Comments by "harvey young" (@harveyyoung3423) on "Black Only Theatre: An Anti-White Colour Bar? Segregation Comes to UK" video.

  1. Goodness. I used to go to the theatre a lot in the 1980's and 90's. Carl Benjamin at 7:00 mins talks about people in this world pushing boundaries. I mean its not going to immediately help a career theatre person, those ever changing people who think this world is their birth right, will probably destroy any career prospects. Thing is the real artists are not these money makers or political activists. After a time people just get board of watching the same message, with the same techniques, the same ideology. When people get board they start to reflect and to Critique. Its just what humans are like. It seems to me the Critical Race Theory is definitely a "settled science", and an important, but neglected, aspect of Kant's Critical Philosophy is Critique can only happen when the object of Critique has become "completed science". What this means is difficult to express, but i think it is when the categorical logic epistemic field under Critique exhibits certain kind of "closure". By analogy perhaps how mathematics sought to do this kind of closure from late 19th to early 20th century because of the collapse of its long held foundations. Closure here can mean setting up a axiom system like Z-F Set Theory structure in which all past present and future mathematics will be capturable and provable from the axioms, ie the historical autobiographical context of (de facto) discovery and meaning will be retroactively re-placed under the axiomatic system. This system then is what "now" grants it de jure status, and also at once delimits any future mathematics as de jure if and only if it is translatable into the axioms. This is from developments in the theory of equations from Galois in early 19th century France, Groupe theory and Category theory to the new axiomatic approach. This takes very seriously notions like complete, free of contradiction decidable and provable.(see David Webb on axioms and Jean Cavesse) it struck me that Kant had grasped the relationships between the formation of a totality a "community" of propositions in logical relations, and transcendental Critique and reflection. Indeed the second half of the Critique of Pure Reason: the dialectic is constantly describing the accomplishment of totality and completeness in the set up of dialectic oppositions for transcendental Critique. This might invite an intuition of a relation between closed system of rules boredom and Critique. difficult to prove transcendental because how could we make boredom into a system or as a moment in some psychological system. I think before i could do a transcendental Critique of this opposition, boredom would have to be presented as field or as in a field with other states and references. One thing is "The play is boring" cannot be a empirical psychological claim, at least because boredom here has to have intentionally into the play. I am board of this "play". But can i be jsut bored without a reference, board with myself maybe. One thing is this mechanical reproduction of the same, for sure this is not in the tradition of the real artists like Orson Welles. Thing is I've seen a few things form the world you are discussing recently that suggest a moment of reflection and Critique is happening here too. I don't want to name names, but there is beginning from the inside a reflection and Critique of this sort but not a written Critique like the theatre political criticism industry, but new stories by black writers look like they are themselves running the ideology to totality where in it transcendentally undermines its own base of Critique. They do this in the story by just filling the blank space with what should be categorically included in the story to be complete but which also the inclusion of it destroys its basis. These are stories and plays not reviews or academic papers. Theatre is particularly suited to Critique because of its architectural structure. Perhaps jsut perhaps such reflection and Critique is best done exclusively with a closure and delimiting of the audience, because the context say Critical race theory specifically intends that group. That is the Critique must "begin" with an isomorphism of content and audience to work, reference, architecture and content as opposed to form and content dichotomy. Breaking the fourth wall and so on. One thing i think is that these totality systems with there difficult intentionally must be the condition of the possibility of a transcendental Critique (upon the conditions of possibility). I might here mean then role of Kant's Concepts of reflection in judgment held by Douglas Burnham as the first reflections before Critical reflection have theatrical architectural analogues. the very general shape of Critique is the necessary closure of the system and the necessary need for a transcendent intention to it, and then the contradiction that follows from the attempt to combine these two. Critique disrupts the basis of both to arrive and a new orientation. Personally i think this why Sellers considered much of his work a kind of failure, not because it wasn't taken up at the time, but that the field of quantification logic and the "opposed" modal logics were not at the time complete. You know you cannot collapse the house of cards until its finished being constructed.
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  2. Oh no 8:00 mins "we need a play about Alfred The Great". That is exactly what i am trying to avoid the incongruous occupation of the Dead White male Heroes into the Critical Race theory unnamed un-place in the field. Transcendental philosophy here can avoid this trap. Indeed "waiting for the system to become complete and closed, might be political error in that it might just fail its reflection and go forwards as formulae totalitarianism. Thus there is a role for external, Critique but not to interprite the self here as the structural empty place the self have made for it. Obviously they world haver anticipated this decades ago, might even be the strategy trap for you. British history is obviously important but not though copying the structure and actions of Critical Racer theory. I imagine soon there will be courses on Britishness not just as the bad guys. it might even be organised as new part of the Critical race theory department. the thing is for a proper Conservative orientation we must grasp the immediate the here not some course on Alfred The Great. Unlike supporter as of the left who have the job of deconstructing and reconstructing history courses, for us the many of the recent historical players are all still here. I taught a course many years ago that involved the history of political thought from Hobbes to the present day. When i got the post war period it was a bit strange because all the students were retired. They told me all about London in the second world war, the rise of socialism and great examples for the old Rawls Nozick debate of the 1970s on wards. Immediacy not mediation. That's the difference (my use of John McDowell perhaps), that's the solution to the Dialectic of critique.
