tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post114166958885040121..comments2023-10-24T03:46:41.971-07:00Comments on Contingencies: Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-1142223027647894822006-03-12T20:10:00.000-08:002006-03-12T20:10:00.000-08:00The hypostasy thing is pretty important and intere...The hypostasy thing is pretty important and interesting, IMO, just as a general problem. What is subjectivity if not hypostasy? 'I' don't exist, etc., am just an illusion spawned by various mental processes, and yet I do exist because I assert my own existence. And it's this demand for recognition that allows us to interact with each other at all. We can't value, positively or negatively, what wetraxus4420https://www.blogger.com/profile/05083641650092543902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-1141955132424084862006-03-09T17:45:00.000-08:002006-03-09T17:45:00.000-08:00In regards to psychological issues, I would agree ...In regards to psychological issues, I would agree that one cannot simply speak of "facts." Much of what passes for political and philosophical chat is concerned with the human schema (avoiding any "transcendental unity of apperception" or cartesian types of thoughts), but not much can be said about schemas, regardless of the claims of social psychologists who think they might chart out a person'sJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-1141948403088191322006-03-09T15:53:00.000-08:002006-03-09T15:53:00.000-08:00(good) literature/art, science, and history differ...(good) literature/art, science, and history differ from each other only in the objects they describe, and their affect or 'style.' Both ideology and calculated maximizing of gain have a tendency to ruin them if performed in a way that's unselfconscious or naive. I'm basically with you on the biological determinsm/secular atheism POV, but the idea that 'facts are enough' is the worst kind of traxus4420https://www.blogger.com/profile/05083641650092543902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-1141929457295478872006-03-09T10:37:00.000-08:002006-03-09T10:37:00.000-08:00Obviously adverstising is far more pervasive than ...Obviously adverstising is far more pervasive than fine art. Fine art is now mostly for snoots, westsiders, the wives of doctors and lawyers, or perhaps some college boy cowboys in the midwest fond of duck or injun' pictures. <BR/><BR/>If you skim through the pages of any art magazine, you note the art is mostly decorative, sometimes quirky or sexy but never jarring. The paintings are pretty, Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-1141923991250761062006-03-09T09:06:00.000-08:002006-03-09T09:06:00.000-08:00.another aspect, intended or not, and hopefully no....another aspect, intended or not, and hopefully not too obvious of Adorno's panegyric on Culture ( not far from Huxleys' idea of the "feelies" in Brave New World, or even PK Dick in Faith of Our Fathers--slightly more continental of course )--the deception of the ho-wood spectacle always distances people from history, from war, from real world problems: there have been a few movies about WWI andJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-1141922713437624662006-03-09T08:45:00.000-08:002006-03-09T08:45:00.000-08:00Or not: check out this quote I dug up from Benjami...Or not: check out this quote I dug up from Benjamin, Adorno's sometime rival and representative (generative?) of a strain of critical theory is interested in alternatives to the raging against the dying of the light type of polemic that gets around among 'blogger-pariahs' like meself:<BR/><BR/>Fools lament the decay of criticism. For its day is long past. Criticism is a matter of correct traxus4420https://www.blogger.com/profile/05083641650092543902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-1141878927985801262006-03-08T20:35:00.000-08:002006-03-08T20:35:00.000-08:00conclusions based on culture industry products are...conclusions based on culture industry products are not 'confirmable' in the sense you yearn for because the products themselves are not confirmable. The form of the initial communication always in part determines its response. To deny this power of initiative too forcefully (with too much emotional investment in some presupposed value system, usually) is to risk missing the 'point.' <BR/><BR/>traxus4420https://www.blogger.com/profile/05083641650092543902noreply@blogger.com