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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Dec 2017
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    Read 5 pages of Deleuze’s “Bergsonism” and I already have a headache. I don’t know how you critical theory types do it. It’s got some good insights, but wow my head hurts.

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      1. Jamie Powell‏ @ajb_powell 25 Dec 2017
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        the funniest thing is when right-wing academics claim that these thinkers were both highly influential on post-truth/ propagating moral relativism and impossible to read. erm...

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      1. Jamie Powell‏ @ajb_powell 25 Dec 2017
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        I always ask those with this view for the sales figures of Atlas Shrugged vs One Dimensional Man.

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      2. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 25 Dec 2017
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        Circling around the original source you’re trying to read by also reading multiple other interpretations of it from different angles until you get the original point.

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      3. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 25 Dec 2017
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        Also probably helps that approaching those kinds of theories from my POV in architecture gave me relatively tangible semi-related examples to work with. Thinking through how a theory applies to a building (or other artistic works) can help you better understand the theory itself.

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      1. Troy Conrad Therrien ∞ 🐬‏ @troytherrien 25 Dec 2017
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        so refreshing to hear... that was the first philosophy book i ever read cover to cover... i think i was 20... my head still hurts from it, but i digested something about actual and virtual and time and immanence that rests in my core even if i will never be able to articulate it

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      1. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 25 Dec 2017
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        It seems to be the secret to becoming truly informed as an academic. Familiarity with not just specific individual sources, but also the overall collective debate/discussion surrounding and extending beyond any one particular source.

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      1. 40% Evil Educator‏ @twneslscience 25 Dec 2017
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        I like Deleuze, but Bergsonism is not his easiest read. But you know, you get used to it.

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      1. Meekaale Brockman‏ @meekaale 26 Dec 2017
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        could it be that the translator also didn't understand much and made it at least twice as obscure?

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      1. Vinay Gupta‏ @leashless 26 Dec 2017
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        It is this way for a reason. After the failed Paris 1968 moment, the revolutionary left (suspected of treasonous alignment with the Soviets) moved into academia. They continued to talk about the revolutionary overthrow of the State, but to keep their jobs, developed an ideolect.

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      1. Simon Belak‏ @sbelak 26 Dec 2017
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        Read in multiple passes. First time brisk through. This will give you a very rough mental scaffolding (doesn't matter if wrong) to build of in the next read through. I usually do 2 quick passes and then (depending on what I want from the text) maybe a slow read.

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