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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 16 days ago
What Even is Philosophy? And Who are Philosophers?
A question has been bothering me, burning itself into my mind from all of the thinking about it: "What even is philosophy, and who is a philosophy?" Let us begin with the…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • last month
Somehow Managing To Survive AI Slop and Crumbling Academia | Diary of a Failing Philosopher
Somehow, I managed to survive 30 or so days of academic hell. The hell is still with me, but I have a small breather in which I can now reflect on my inability to comprehend…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 2 months ago
I Am Failing to Keep My End of the Bargain ...
It is not often that I write about my writings on Hive. It is even less often that I write about my life beyond what I already share. Yesterday, I told my father that if I…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 2 months ago
Apparently I am a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Now...
I was asked to come back into the hallroom (or more specifically the MS Teams meeting link where I just defended my PhD). " It is with great pleasure that we can now call you…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 3 months ago
What Even is This World?
I am stuck in a strange feedback loop where what goes in does not translate to what comes out, but I am addicted to this strangeness. Yet this strangeness is not alterity…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 3 months ago
Have I Taken On Too Much? - Diary of a Struggling Philosopher
Saying no is an artform that I have not yet mastered. On a regular basis, I receive CFAs and CFPs. In academia, these are call for abstracts and call for papers, which simply are…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 4 months ago
Finally Submitting My PhD After 4 Years ...
It has been almost exactly 1520 days since I registered as a PhD student without a research proposal. I never planned to do a PhD, as I made my family promise me that they…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 5 months ago
Being Engaged for One Year and Drowning in PhD Nonsense | Diary of a Struggling Philosopher
it has been a year my dear and we have seen the world but we have also come to know the smallness of our room the thoughts plastered against the wall only to fall to the…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 5 months ago
AI ChatBots are Ruining Education Because Educational Frameworks are not Changing (Or Because Lecturers Do Not Want to Change Their Ways)
In the last six or so months, I have marked about 500 examination papers or essays. (In philosophy, we mostly write essay examinations, and most of them in South Africa are take…
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fermentedphil (77)in #academia • 6 months ago
Marking 500 Philosophy Exam Papers Will Crush Your Soul | A Philosopher's Diaries
I did not know what I expected. But my situation is also not unique by all means. I am in fact luckier than others - but that then brings me back to the first statement: I did…
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fermentedphil (77)in #wine • 8 months ago
Wine Ice Lollies, Wine Tasting, and an Art Gallery - Enjoying an Afternoon at Cavalli Wine Estate | WineMaps
we were young and drunk looking at (feeling) art with a type of pretentiousness that even I could not fathom we felt like class with wine in our gut and in our hands…
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fermentedphil (77)in #art • 8 months ago
Getting Lost in the (Post)Modern Art Scene in South Africa: Visiting the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
getting lost in the mind of the other the artist builds a world that few would understand getting lost in the mind of the other I wonder where in the world their ideas…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 8 months ago
Returning To Gerd Achenbach's Philosophical Praxis: Transcribing Margin Annotations in an Overly Long Discussion
Four months ago, I wrote a book review for Gerd Achenbach 's book, Philosophical Praxis . Since then, I have been rereading the book and various chapters in it. Back…
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fermentedphil (77)in #food • 9 months ago
Living This Very Life - Cooking and Philosophical Reflections
Do we cook (eat) to live, or do we live to cook/eat? This might seem like a rather nonsensical question. Obviously we eat to survive, we do not survive and live just to…
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fermentedphil (77)in #anniversary • 9 months ago
Three is a Half-formed Eight, On Our Way to Infinity
a drunken three halfway to eight sliced in half turned on its side and on our way to infinity a moment in time forever thrice my partner and I…
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fermentedphil (77)in #beersaturday • 9 months ago
The Incredible Soul Barrel Brewing Co. Barrel Aged and Wild Fermented Beers: On the Road Towards a 100 Beer Reviews for #BeerSaturday (Part 1)
On the cusp of a 100 Fermented Beer Reviews for #BeerSaturday You cannot in any way, shape, or form, predict the future. Life happens, and in this event what we…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 9 months ago
Another Sunset: Rethinking Thoughts
Sometimes I find myself staring at things like books and wonder, what does it all mean, what does it all matter? And how did I get to this point? These thoughts flow through my…
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urban.scout (63)in Hive Book Club • 9 months ago
Book Review: Bunny - Mona Awad
Praise Bunny is a novel that has received much praise. Even the famous writer, Margaret Atwood, gave this book a few compliments even stating that she is an “admirer” of…
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fermentedphil (77)in #wine • 10 months ago
Visiting Benguela Cove Wines: Where Art and Wine Meets – Walker Bay, Hermanus, South Africa
wine and art bleeding into each other I breath in the toxic fumes of my healing heart wine and art the combination of nothing but spite wine and art I look to the for…
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fermentedphil (77)in #reflections • 10 months ago
Small Breaks and a Year of Potential
taking small steps toward a new year breathing in breathing out another series of moons have come and gone now on the doorstep of a new year we can breathe a new…
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