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Of course that phrasing is a mine field, seeing as data is central in science purely by virtue of its rawness. But the processing consists in integrating that data into a practical base of knowledge, whereas the daemonic end of the spectrum goes about it differently.

A tad reductive but not entirely off base. You feel reality more because you let it impact you more directly, whereas it gets filtered through these artificial mechanical and conceptual apparatuses in the name of science. Raw vs processed, in a way, no?

Yeah the poesy department is in hard times. Lit will get back in line. Its science's turn running the train, which is to be interpreted however you like.

Hence all the conceptually heavy claims I'm used to making, not being predicated on actually having intimately engaged with the text.

I do think that a refusal to read can enable certain would-be academics to relate beyond class lines they may not otherwise detect. Not to be too reductive, but so many of these texts are total rabbit holes - not without good reason, but nonetheless rabbit holes. The only possible synthesis...

In the sense of how he is being received, I may actually serve as a generic model for at least certain parts of this culture. I;ve seen hours and hours of his talks on youtube, but my reading of him is limited to an article and a transcript of a panel his did with Alain Badiou. (edit: which is...

Come for the fascinating mannerisms and stay for the oddly libidinal resonance.

In this particular circle though, this kind of NY cultural hub with tendrils across and perhaps beyond the country, I do think that Zizek is embraced as an ideologue, one that perhaps registers largely because of charisma. I haven't read any of his books, nor do I plan on it, but often just...

I tend to get the impression, especially after smoking, that this forum is like a big schoolyard where we meander around, form discussion crowds with onlooking lurkers, people switching between crowds, all seen from above as a sort of random walk aggregation.

Must be, to some extent, given I don't even remember what it was like.

Interesting, hadn't considered that transition before.

Thats cool about Beery. There was a dropping of his name in Mank, but I forget the context. I've only seen Grand Hotel and China Seas. edit: thought this was funny, from Wiki - "China Seas is a 1935 American adventure film starring Clark Gable as a brave sea captain, Jean Harlow as his brassy...

https://b-ok.cc/book/1044108/0e2eb1?dsource=recommend And from a section called "Mind to Mind and How", this section was touches upon what I was referring to earlier: A slap in the face, that first sentence, reminding me how easy it is to become charlatan out of having a bad faith in one's...

I've only listened to a bit of Burial, after reading Fisher's essay about crackle, and I can't recall my feelings about it. I can report back, at some point.

The trick, regarding the manner in which Yin (black) must reckon with Yang (white), is that it needs to be expressed systematically, and systematic expression seems to gravitate around the latter, being science. So how do we begin to systematically express why systematic expression ought to be...

Austin Osman Spare put it well in Two Tracts on Cartomancy, claiming that certain divination techniques involve the abdication of reason-based agency, yielding the decision to be made outside of the jurisdiction of reason.

I think science will only reach its maximal potential once it manages to systematically acknowledge that not all knowledge passes through the conceptual gauntlet that is the scientific method. That it is just, in principle, the rigorous, replicable approach. Like Yang needs to reckon with Yin...

Yeah I don't really know anything about Dawkins, nor do I have much interest in him.

This gets into the territory of faith, for me, but yeah I think there will always be things science cannot explain. Unless there is some kind of collective intelligence singularity where the distinction between the map and the territory, between our understanding of the cosmos and the cosmos...

Not an imperative so much as a possible approach for dealing with science in a manner that isn't purely negative.