@PagliaQuotes @IanTayl23605350 “To recapture the naive response of the casual fan is the first step towards intelligent appreciation of most [art …] One cannot profitably stop there; but one cannot sensibly begin anywhere else.” - Victor Perkins
@Prof_Cooper For the second image, didn’t The Simpsons already do this, in a way? https://t.co/U5O4mkbnzi Not saying you couldn’t do a better job of course!
@ProfSteveFuller Doesn’t that eventually beg the question of whether Deconstructionism begets an ideology? (I know not all relentless criticism of all that exists will be intended, or interpreted, in a Deconstructionist manner, but still..)
@ProfSteveFuller Sounds like the endowment effect in behavioural economics - you value something more once you realise it’s notionally yours anyway or aligned with what you’re doing. Raises some troubling questions about novelty, acquisition and value.
@ProfSteveFuller@jimmyfallon I’ve always been a big fan of American pro wrestling, and - with a few exceptions - you can’t get anyone to cheer a good guy until they’ve been a believable bad guy first.
@ProfSteveFuller In regards to your original post btw, I picked up a Źižek book for the first time in about 2011 when I was looking for this in Warwick library. Blame the librarian I guess!
@ProfSteveFuller You’ll know 100x better than me what constitutes a good guesstimate on sales, but would any of his books say, since the pandemic, sell any more than 10,000 print copies nationwide in the first month? I can’t believe they would.
@ProfSteveFuller That sounds right. Even the deftest and most well intended effort to clarify will always obscure by necessity, because the effort to ‘deepen’ is primarily an act of creation. The interesting things get said by accident or by elision.
@ProfSteveFuller This is why I like the Lacanian/Althusserian paradigm. You get to have your cake and eat it. The past is transcended by remembering it. The only way it stays with you is if you try to pretend it doesn’t exist - the anxiety of influence.
@ProfSteveFuller A great example is when Roman centurions found Archimedes doing calculations in the sand after their occupation of Greece. They demanded he stop and when he refused, telling them it was important work, a centurion cut off his head. No mediating language between power and science.
@ProfSteveFuller The impressions of others end up being constitutive and regulative of the future context(s) in which your achievements, or lack of, will be iterable. It’s not always easy to remember this in advance.
@ProfSteveFuller Even if you think the impressions of others are subjectively false, or impressions generally don’t measure up to some objective standard, they have to be taken every bit as seriously as whatever you’re serious/earnest about. It’s a philosophical error, as much as a strategic one.