“Myth Is a Theorem About the Nature of Reality” Robert Bringhurst is known for writing the best-ever work on typography and book design. Here he talks about the trans-human function of myth, and about being an independent ex-university intellectual.https://www.guernicamag.com/myth-is-a-theorem-about-the-nature-of-reality/ …
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No doubt about it - his achievements are impressive. And if I may add, entirely impossible within academia as it is today.
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Utterly, yes. I fear the consequences of this for our future. Universities have been the holders of culture—preserving, renewing, and extending it—for nearly a thousand years; ending about now.
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1/3 One of the key, if implicit, points in the Bringhurst interview is how myths are the literature of the non-human, which leads to one of my favorite claims, that the real schism in modernity isn't between science and religion but between science and literature
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2/3 Modern literature being obsessively about the human subject's character and interiority, creating a specifically modern human self, while science is obsessively about objects with no claims to interiority, hence the great confusion about the "hard problem of consciousness"
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3/3 and I wonder how much of that schism is due to a fork when orality was frozen as writing, with the writing of symbols taking on a different register from the writing of prose.
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book in a sale and fell in love with the world he was bringing forth