tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post2744047017160783145..comments2024-03-10T23:01:51.493-05:00Comments on Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing: PicardJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-76341861290606300992017-09-03T17:19:17.998-05:002017-09-03T17:19:17.998-05:00I should read Picard. I should spend more time rea...I should read Picard. I should spend more time reading theory, I've realized, it was always what made me happy (yes, I am perverse in that way). I wonder if quitting it was what got me so depressed that time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-20831926973404783362017-09-02T12:16:06.706-05:002017-09-02T12:16:06.706-05:00This something Kuhn got right. Science is always s...This something Kuhn got right. Science is always science relative (!) to a paradigm. And a paradigm is constituted by something like 20-100 people using language (and other things) in the same way. If you're not actually letting your perceptions and your utterances be "disciplined" by a reasonably identifiable group of peers, you're not doing science. But you don't have to Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-91294684561204492462017-08-30T15:01:59.055-05:002017-08-30T15:01:59.055-05:00and if you don't understand the basis of the m...and if you don't understand the basis of the metaphor it is likely to be misleading. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-18795659728301118212017-08-30T15:01:27.550-05:002017-08-30T15:01:27.550-05:00It's all fine, but Barthes is saying this is s...It's all fine, but Barthes is saying this is scientific and objective, and it's not. It's just another set of metaphors that may or may not be pertinent. <br /><br />Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-1881565760277420022017-08-30T14:55:13.793-05:002017-08-30T14:55:13.793-05:00So then what *is* appropriate to read with literat...So then what *is* appropriate to read with literature, or bring to bear upon it, or bring to it? I was taught that literature was the expression of history, that it was philosophical, that it was artistic. The people who said these things believed in literary history, philology, rhetoric, and stylistics, and I guess in the new criticism, but with respect for some of those new criticism was Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com