Lae last night I coined a very satisfying phrase to describe a discourse condition: theory-shaped debris
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I once used the phrase “intellectual rubble” to describe what David Graeber’s ideas felt like to me. That’s a theory that never came together. Theory shaped debris is the other end, bits and pieces of a once-whole crashed theory that litter the landscape.
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have been calling thee broken or cracked lenses. I like that your metaphor has the debris angle to it.
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Interesting, I like cracked lenses too, gets at a different aspect sharp, uneven distortions of the field of view. Some things are perceived accurately and precisely, other things are wildly off.
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Our internal discord 😬
unless we wrote about this externally ?
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