Comments on: Rick Roderick Interview (1987)

By: Lena

Lena — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:09:22 +0000

Thanks to everyone who transcribed these unique Socratic lectures.
have you thought of publishing them? It would be a great asset to those lost in philosophy or hermeneutics to read them.
I came to North America from Europe and had never heard of Rick Roderick before. His lectures are probably the best thing that happened to me on this continent.

Lena

By: Amir

Amir — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:49:52 +0000

Thank you so much for your kind help

By: ctrlshift

ctrlshift — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:18:27 +0000

I did try a few speech to text programs but none of them worked very well. In the end I did it manually. It took a long time to do manually (a lot of pausing and rewinding). I recommend trying to find a way to get the majority of it done by a computer if you can and then just clean it up, I am sure it would be a lot faster that way.

By: Amir

Amir — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:54:07 +0000

I am from Iran and I am one of the professor Roderick’s fan. I am not a good listenet but I could listen in virtue of the whole texts you put. thank you so musch for the stuff here.

I have a question. can I transcribe other ttc video’s I have like what you did here?
I mean how did you changed speechs to word texts? will you kindly help?

By: Calum

Calum — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:58:05 +0000

Respect! That was quick, Prof Ctrlshift!

By: ctrlshift

ctrlshift — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:44:46 +0000

Thanks, I was wondering about that… Fixed and links updated

By: Calum

Calum — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:36:10 +0000

Thanks so much for this site. By chance yesterday I came across a vid of Rick on yt, then went to wiki (great idea of doing an entry there), read the postings on the old ‘RR & Bill Hicks’ site, then this.

The digitalising & uploading of the Rick lectures is a great achievement, the sort of philanthropic act that Rick was all about.

Just a comment for the Administrator: there’s a transcription error made twice: it’s not ‘Bloke’ but ‘Bloch’, Ernst Bloch. They’re either side (4 paras. or so) of the great Texo-Marxism comment.

I’m looking forward so much to learning from the lectures. From what I’ve seen there was a humanity about Rick that is also in Marx’s Paris manuscripts. Rick spoke about travelling thru the South & Mid West off the interstates, Marx wrote about love when he was in Paris. Rick may not have been talking about Paris, Texas but they were talking about the same thing. How beautiful the world is but how necessary it is to rid it of as much misery as we can. And that is why both men – and us too – saw the need to struggle, even when it gets so damn hard. As Ernst Bloch demanded, never give up hope.

Thanks again for all the hard work that so many of you must have done. Vamos!