Gotta love that Ideal Speech community!! . . . . the din on these boards is counter argument to Habermas!! Forget Foucault *ehem* who needs his critique?! -just footnote any political thread here and Habermas's Ideal dissipates n'est pas?
LOL!!
Weeeellll I think dear old Jürgen would agree that no true communication happens on this forum (and hey, who am I to disagree)? perhaps this means that the moderators should be getting worried about a legitimation crisis though!
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But I'll admit, the constant Foucaultian attack on 'Reason' gets tiring.
Tell me about it. Actually, the thing which really annoys me about Mr Foucault is his application of the concept of epistemes ? which strikes me as a bit reductionist ? and that it's so slavishly followed by undergraduate pseuds
In a similar vein, one of my more favourite theories is Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital, and Sarah Thornton's application of it to club cultures as "subcultural capital". Here's a quick description for those who haven't met it.
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Sounds like you're knee deep and loving it . . . I'm kind of envious . . . terminal degree for fine arts is an MFA, though I keep reading theoretical work and histories on my own, I read at a much slower pace outside of student-hood, and without all the inner harrumphing and guffawing . . . lacking that sense of dire purpose . . .
Yeah, I'm drawing desperately close to actually having to graduate. I've started planning for a PhD though, so redemption is in sight. With any luck, I won't finally finish studying until I'm 30 (then I suppose I'll start having to look for an academic position somewhere, because God knows I won't be worth anything for any other job).
You can't jump boat to Art History then?
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Geffry Elton . . I'll check it out . . .
Seriously, don't go out of your way ? he's a hoary old English Whiggish positivist desperately struggling to disprove a theory he clearly doesn't have the mental equipment to understand. It's only funny if you have a slightly odd sense of humour. Here's a quick (and surprisingly sympathetic) account of his theory: http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon/elton.htm
His work on English Parliamentary/institutional history in the sixteenth and seventeenth century is generally considered to be very good though, if excruciatingly boring.
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Gilbert and George . . . ! love the idea of living with huge, very clear, nicely framed and polished -and very tastefully arranged- turds! Brilliant.
(BTW, referring to specific content w/in the pieces, not calling them names, in case you didn't know?!)
Yep, I definitely need pictures on my wall proclaiming FUCK to the world, and displaying every conceivable human bodily waste product/secretion (actually, I don't think they've done much vomit work, or at least, not that I've seen mentioned. Come to think of it, I think they haven't done dandruff or ear wax either...).
Btw: ShawnJ: Donald Sassoon is actually a complete bastard of a lecturer. I think he got very frustrated lecturing to a class of second-year British yobs, who couldn't give a flying f**k about theory, but had to do it because it was a compulsory unit. Oh well. His work is very good though! And he didn't have a nervous breakdown like one of the other lecturers (who had just started teaching, and foolishly thought that the average undergrad would actually care about the material they were supposed to be learning).
Oh ? and in terms of good sci-fi, Jack Vance is far and away my favourite author at the moment, particularly the Araminta Station series, and the Alastor trilogy. And I've always been quite fond of Gene Wolfe?
It's basically what Lyra's Oxford was to Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, but for Speaker for the Dead. Okay, but not exceptionally creative or outstanding.
And also...
I'm feeling a bit self-conscious designing websites without fully knowing XHTML or CSS, so that's my current tech literature.
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Originally posted by crazychester
Unfortunately, I wouldn't bother with the rest of the series. Very disappointing. It's so often the way. But yeah, Hyperion was a goody.
Hyperion was a real good book. I did not read others book of this author.
Originally posted by pfflam
Gotta love that Ideal Speech community!! . . . . the din on these boards is counter argument to Habermas!! Forget Foucault *ehem* who needs his critique?! -just footnote any political thread here and Habermas's Ideal dissipates n'est pas?
LOL!!
Weeeellll I think dear old Jürgen would agree that no true communication happens on this forum (and hey, who am I to disagree)? perhaps this means that the moderators should be getting worried about a legitimation crisis though!
But I'll admit, the constant Foucaultian attack on 'Reason' gets tiring.
Tell me about it. Actually, the thing which really annoys me about Mr Foucault is his application of the concept of epistemes ? which strikes me as a bit reductionist ? and that it's so slavishly followed by undergraduate pseuds
In a similar vein, one of my more favourite theories is Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital, and Sarah Thornton's application of it to club cultures as "subcultural capital". Here's a quick description for those who haven't met it.
Quote:
Sounds like you're knee deep and loving it . . . I'm kind of envious . . . terminal degree for fine arts is an MFA, though I keep reading theoretical work and histories on my own, I read at a much slower pace outside of student-hood, and without all the inner harrumphing and guffawing . . . lacking that sense of dire purpose . . .
Yeah, I'm drawing desperately close to actually having to graduate. I've started planning for a PhD though, so redemption is in sight. With any luck, I won't finally finish studying until I'm 30 (then I suppose I'll start having to look for an academic position somewhere, because God knows I won't be worth anything for any other job).
You can't jump boat to Art History then?
Quote:
Geffry Elton . . I'll check it out . . .
Seriously, don't go out of your way ? he's a hoary old English Whiggish positivist desperately struggling to disprove a theory he clearly doesn't have the mental equipment to understand. It's only funny if you have a slightly odd sense of humour.
His work on English Parliamentary/institutional history in the sixteenth and seventeenth century is generally considered to be very good though, if excruciatingly boring.
Quote:
Gilbert and George . . . ! love the idea of living with huge, very clear, nicely framed and polished -and very tastefully arranged- turds! Brilliant.
(BTW, referring to specific content w/in the pieces, not calling them names, in case you didn't know?!)
Yep, I definitely need pictures on my wall proclaiming FUCK to the world, and displaying every conceivable human bodily waste product/secretion (actually, I don't think they've done much vomit work, or at least, not that I've seen mentioned. Come to think of it, I think they haven't done dandruff or ear wax either...).
Btw: ShawnJ: Donald Sassoon is actually a complete bastard of a lecturer. I think he got very frustrated lecturing to a class of second-year British yobs, who couldn't give a flying f**k about theory, but had to do it because it was a compulsory unit. Oh well. His work is very good though! And he didn't have a nervous breakdown like one of the other lecturers (who had just started teaching, and foolishly thought that the average undergrad would actually care about the material they were supposed to be learning).
Oh ? and in terms of good sci-fi, Jack Vance is far and away my favourite author at the moment, particularly the Araminta Station series, and the Alastor trilogy. And I've always been quite fond of Gene Wolfe?
edit: gosh, that was a very long post.
It's basically what Lyra's Oxford was to Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, but for Speaker for the Dead. Okay, but not exceptionally creative or outstanding.
And also...
I'm feeling a bit self-conscious designing websites without fully knowing XHTML or CSS, so that's my current tech literature.
Next up: PHP.
Originally posted by mattjohndrow
eats, shoots and leaves, and the matrix and philosophy, by William Irwin