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Self-confidence

Because of all the wonderful and extraordinary selves that are currently on display if you are bored enough to browse the Internet, it is easy to misconstrue the nature of self-confidence. Our Internet heroes have grandiose that make them seem independent. The veil of their staged independence is paper-thin, but no-one cares to lift it ...

11 April, 2017

Kamiel Choi

expectation, power, relational, self-confidence, survivor, trust

Philosophy

The power of corporations

We need to understand power, and specifically the power exercised by the agents of neoliberalism, the corporations. And it really isn't that hard. Simple dialectics: Power needs something outside itself in order to function. For example, a psychopath who tortures his victims must assume their independent ability to suffer in order to exercise his power. ...

7 April, 2015

Kamiel Choi

corporations, ideology, neoliberalist, power

Essays

Power (sketch)

Power (sketch) A neutral observer looks at human interaction between A and B. In order to understand this interaction, the decisions involved have to be explained. Let's say agent A is in control of a resource (we will call this "in power") that agent B wants. If we want to understand this interaction, we need ...

8 March, 2015

Kamiel Choi

control, power, resources

Essays

It is what it is?

Working relations are about power. You sell your labor (remuneration is essentially the primary reason for working) or else... Or else you could be reprimanded, suspended, or even - fired. That infernal metaphor is a powerful aid in the manufacturing of the worker's worry, that are designed to last until all productivity has been sucked ...

2 April, 2013

Kamiel Choi

capitalism, mechanisation, power, working

Activism

Why I like cooking

This is not a recipe blog. There are far more knowledgeable cooks maintaining interesting blogs like this one

23 August, 2011

Kamiel Choi

cooking, essay, power, psychodairy, vegetarian

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Money should have a flavor

How to start a contempary reflection about money, a reflection that should both instruct and entertain because it is bound to the format of a blog post, because it will live as an entry among millions on an internet website with a narrow time window of readership that extends not much further than two weeks ...

14 June, 2011

Kamiel Choi

currency, essay, flavor, Money, power

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September 6. Berlin attracts me again.

Night I spend on the highway Szeged - Budapest - Bratislava - Brno - Prague - Dresden - Leipzig. The car smells of bell peppers, four big sacks of Serbian bell peppers share the back seat with me. I am happy. This is the father and his son. They take me kindly to Leipzig, and ...

11 September, 2009

Kamiel Choi

Brno, Dresden, Leipzig, power, Prague, Szeged

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May 25. Weak thoughts about Power.

Open shutter =[ Floating around in the fresh water of the Laguna Apoyo, a volcanic laguna created some 20.000 years ago when a volcano completely and violently exploded, watching over the surrounding hills that seperate the laguna from Lago Nicaragua, indulging in the peaceful quiteness of the place ]= close shutter. We have captured ...

2 June, 2009

Kamiel Choi

Hindi, language, Luguna Apoyo, power

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April 20. Lazy day.

Lazy day, I skip the excursion to Cafetal where the nine-step process of coffee production is explained. Washing the beans, sorting them, peeling them, sorting the big ones out for richer coffees, fermenting, drying, roasting, grinding. It's an interesting science. So, if you're in the area, put Cafetal on your list.

I meet Alberto ...

9 May, 2009

Kamiel Choi

Buenavista, cafetal, power, writer

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April 7. Power.

Power. That is my subject. A theory of power. To start off, let's reflect on authority a little. I wrote an accepted PhD, yet you will not be accepting my authority here, as you will in the case of Heidegger, or Jesus. Why not? We leave that question open. Everybody knows what power is, and ...

11 April, 2009

Kamiel Choi

Asuncion, escapades, power, slums

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March 27.

Power and thinking. Again, I am going to tell you something from my authority as a writer of an accepted phd. To many ears it will sound like bullshit. To some ears it will be obvious. To your ears it will be like music. I am not going to tell you about the power of ...

30 March, 2009

Kamiel Choi

ad for myself, Freud, guilt, movie, power, rational

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