About

CaFra Manchinburgh

_{PICTURE: Les Eyzies (Périgord Noir, Dordogne, France): “L’homme primitif” (1931), statue de Paul Dardé (1888-1963).}

A philosophical worker

Bio note of sorts

Started this blog in order to be able to publish without censorship in all the multiple varieties through which censorship takes place today, peer-review included – indeed ‘the peer-review system of learned journals’ in the first place, for, as Zygmunt Bauman once said, and allowing for some brave exceptions, such system is ‘calculated to prompt the author to steer the middle line between the “anonymous referees”. In this ring, caution and inoffensiveness beat daring and creativity hands down’.

That ‘middle line’ is nothing but the cowardly denial of thought. It is also a defining trait of the middle class, while a philosophical worker is of course working class – ‘class’, it should go without saying, understood subjectively, that is, in the proper Marxian sense, rather than sociologically as an objective category.

Who can then be surprised that the first and foremost victim of the peer-review system be ‘the daring of thought’? You may think CaFra Manchinburgh is immodest enough to attribute to itself the Enlightenment’s virtue par excellence. But to try is not immodesty, it is the philosophical worker’s very trade.