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Yeah I can go for that sort of history of ideas, although admittedly lately I've had less of an appetite for most theory-related discourse. But this book seems to be more about history of the theory than theory itself, no?

Yeah I think that makes sense, and how when these disciplines are blurred, much of the context is complicated and it takes us a while to re-orient ourselves.

I think the parts of postmodern discourse which are about how people feel a sense of meaninglessness and existential aimlessness, as a result of society (and our self-awareness) evolving too quickly for us to get a proper footing, is where it can be useful though. Stuff like that.

Yeah, and part of this I think is academia, and how the conversation loses its bearing outside of academia.

Yeah I think postmodernism is an especially weird example of this, because it is so broad and vague in many respects. I do still think there is some utility to be achieved there, in how it lets one understand the world in certain respects. Again, not infallible as a heuristic, nor is it the only...

You could also view this sort of thing as an assertion in defiance of its own fallibility. Or, in terms of utility, you can view this as an attitude which can empower one with a greater sense of autonomy. I think in that case its probably a bit more significant in distinction to whatever...

I think we can only cognitively apprehend the world through our own heuristics, and beyond that any apprehension we have of reality is more on an embodied level than a conscious level.

I think to a large extent, many of these are for pure philosophy in a largely recreational capacity, i.e. for some people they can just enhance the subjective richness of conscious experience, by letting one think they understand the world better. I think beyond that, the utility they may have...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

Well to use that metaphor, all cars eventually break down, and different cars are built for different purposes, but for the most part they are still reliable enough to let us do what we want to do, which is a lot better than we'd be able to do without them.

Do you not like the approach of just handling ideas/theories/frameworks as situationally useful devices, which let us model certain aspects of our reality to a sufficient degree to let us function in that reality, but which are otherwise disposable and inevitably fallible when pressed hard enough?

The paper trail is infinite, self-consuming, footnotes pointing to footnotes, the Sisyphean routine of the Archivist trying to discern the real.

Version is essentially asking if there is a world outside of the Archive

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