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    Philosophics on Translation Troubles: Language and the Evasion of MeaningMay 30, 2026

    True enough. Disney does tend to F up most things it touches. I found this history after I read your…

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    nickdruryfad63dc877 on Translation Troubles: Language and the Evasion of MeaningMay 30, 2026

    Your comments about Pooh apply to the Americanisation of Pooh by Disney - which I have always thought wrong ....

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    Black Skin, White Masks, Chapter 5 – Philosophics on Fanon’s PsychologyMay 23, 2026

    […] I complained about the psychoanalytic approach Fanon employed in Black Skin, White Masks, Chapter 4, The So-Called Dependency Complex…

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    Black Skin, White Masks, Chapter 5 – Philosophics on Path Less TravelledMay 23, 2026

    […] In the end, we may both at least tacitly agree that colonialism, and the Enlightenment more generally, was not…

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    Philosophics on Snuff, a Study in Ontological GrammarMay 18, 2026

    I can see why the ontology of difference is appealing. It resists reducing the encounter to identity, diagnosis, model, or…

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