"Like police detectives who go undercover and become too attached to the trappings of the criminal underworld to ever return from it, so too are logicians drawn in by sophisms.”
(Currently enjoying @jehsmith *Irrationality*)
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He is good on how Zizek's "self-Orientalizing schtick...enables him to play at undermining the pieties of liberal democratic or bourgeois society, as he comes from a place where, the prejudice has it, these pieties have no hope of taking root in the inhospitable soil. ”pic.twitter.com/czF2PiED50
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On Nabokov on Freud:"What Nabokov could not abide is the idea that we might be mysteries to ourselves, that we might not be fully in command of our own lives, but rather are all driven by strange tics and hang-ups that we must turn to someone else, a purported expert, to discern"
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Now reading part on art and genius, I wish
@jehsmith had discussed the way in which "genius" makes idiosyncracy/irrationality safe--the idea that genius is innate, unacquirable, untransmittable i.e. *uninfectious*, has always struck me as important for 'containment' of irrational2 replies 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread
That sounds right to me, and yes, I wish I had considered it too.
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