Re: new line: what's the point?

From: Robert G. Grimes (grimes@fcol.com)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 02:15:10 GMT

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    "Joe E. Dees" wrote:

    >As to continental philosophy,
    >check out COMPLEXITY AND POSTMODERNISM:
    >UNDERSTANDING COMPLEX SYSTEMS by Paul Cilliers. I here
    >post my Amazon.com review of the book:

    >A seminal work in the philosophy of technology
    >Reviewer: Joe E. Dees from Pensacola, Florida January 8, 2000
    >This work is essential for a cutting-edge understanding of how two independently
    >cultivated lines of investigation - complexity and postmodernism - have fortuitously
    >dovetailed, providing us with a new level of perspective upon the character and
    >evolution of >contemporary technology. I highly recommend reading this work in >tandem
    with Don Ihde's groundbreaking study EXPANDING HERMENEUTICS: >VISUALISM IN SCIENCE,
    itself a phenomenologically well-grounded yet visionary >exposition of where the
    computer-inspired "visual turn" in hermeneutics is leading >us in the 21st century.

    And....

    >Coarse-grained verisimilitude
    >is revealable with a finer-grained view to be disparity depending
    >upon one's referential frame, and the hermeneutic dialectic between
    >distanciation and appropriation to establish the optimum
    >perspective for viewing an object depends for that optimization upon
    >what aspects of the object one wishes to view. Identicality is an
    >absolute that must withstand the scrutiny of the finest-grained
    >referential frame.

    Aw, Joe, just when I was beginning to enjoy it.... :>)

    I'm asking Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont to pay a house call to our board but, if anyone
    uses the word "autopoiesis," I may have to send him a wire... Maybe he willl hurry,
    because I do sense that "autopoiesis" is on the way!

    Robin, you have been trumped!

    Richard Brodie, is there a memetic antidote equivalent to the Heimlich maneuver?

    Please forgive me everyone, I was overcome...

    Cordially,

    Bob 

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