, or even Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, will be recognised in time. Well here‘s my contribution (I would say ’little’ contribution but it aint little)… In the beginning there was God, which is to say awareness, potentially also imagination, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5429&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Civilization: MIT Research Team Predicts Global Economic Collapse and Precipitous Population Decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Talesfromthelou&#039;s Blog: Peak Civilization: MIT Research Team Predicts Global Economic Collapse and Precipitous Population Decline. &#8220;We can expect a paradigm shift unlike any we have seen before in human history – one that will not only collapse the economies of the world, but will cause food and energy production to decrease so significantly that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5425&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The global theology of Science (genetic mutations + brains = more facebook friends)</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/the-global-theology-of-science-genetic-mutations-brains-more-facebook-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Asphar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just another little note for this temporary &#8216;little irate note&#8217; blog. (I gave up smoking with ease: now I do so with less ease.)  A study reported by Science Daily reveals that the more prefrontal cortex you have determines how many friends you have. Not so! It shows either this or that the brain develops [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5418&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rioters report reveals 500,000 forgotten London families, but polls reveal the UK is awakening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; This is just a note. News from the BBC [1] and Populous/Inependent poll [2]: just posting on this old blog for now (I prefer it! Might have to move back at some point)&#8230;Cameron spoke this summer of mindless thuggery, senseless criminality etc: panel chairman of a new report out today, Darra Singh, instead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5415&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Radical philosophy vs. the Old Consciousness: what role might it have? by Aaron Asphar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radical philosophy vs. the Old Consciousness: what role might it have? by Aaron Asphar. Filed under: All posts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5383&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amana Silbernagel&#8217;s poetry&#8230;Transmissions Outside the Teaching</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/amana-silbernagels-poetry-transmissions-outside-the-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really can&#8217;t wait to read this personally &#8211; the sublime in contemporary poetry is a very rare thing I find but many of her poems have had this impact on me: one of total emotional engagement and self-loss, and such poems never read the same way twice and never lose their sublime quality. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5378&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please visit/follow my new site!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.aaronasphar.com &#8211; the only reason I say so is my nearest + dearest readers + correspondences hadn&#8217;t found my site so here&#8217;s a louder message. I have been posting quite allot of new work I&#8217;ve done but there&#8217;s tonnes more, and while some is/was patchy I&#8217;m making an effort now to keep everything on top [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5366&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The end of ends!</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/the-end-of-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting a new – not just with writing but with life. The book I was writing joyously exploded into a million things – it is no more. All my work must imminently be its own ends, not a means to an ends, and not my ends but its own ends. I was aware my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5276&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy of the origin of civilization</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/philosophy-of-the-origin-of-civilization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Asphar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Also published on Brave New World] I suggest none of us can understand ourselves without understanding, in a simple poetic or mythological language, the whole of our history, and religion used to serve this role. We must do so again if we are to attain what Hegel calls absolute knowing, what Marx called universal social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5253&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sick fragments (2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been going through old things throwing things away etc, and as I have no TV or internet it’s hard not to delve into things: I found a notebook with aphorisms in which I wrote when I was at the beginning (i.e. first 6 months or so) of anorexia/bulimia: I was really ill, emotionally as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5237&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last of these fragments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I say last ‘cus these fragments are suggestive of the turning point in my thinking onto the gravity of the present: I knew something of late has been ‘missing’, my  social reality, and much of this I put down to difficult circumstances leading me to void the heavy stuff: now I realize now that my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5238&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy of &#8216;Woman&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/philosophy-of-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Published also on Brave New World] I&#8217;ve been reading/researching on psychoanalysis and religion, and it really makes much more sense of the universe to consider woman as the figure of god, and the killing of the father as actually the killing of the mother by the father, especially as women were (often/usually) the deities and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5223&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eternal recurrance, creative nothing, black sun</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/eternal-recurrance-creative-nothing-black-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Asphar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello: I had some imminent experience of the above, and this serves also to explain why much of the work here is taken off&#8230; I had this gnawing bad conscience about something elusive, the kind of thing our ego might try to poke around and guess at, or otherwise try and dispose of, but I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=5000&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The shaping of the Western subject: reformation, subject-object alienation, social negation, self-hate + to the collapse of ‘social reality’</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/the-shaping-of-the-western-subject-reformation-subject-object-alienation-social-negation-self-hate-to-the-collapse-of-%e2%80%98social-reality%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Asphar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The post title infers, very roughly, the genealogical relations in the development of contemporary Western self-alienated subjectivity that I try to elucidate here. I emerge from a horrendous headache/vomiting sickness (not &#8216;self-inflicted&#8217;) so I hope this remains comprehensible (it&#8217;s hard for me to tell right now). I relate religions alienation, the polarization of subject-object, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=4868&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The human is poetic: Amanda Silbernagel on yr soul (poem) and its negation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Asphar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These quotes/notes relate to Amanda Silbernagel&#8217;s recent post Etymology of Poet (on the bastardization/devastation of the word) – full text here and at the end. This is an important paper for me: she discusses negation in the family, an issue I was feeling the need to think on: and the way she extends this into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=4859&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism + reification vs. emotion + revolution*</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/capitalism-reification-vs-dtounement-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Asphar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At each moment in socially alienated communication, you either express your value through the other hence negate them, or give form to the expression of the others value hence are turned into a thing. * To overcome our social enslavement it is obvious each of us will have to recognise that this world is us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=4787&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great essay by Matthew Segall &#8220;The Psychoanalysis of Philosophy: Towards the Eroticization of Logos&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/great-essay-by-david-segall-the-psychoanalysis-of-philosophy-towards-the-eroticization-of-logos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Asphar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this &#8211; he&#8217;s bringing critical theory and psychoanalysis into the fold for a philosophy of emotional-social liberation, much affinity with the arguments of Castoriadis and Jung, and me (and Amanda Silbernagel &#8211; see recent post): bellow are a few choice quotes, and link to full text here (The Psychoanalysis of Philosophy: Towards the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=4755&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Western mental illness betrays how social, emotional and economic violence is ideologically inverted into personal faliure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to find some videos which help bring to light the theological character of our &#8216;mental health&#8217; notion, which, along with crime, illness and death, is like the development of the old Christian &#8216;evil&#8217; posited against the good redeemer: society, progress, the kingdom of wealth, and all its little angels like pharmaceutical companies, business [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=4701&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The road-block to our Western social self-emancipation: our mental health</title>
		<link>http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/the-road-block-to-our-western-social-self-emancipation-our-mental-health-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Asphar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are in a crisis here in the UK but things are worse in the US: we are profoundly miserable historically but lack a cultural memory to know this, and our response has been to cling ever tighter to that which makes us miserable. Let us recall that the massive rise in &#8216;mental health problems&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronasphar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18621030&#038;post=4600&#038;subd=aaronasphar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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