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Yeah, I think "postmodernism for techies" is part of what he aims for. He writes, > Unfortunately, the postmodern pioneers chose to write in obfuscatory riddle
by vilhelm_s 10y ago
Yeah, I think "postmodernism for techies" is part of what he aims for. He writes,
> Unfortunately, the postmodern pioneers chose to write in obfuscatory riddles. Their insights were difficult enough to understand without that. Few followers could extract the insights. Most teachers are second-generation professors who didn’t understand pomo when it was new, and third-generation ones who were mainly taught dumbed-down second-generation “pseudo-pomo.”
https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge
A part of his project seems to be to pick what he considers to be the "good parts" of postmodernism, and explain them in a way that makes sense to people from a STEM background.
- jolux 10y agoYeah, it's actually not bad. My initial assessment was perhaps too harsh because I assumed he didn't know the literature. I'm still not sure that he does entirely but it's still good on its own I think.
- vanderZwan 10y ago> I'm still not sure that he does entirely Wouldn't that a bit of an unreasonable demand anyway, given the vastness of philosphy?
- jolux 10y agoWell, I'm not saying he has to read absolutely everything that could be read on the subject because nobody has; especially not I. I just mean that on first pass I kind of assumed he was trying to be as original as possible and I thought he was failing but then I realized he was more trying to translate inscrutable brilliance into readable form. The latter he succeeds with, the former he does not.
- smaddox 10y agoThanks for the link. I found it very insightful. I especially like the sublinked exposition on nihilism: https://meaningness.com/nihilism-hardcore-vs-lite https://meaningness.com/nihilism-hardcore-vs-lite I didn't understand his distinction between subjective vs neither objective nor subjective at first, but the examples he gave illuminated the distinction, and he thus changed my perspective on the issue.