@iggidigit formal classification systems inadvertently creating meaningful relationships between objects rather than meaning originating from the objects being classified. very foucaultian
@nikstankovic_ Cars, houses, yachts, what more do they need? And would it be beneficial to society to let them buy what they're currently unable or prevented from buying?
@KatieD_PhD why not? this is clearly a structural issue. im sure redesigning an entire course from the ground up wasnt at the top of their to do list. expecting individual solutions without any compensation for time and effort, i dont blame them
@maxwelltani the wsj understands foucault’s idea of the author-function: the authority of the text lies more on the social standing and reputation of the author, not within the text itself.
@dee_of_e so essentially the critics of humanism are watching the Avengers without having seen any prior movies or knowing anything about capeshit and then complaining that it's dumb and they don't get it when glut shitto suddenly appears?
@BulkingtonBooks I don't think I'd be able to handle the knowledge that a superstar athlete with DFW's level of profundity exists out there. They would need to be destroyed.
@nise_yoshimi I think it also has to do with the genre's newness. Readers had to be introduced to these details/tropes that we're very familiar with today. What once required explicit explanation can now be conveyed through a few recognizable symbols.