I like so much of what you say; but I prefer Brio. But
then coke has its place too; like Andy Warhol
--- Susanna Chandler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, our preferences have been colonized. Let's talk
> about that, especially
> since this is a forum for cinema as well as
> philosophy. The message is the
> mass-age, yet still I prefer Coke to Pepsi too.
> Actually, I don't like soda
> except for the rare occasion. The question is
> perhaps more focused if we
> ask, why do we watch, drink, do, think, feel, write
> certain *things*, when
> it has nothing to do with our lives except through
> media? Do we live our own
> lives anymore, whatever our fate?
>
> Discussions are efforts, but to change involves a
> good deal more. I like the
> old theory word praxis.
>
> Put your life, your money where your heart is.
> Philosophers inevitably call
> it intuition [and similar ilk], that ineffable
> knowing what's not a mask,
> what's true to self, life, goodness, evil,
> dishonesty, whatever the subject.
> I distrust and dislike bad thinking, and doubt this
> will go away. So
> philosophy has it's way. Lingo is another story.
>
> Susanna
>
>
>
> From: Aaron Smuts <[log in to unmask]>
>
> You can oversimplify everything. This is a complex
> issue, but I seriously doubt that I don't like
> bananas
> becasue they didn't have as good of commercials as
> oranges. I wouldn't say that soft drinks to 13 year
> olds is the same as banans vs. oranges. There is
> obviously more going on here. But that wasn't my
> point. I was parodying your thinking that having
> preferences was akin to somthing along the lines of
> colonialism. It was just too simple and broad of a
> statement.
>
> > Some solutions are more effective than others
> > regarding the shape of a problem and so may be
> > evaluated as 'better than' within these
> thresholds.
> > I tend to shy away from such statements because of
> > the immediate linguistic slide from more effective
> > to morally superior invoked by 'better than'.
>
> Does it really. I hope your nutrality will save the
> world from horrible aggressive monsters like me who
> are willing to pass judgment on theories and
> positions. (I have a big "Truth" stamp in my
> closet.)
> > I think some ideas are more useful political
> > fictions than others. As a feminist, I find it
> > difficult to allow myself to high a libidinal
> > investment in what I perceive to be badly stated
> > problems.
>
> What exactly does a "libidinal investment" amount
> to.
> Just how much do you enjoy theory?
>
> As a mode of social critique, I work on
> > the assumption that feminism could build a desire
> > for its own death into performative practices i.e
> > will it non-existence post the resolution of the
> > problems it seeks to create solution for.
>
> So, my
> > 'best 'idea' has no knowable content and cannot be
> > used to make a substantive value judgement.
>
> I don't see how this follows.
>
> Is this all a prolix way of saying that once you
> solve
> a problem you don't have to dwell on the issue
> anymore?
>
>
> Following
> > Deleuze on the question of false problems, this
> does
> > seem to imply that there could be a non-false
> > problem. However, the 'properly' stated question
> > starts of as unconscious in Deleuze's early work (
> > Difference and Repetition) whereas space is the
> > place of problems, mainly false problems .
>
> I have no clue what you're getting at with this.
>
> I have to go.
>
> Aaron
>
>
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> 512.480.0377
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