Back on the Foucault. I don't really understand why this is supposed to be hard to read? I guess I've tried to read "Archaeology of Knowledge" before and remember struggling a bit, but "Discipline and Punish" seems... fine? Maybe it gets harder later?
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There’s another whole skill that most people don’t have to learn because their work is within a clearly-defined discipline, which is “figure out the fundamental principles of field X, what it is good for, and [most important] what its limitations are.”
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Have you encountered the idea of "threshold concepts"? It's an education theory thing but when I encountered it it occurred to me this might be a good way to engage with a new field - find out the threshold concepts in it and just learn those
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I think we've talked about it (certainly it's something I talk to people about) but I've not specifically written anything on it
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