First time I’d heard of that; googling ensued
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I get the impression that it was only recently made up?
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That's not necessarily true. To my knowledge "hard rock" was used before "soft rock".
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What I mean is that these expressions don't necessarily arise because the antipole already exists and there is a need for differentiation. Sometimes it's just a game of associations, etc.
Light Web or soft rock can emerge as reactions later.
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Coin term to describe a world thing -> perform language algebra on term (opposites, combinators, modifiers) -> discover new things in world to describe. Reminds me of 😁. "top"-"bottom" interplay.
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That’s a good way to make up jokes, but a dangerous way to discover stuff.
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Doesn’t the “language algebra” of say modernism, postmodernism, metamodernism leave you stuck within the structural dynamics of the original term? I think of e.g. “modernism” as already postmodernism and metamodernism. They’re implicitly in there already, in a way.
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That assumes the modernists were the last people to actually look outside their own heads. Language algebra != referent algebra. People have eyes and ears and time keeps ticking even when people think they’ve thought all thoughts they’re capable of thinking.
Oh, I agree. That’s precisely why I’m raising the point.
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