Reblogging this because we're still trying to understand bits of On the Origin of Objects in the comments... please come and join in if you actually understand this book!https://drossbucket.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/the-middle-distance/ …
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The Synthesis was pointing to the whole cognitivist/analytic tradition and saying “look, the emperor has no clothes,” and everyone before and since has deliberately chosen not to notice this.
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Once you notice the nudity, you can ask “why isn’t he cold, what mechanism keeps him warm, this is mysterious” but you tend to get distracted by “why is everyone pretending???” and get annoyed by it. Part I of Eggplant is “look, no clothes,” and I’ve had to work hard to be polite
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