Windmills, modernism, and beauty
posted by D. McKann @ 12:52 PM
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2 Comments:
"Modernism’s understanding of nature is autistic"??????
so, following the argument listed (which i don't quite buy for several reason-like who's sooo naive as to have faith in a "wholeness in the world" or think that humans more or less 'rupture' such wholeness. bullshit, romantic theories of Nature! "recuperate a living harmonization in the world" ha!, which is to say, beyond some sort of classic, positivist reasoning, how the fuck might one write an article on, say, my inherently contradictory world viewS? or how about the presumption of the dialectic fragment/whole? the whole atom? the whole goose? the whole flock? the whole frekin' species or evolving ecosystem?? me without my baterial cultures, what? hello, scale and a bunch of bad hegelian assumptions guiding the organic/mechanic contrast??-)
so yeh, back to the argument- how can 'modernist' understanding be autistic if it's a highly structure symbolic system (dedicated to the culture of 'machine aesthetics' a la banham)? is not austism presicely the inability to function in normal social, symbolic regimes?
wittgenstein himself would be displeased at Justin's a) sloppy reasoning b) poor editing and c) the absence of stories involving a 'slab'. i'm sure he'd personally led him out back of some cambridge college and help him feel the keen "geometry of life around us".
sorry- had to take a piss on someone today.
huh. meg, i love you. i didn't read ANY of that.
doug, weren't you supposed to be *ahem* working upstairs when you posted that??? hahhah....
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