following zizek's view on language in "Violence": while language is a fundamentally violent act of flattening an object to a frozen, isolated image, replacing its immediacy with paratextual implications not inherent in the object (i.e. "gold" connotes greed/wealth & not itself),
@austrosillyism I've been reading some lit on this, but so much of it feels so repetitive. like it usually boils down to tacit knowledge, catallaxy, and entrepreneurial discovery. lavoie's at least a little more fun to read because of his later hermeneutics
@johnbyronkuhner I remember buying the enneads in small town ohio about a year ago. while I haven't been able to crack, I enjoy opening up to a random passage and taking it in
@DrDavidVernon genuine question: what does it look like to write hundreds of pages about music? like I'm struggling to imagine what it's like just from pure unfamiliarity with the genre.
also, how do you write so many books on so many figures???
@rssmrm@abbapogu you should also check out arsenault's recent On Enemies and Venison from becoming press, which both challenges hui's cosmotechnics and extends it to the aztecs