Comments on: Fighting the good fight, part 2

By: Neptunus Lex » Staring into the abyss

Neptunus Lex » Staring into the abyss — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:32:43 +0000

[...] Jeff Goldstein, whose virtues I have praised before, has had a little trouble over at his place with an ?ɬ

By: Neptunus Lex » Staring into the abyss

Neptunus Lex » Staring into the abyss — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:32:43 +0000

[...] Jeff Goldstein, whose virtues I have praised before, has had a little trouble over at his place with an über-troll. It’s the kind of thing you could make a B-grade horror thriller about: University of Arizona college psych prof goes nuts – no kidding nuts – over someone she’s never met, and with whom she disagrees politically. Threatens the blogger’s kid, when it’s all said and done. [...]

By: Ima Fake

Ima Fake — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:24:14 +0000

Ah, The Tempest, rollicking Navy play. Shakespear’s ode to SLOC control.

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that does fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong,
Hark! Now I hear them ?

By: Ima Fake

Ima Fake — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:24:14 +0000

Ah, The Tempest, rollicking Navy play. Shakespear’s ode to SLOC control.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:48:31 +0000

Jeff G -
I think you make a good point here, and getting one’s “de-coding as close to the oringal encoding” is a laudable goal. Where I see a problem is when two decoders disagree over the original encoding. Say for example, that you and I read _The Tempest_ by Shakespeare. I might argue that the Shakespeare’s intent was to create anti-colonialist propaganda and you might disagree. Is that a useful or meaninful discussion to have, since the answer is unknowable?

Certainly it is important to take an author’s historical context and biography as well as other structural and thematic clues into consideration during our interpretation. However, once created, a text stands on its own, seperated from its author’s intentions.

By: Ima Fake

Ima Fake — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:27:21 +0000

BB,

A nerve was struck. I studied Theory in law school and thought much of it was crap. Levi-Strauss I liked, both for what he said, and in the autobiography, for who he was. Of all the French Philosophers, he was the only one I’d want to sit and have a beer with. So, I’m fond of him.

Couple my fondness with an ignorant ability to discern intent, and I took the New York comment as a slur on his honor. The conduct of France and the French in WWII is an issue. Collaboration with the Nazis is an issue which still roils the French. Claude was a leftist intellectual, yet what he did was put down his pencil and enlist. He stayed in the army until they got their ass kicked. When he found out that the Nazis were shipping off jews to the east, with the help of his collaborationist countrymen, ran like hell to New York.

So, I am sorry.

Ima

P.S. Gravity is just a theory too.