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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 2

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Luke Turner

      OK. Could it do it in straightforward language whilst devising workable plans for the promotion of science and reason and strong institutions and addressing the problems in the universities and generally defending secular liberal democracy, please?https://twitter.com/Luke_Turner/status/948269334673219585 …

      Helen Pluckrose added,

      Luke TurnerVerified account @Luke_Turner
      Replying to @Luke_Turner @HPluckrose
      Science is poetic just as it is true. That's how I view the world. Metamodernism absolutely isn't denying objective reality, but celebrating it as something wondrous.
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 2

      Or if it is purely to be incomprehensible art which witters on about 'oscillation & simultaneity, between & beyond' can it just stay out of the way whilst the rest of us talk about what is actually happening & how to fix it? @Luke_Turner

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    3. Luke Turner‏Verified account @Luke_Turner Jan 2
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      What the heck? "Stay out of the way"? Metamodernism is describing what's happening; it's not forcing anything on anyone. It's an attempt to articulate what is actually happening, and those developments will therefore be metamodern. It can't step out the room if it is the room 😵

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 2
      Replying to @Luke_Turner

      Of course, you are free to go around saying the world is metamodern in abstruse, incomprehensible, unusable terms. Can you just not do it when grown-ups are talking because we have to fix this mess.

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    5. Luke Turner‏Verified account @Luke_Turner Jan 2
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Again, which part of this is abstruse, incomprehensible or unusable? It's very plain, easy to understand English that has evidently been helpful to many. I've not attacked you in any way, but tried to engage. I don't see why you feel the need to be rude.http://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/12/metamodernism-a-brief-introduction/ …

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 2
      Replying to @Luke_Turner

      How can this be used? It's fundamentally meaningless. Have your 'metamodernism discourse' which is 'descriptive rather than prescriptive; an inclusive means of articulating the ongoing developments associated with a structure of feeling.' I see no worth in it.pic.twitter.com/Z9HlaL5OsW

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        2. Luke Turner‏Verified account @Luke_Turner Jan 2
          Replying to @DurinnMcFurren @HPluckrose

          but one of art's roles is to be speculative, and in this way it can certainly spark progress. The relationship of art and science has itself been constantly evolving, and metamodernism simply attempts to articulate the state of things, as opposed to trying to invent anything

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        4. Luke Turner‏Verified account @Luke_Turner Jan 2
          Replying to @DurinnMcFurren @HPluckrose

          Art has the potential to speak of anything and everything, just as science has. They are two sides of the same coin.

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        6. Luke Turner‏Verified account @Luke_Turner Jan 2
          Replying to @DurinnMcFurren @HPluckrose

          if you want to separate the two off entirely, one could say that neither does science alone have the power to discover facts without a spark of creativity

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 2
          Replying to @Luke_Turner @DurinnMcFurren

          But art doesn't own creativity. That is found in science too.

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        8. Luke Turner‏Verified account @Luke_Turner Jan 2
          Replying to @HPluckrose @DurinnMcFurren

          That's like saying science doesn't own method. My point is that the two are entirely intertwined, as they have historically always been.

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        2. Luke Turner‏Verified account @Luke_Turner Jan 2
          Replying to @GrowTheFuckUp66 @HPluckrose

          guess you can't please all of the people all of the time 😇

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 2
          Replying to @Luke_Turner @GrowTheFuckUp66

          I appreciate your good nature and civility, Luke, and I see your good intentions. I apologise for my rudeness and impatience. Perhaps we could try to have a conversation another day but I really think our mentalities are fundamentally opposed.

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        4. Luke Turner‏Verified account @Luke_Turner Jan 2
          Replying to @HPluckrose @GrowTheFuckUp66

          thanks Helen, I often enjoy conversations with people with fundamentally opposed worldviews, but my frustration here is I feel we're arguing for essentially the same thing—just with different language. Would be good to talk someday about how we all engage in enacting change.

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        2. André van Es  🇪🇺  🇳🇱 🌷  🇬🇧 #FBPE‏ @andrevanes Jan 2
          Replying to @HPluckrose @Luke_Turner

          Ever considered human cognition is insufficient to understand reality and maybe poetry is the closest approximation? I find mathematical equations the ultimate expression of poetry.

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        3. chippenjayles‏ @heinousjay Jan 2
          Replying to @andrevanes @HPluckrose @Luke_Turner

          high-level human cognition is capable of understanding reality. our last century of advanced engineering demonstrates that amply. the trouble is most humans have very poor cognition and don’t recognize it

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        4. André van Es  🇪🇺  🇳🇱 🌷  🇬🇧 #FBPE‏ @andrevanes Jan 2
          Replying to @heinousjay @HPluckrose @Luke_Turner

          No, it is capable of explaining reality. That is not identical to understanding reality. To think we understand reality is an anthropocentric misconception.

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        5. chippenjayles‏ @heinousjay Jan 2
          Replying to @andrevanes @HPluckrose @Luke_Turner

          engineering manipulates reality to a great degree of reliability

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        6. Gratam Baratrum‏ @GratamBaratrum Jan 2
          Replying to @heinousjay @andrevanes and

          But possibly only an infinitessimally small percentage of reality...

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        7. chippenjayles‏ @heinousjay Jan 2
          Replying to @GratamBaratrum @andrevanes and

          and possibly 95%. it hardly matters to the point that we clearly understand some portion of it enough to turn it to our ends at will

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        2. Jeff‏ @SphericalMonkey Jan 2
          Replying to @HPluckrose @Luke_Turner

          This is so brilliant, while at the same time idiotic. Don't you feel the seductiveness of it, which is simultaneously extremely off-putting? It's difficult to string together opposites in every sentence, while also being simple. Oh wait, no. It's very easy.

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        3. Sebastian H.‏ @__sebseb Jan 2
          Replying to @SphericalMonkey @HPluckrose @Luke_Turner

          Thanks for saving me the time to make a similar joke. Mine would have been superior while simultaneously much worse, of course.

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