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by eseehausen 13y ago
As opposed to risking just making it legal so anyone can do it without a second thought?
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by eseehausen 13y ago
Rather than legalizing torture as a result of these sorts of fantasies, one might argue that in such extraordinary cases, the interrogator should be willing to suffer the consequences of committing the crime of torture.
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by eseehausen 13y ago
Complicity is a loaded term, so I can see why you'd feel that way. Perhaps it'd be better to say that such behavior enables the slaughterers to do what they do. As for the ethical question of whether a particular instance of backi
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by eseehausen 13y ago
There is a genetic predisposition toward finding it terrible. That's like asking a colorblind person "how can you mix up red and green; they're totally different?"
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by eseehausen 13y ago
And yet, Wittgenstein goes on to write texts that are central pillars of contemporary theory. He also saw that laying out everything you can say in purely logical terms leaves a lot off the table.
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by eseehausen 13y ago
If you read the other comments on this thread, a number of people have clearly explained the significance of the theory. As for the humanities thing, yes, I agree. Just as physicists can make many clear statements that resonate with people
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by eseehausen 13y ago
>"the rest will cower" This is one aspect of sort of complicity with power that's being discussed. Sometimes, people decide en masse that a certain way of life is worth dying for, so we know there are other responses to ar
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by eseehausen 13y ago
There are many things in this world/levels of perspective that benefit from a non-mathematically rigorous analysis- up to and including the question "what is the benefit of rigorous mathematical analysis". That doesn't m
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by eseehausen 13y ago
This sort cherry-picking of "obtuse" quotes to attack high-level theory is pretty absurd. It's equivalent to somebody from the humanities putting down this formula: Y = λf.(λx.f (x x)) (λx.f (x x)) and saying "I have dif
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by eseehausen 13y ago
Arguably, we've moved beyond purely disciplinary societies and into what Deleuze and others called "Societies of Control". One of the arguments there is that while disciplinary societies tend to have centralized enforcement m
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by eseehausen 13y ago
Pink as a girl's color and blue as a boy's color is a relatively recent cultural assignation. Maybe she likes it on some genetic level, but your wife obviously doesn't, and the way you interpret it is based on marketing that
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by eseehausen 13y ago
It is amusing to see them try to shoehorn "Continental" works into "Analytic" categories. The idea, for instance, that _Capitalism and Schizophrenia_ is a text about ethics in the same vein as _After Virtue_ borders on t
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by eseehausen 13y ago
This sort of thing does nothing to undermine the very real criticisms raised by literary theory. I understand that it's confusing and frustrating for people not versed in the theory (much like the code made to process the texts would b
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The Positive Power of Negative Thinking(lifehacker.com)
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Postscript on the Societies of Control (1992)(files.nyu.edu)
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by eseehausen 13y ago
You can't not think about race if people discriminate against you based on it. That was the point. Some people are forced to think about their identity categories.
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by eseehausen 13y ago
"Alas", said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have n