Yes, it was about the method.
Of killing, in this case.
He said method was all there is to any form of thought worth its salt. There is a lot of actual salt being used in a good thought.
If WL were on ILP now, and we would ask him if he approves of our methods, I expect his answer woud be something like this.
Kierkegaard (it’s never easy, though. fucking dude was deep)
Heraclitus
Parmenides (not for too long, though)
Nietzsche (it gets annoying though. people want to make it about who’s the tough guy)
Abelard
Diogenes
Unamuno
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero (possibly only for Venezuelans though, was all about the philosophical underpinnings of the intersection between Africa, the injuns and the Spanish)
um…
Walter Benjamin
I’m sure there’s more. There must be more.
Baudrillard
Laurelle
Guattari (beware of commies. this one is debatable. But no, motherfucker is fun to read when that annoying putz Deleuze goes away)
Ok fine, Deleuze. For an even briefer moment than Parmenides
Hume. Hume is fine.
Foucault… I guess… He was so self-important in how he wrote… Like cmon man… Thats the thing with gays, they always want to impress people. Smart sonofabitch though.
Um…
Plate. Not anything he wrote, but it’s fun to try to imagine the type of guy he was.
I had to include Deleuze because he introduced me to Liebniz. Leibniz? Lol I always fuck it up. In that weird video he shot about the alphabet and animals. He has a pleasant arrogance. The gods of philosophy forgive him for that reason.
Damn, they took the complete video down. Here’s the intro
No you don’t, you old manipulative commie bastard. I believed you for a second when you said you thought I was worth at least three times my salary. Now I realize it’s all part of a wider communist agenda.
Goddamnit. Deleuze. He is the fold that should never have happened.
Because he’s not interested in moving forward. He is, perhaps the only, the true nerd of philosophy. He just has fun with its product. He’s like a Game of Thrones fan who just knows everything that is going on, loves it deeply.