My favorite notion of the week: complaining this morning about grifters “doing violence to concepts.” How evocative! He meant it negatively, but ofc sometimes concepts must be violently recast!
(Thanks to @mariodgabriele for hosting—I think there’ll be a recording?)
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When is it best to “do violence to concepts” vs. defining new concepts? I guess that’s one of the core tactical question of culture wars?
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There will be, indeed! Loved getting to spend time with you both and the rest of the crew :)
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next week's panel: beefs & grifts
(super appreciative you put the recordings up - great watches)
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Conceptual distance can be seen as an opportunity to dig into the context. If we try to clarify, to learn what the other means without judging if the concept is suitable, then we can rephrase and create common understanding. In uni-directional media (books) this is not possible.
Regarding the (in)purity of concepts, there's a deep rabbit hole in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, "the signifier" nosubject.com/Signifier#Unst but it's pretty steep ;-)
> one of the purposes of this post is to take your concept of "deadline" & put it in a solvent.
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Sent this post to @AskYatharth and he was like "I'm just starting to read this and I'm like, I'm already confused about what a deadline is…"
Me: Yeah, I mean, one of the purposes of this post is to take your concept of "deadline" & put it in a solvent.
malcolmocean.com/2020/10/deadli
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And here is that recording:
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If you couldn't join on Friday here's the video from the "Indie Research" panel featuring @_adamwiggins_ @andy_matuschak @anthilemoon @tobyshorin @karakittel and me.
A ton of fun!
We missed @Conaw but maybe he'll share some thoughts in this thread ;)
youtube.com/watch?v=vrhBaR
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