You are caviling. Any thinker has obvious faults. He also has a plausible way forward‚ and there seem few of those.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
Are you sure? "Generative" seems to do a lot of lifting in this argument & I'm unconvinced it means a thing.
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Replying to @TristanSevers @St_Rev
What do you think the correct definition of “generative” is?
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
""Unsterile." My complaint isn't that his dictionary definition is off it's that it appears to be papering over vacuum.
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Replying to @TristanSevers @St_Rev
Point is that pomo *is* sterile. Nihilistic. From lit crit pov, big Q is how to create after meta-narrative collapsed
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As I said, I think the story is somewhat off because pomo’s analysis is off. But basically correct:
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Creation is necessarily historically situated, collaborative, improvisational, paradoxical, appreciative, engaged
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So it *doesn’t* derive from an eternalistic meta-narrative; it arises spontaneously from appreciation of nebulosity
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I think all this is what he’s trying to wave at with “generative”
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
Maybe? That loops back to the insincerity of the argument. "Milo is ungenerative but my hypothetical thing will be."
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afaict that is exactly the opposite of his argument. The for-the-lulz alt-right *is* creative, which, in his view, >
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> is why it is important to both emulate and oppose.
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