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I think facts are assertions that appear grounded from the perspective from which they were asserted.
'Postmodernism' as Existential Threat.
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To lose faith in the ground is, in a sense, to lose the capability of sustaining factuality. Facts become less tenable, if there isn't a place for them to place their bags.
Arguably why things get so multi-faceted and complicated with something like post-structuralism. So long as we thought meaning was a more or less fixed thing, asserting and believing facts were simpler things altogether, no?
Arguably why things get so multi-faceted and complicated with something like post-structuralism. So long as we thought meaning was a more or less fixed thing, asserting and believing facts were simpler things altogether, no?
Mr. Tea
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Not exactly. I'd say truths are necessarily true, but facts are only contingently true.
sus
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I think the issue is that Sturgeon's Law applies here as it does everywhere.
The fact that the linguistic complexity makes it harder to evaluate and tell the worthwhile 10% from the trash 90% probably compounds the issue.
But there's some very good "postmodern" thought: Lyotard, Kuhn, Bourdieu, Butler to name a few. Probably "poststructural" is a better word in thinking about the late 20th C continental philosophy movement, reserving "postmodern" for a general sensibility of cultural production, from art to film to literature.
I haven't made my mind up about Derrida. Pretty sure Baudrillard had some good ideas but is an overly pessimistic twat and generally sucks. Lacan may or may not have been a charlatan who pulled the hood over the intellectual ruling class (I like this conspiracy quite a bit). But hey, psychoanalysis really resonates for some people! Just because it comes off to me like an alien meaning system invented by crazy sex addicts doesn't mean it isn't a good map of some psychologies.
The fact that the linguistic complexity makes it harder to evaluate and tell the worthwhile 10% from the trash 90% probably compounds the issue.
But there's some very good "postmodern" thought: Lyotard, Kuhn, Bourdieu, Butler to name a few. Probably "poststructural" is a better word in thinking about the late 20th C continental philosophy movement, reserving "postmodern" for a general sensibility of cultural production, from art to film to literature.
I haven't made my mind up about Derrida. Pretty sure Baudrillard had some good ideas but is an overly pessimistic twat and generally sucks. Lacan may or may not have been a charlatan who pulled the hood over the intellectual ruling class (I like this conspiracy quite a bit). But hey, psychoanalysis really resonates for some people! Just because it comes off to me like an alien meaning system invented by crazy sex addicts doesn't mean it isn't a good map of some psychologies.
Mr. Tea
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constant escape
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constant escape
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Because liberal democracy depends on consistent and central narratives? In the interest of informing/guiding the beliefs of the citizens?
vimothy
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conservative take on baudrillard: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/baudrillards-revenge/
DeLanda in his Techgnosis interview,
'As they say, the key word here is not wisdom, but caution. You don’t know what happens at bifurcations. You have absolutely no control. The smallest fluctuation can make things go wrong. The predictive power of humans and technology is nil near bifurcations. All you can do is approach carefully, because the last thing you want to do is get swallowed up by a chaotic attractor that’s too huge in phase space. As Deleuze says, “Always keep a piece of fresh land with you at all times.” Always keep a little spot where you can go back to sleep after a day of destratification. Always keep a small piece of territory, otherwise you’ll go nuts.'
De Landa Destratified - Techgnosis
This interview first appeared in Mondo 2000, Issue 8, Winter 1992 In War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa cuts through humanism and adopts the position of “robot historian.” Like a techno-Foucault, he traces the evolution of self-organizing machine consciousness under the...
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constant escape
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Yeah I think I'm already nuts. But I'm sure it can intensify, so never too late to take that advice, I suppose.
constant escape
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I think the world can use a few more benevolent nuts.
luka
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DeLanda in his Techgnosis interview,
'As they say, the key word here is not wisdom, but caution. You don’t know what happens at bifurcations. You have absolutely no control. The smallest fluctuation can make things go wrong. The predictive power of humans and technology is nil near bifurcations. All you can do is approach carefully, because the last thing you want to do is get swallowed up by a chaotic attractor that’s too huge in phase space. As Deleuze says, “Always keep a piece of fresh land with you at all times.” Always keep a little spot where you can go back to sleep after a day of destratification. Always keep a small piece of territory, otherwise you’ll go nuts.'
De Landa Destratified - Techgnosis
This interview first appeared in Mondo 2000, Issue 8, Winter 1992 In War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa cuts through humanism and adopts the position of “robot historian.” Like a techno-Foucault, he traces the evolution of self-organizing machine consciousness under the...
that is very literally switching of tracks switching of timelines switching universes... just so you know
sus
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Still thinking about how good Gaga looks here
sus
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no no no Bourdieu, obviously. we had a whole thread about this
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
Foucault 100%
I posted this in another thread like two days ago but it's equally relevant here
