Daniel,
I think we`re enjoying this hedonism, which is surely fine.
And hell I wish I could find a comfortable reductionist point to launch
a disagreement!
David
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:40:59 GMT dan knox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi
> no doubt the forum is keen to hear more on this:
>
> David Crouch wrote
> > The lazy can often be followed by the reductionist.
>
> or indeed preceded by it, i suppose. this seems to me to be a very
> reductionist argument in itself. perhaps i am wrong (again). probably
> not though.
>
> can we reasonably argue that any argument other than that which would
> be accepted as the norm in contemporary cultural geography is
> reductionist ? hmmm... I think that independently of whatever it is
> that we do in our 'professional' lives, we operate with at least a
> certain amount of reductionist logic in our everyday lives. we,
> literally, haven't the time to consider everything in the depth we
> might like and so, have to get on with living. i know i am an
> everyday reductionist but not in my work; no please...
>
>
> > The difficult, hard
> > thing is to explore how enactions of identity are encountered through
> > the kind of issues that you note. Neither operates alone, how do they
> > influence each other and knowledge and response to each other? And how
> > dos that shuffel the exercise of power.
>
> how true. i, being a reasonable man, would, of course, agree with
> this point. i still say i could write something lazy and lame about
> swimming (some say i already have). ah well
> i think the thing to wonder here is exactly what is it that Front 242
> are performing and what meaning and significance they take it to
> hold. i, for one, will embrace that difficulty and hardness.
>
> kind regards
>
> Dan
>
>
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> Daniel L. Knox
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> University of Durham
> Durham
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