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  3. Peter at 9:00 mins "rule" an imperative not "rules", nice. Well there is the totality coming down the line a economic political instructionally organised telos legitimacy, that could leave out a whole world or worlds. But Right as both necessary for this as a system also "contains" an empty or silent part by negation and limits conceptual logic. But now the Right dos not oppose the risk of totalitarianism telos a, rather it mealy places the absence in the empire telos as a new notions of justice expanded beyond limited groups. This is Derrida stuff the endless revolutions, because the outside here is only "in" the system as rights negative and so the concepts in the system are negated to place the absence. Problem is the Being of the absent is a negation over concepts only, we might say not its essence but its derivative and dependent being on its other the original telos. This is all very heavy stuff across Kant Hegel Wittgenstein's dealing with limit boundary etc. But this is only to express it within Quantification logic not model logic too, and others like speech. When we look at modality the totality is predictable as process before we get to the closure. Thus as Hegel says the modality logic of process allows moves that are inexpressible, excepts as negations, for the quantification logic. Which mere negations are unsatisfactory. over. infra structure of universal logic must be model. the "outside of modal logic is not a negation but an imagined act angle in the past. That there is an angle means a counterfactual but this is unknow and not capturable by universal negation or by imagining exploiting a counterfactual space though the modality of possibility as an act in the past that was a facto but could be other wise though modal possibility not necessity if where a factual even act happened. these are two very different "outside then". neither of which survive mush scrutiny. Transcendental reflection is motivated from this/these paradox in the logic(s) that are inexpressible in those same logics. There are many metaphysical ways into this dichotomy expression. Both though say the approaching totality bell is toiling, and it toils for you: resist resist, press the metal to the floor..
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  4. if we're talking theatre then i went to loads of them all good some better than good. Then one day I saw Richard Harris on stage and it blew my mind. only then did i realise what theatre is meant to be. Kind of spoilt the pitch though, for the rest of my theatre visits, and my diminishing returns. Maybe for audiences like for artist you should never see the perfect overpowering performance live. Lie people who saw Hendrix live, if you get them to talk about that then invariably they never really talk about the other great bands they saw. as if Hendrix has blown all the others out of memory. next time i will ask about Hendrix after they've told, me about other great bands they saw. Cos if you let them go on about Hendrix they seem to loose all motivation to talk about the others properly. do you remember I think a play(?) and then a TV movie about two kids in the 60's who try and see George Best playing for Man U against Liverpool. No spoilers.
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  5. Ha ha "we will turn theatre into Cognitive behavioural therapy, and cognitive behavioural therapy into theatre." my, just a couple of substations to the original.
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  6. Bob Dylan substitution! But it was a really performance and a great movie, well i thought so.
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  7. Not singing the national anthem could be the middle class British thing or English thing where you have to do understatement to make it look like you have real control by being relaxed. There was lot of "agro" (over class for one thing) in the Bloomsbury Group. But i think the anti British or not Jingoistic is probably cos its just after the first world war. I used to have my seminars in their old room. The one where T.S. Eliot discussed Bradley with Russell and Wittgenstein. One day someone asked the tutor to explain what Russell meant by logical atom, and the tutor got a chalk and did a dot on the blackboard and then rubbed it off, and then said that was Russell's reply to that question in here and on the very same blackboard. I was just beginning in philosophy and thought the tutor was recalling actually being there at the time!
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  8. At 24:00 mins on, I think me and Carl Benjamin are on the same page here. That is the preface for a lot of very hard work my friend. Something similar took down Sellers, its not going to take me down.
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  9. There is a continuous line from the German Aristocracy starting to send their kids to University in late 18th early 19th century, and the middle class University graduates now. The German Aristocracy were the first to realise that land would no longer provide the necessary wealth differential as it had done from Feudalism, because the of the rise of the Merchant and industrial owning classes. The Hell Fire Clubs were the minority of kids who couldn't be bothered or had not the capacity to read Kant at the age of 13, or stay awake though one of Hegel's lectures. The Aristocracy wanted to train the kids to be civil servants sin the dream of a unified Germany. A hundred years later like 3-4 generation Germany unified with the Aristocratic Civil servant class would lead the world in science philosophy and everything else. What could possibly go wrong?
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