From: Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sun Nov 14 1999 - 16:55:00 MST
From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.com>
Subject: Re: A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies
Date sent: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 10:14:57 -0800
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> From: Christopher Maloney <dude@chrismaloney.com>
>
> >I just finished "Fashionable Nonsense", by Sokal and Jean Bricmont.
> >I highly recommend it. Besides just giving some good yucks at the
> >expense of postmodernists, it has some excellent philosophical
> >discussions.
>
> Thank you for the tip, Christopher. I've passed this on to other lists.
>
> Cheers,
>
So you won'y throw out the useful baby with the bullshit bathwater,
I suggest reading COMPLEXITY AND POSTMODERNISM by Paul
Cilliers, where he maintains that postmodern techniques, which
allow us to more coherently linguistically grasp and represent
systems comprised of a multiplicity of differentially weighted
distinguishable but inseparable factors interrelating in dynamically
recursive ways, lend themselves naturally to the task of verbally
describing/explaining complex systems.
>
> --J. R.
>
>
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