Recent content by PaulC

At least with these things we would have some way of defining our situation. Not sure about the heading, but definitely concur with the concept.

Hello all, thanks for your comments, especially about the language. Okay, I thought I should make everything a bit more immediate. It hasn't sucked away too much time because I'm working on a book that is related to these ideas. Post-structuralism annoys me because it's Orwell's groupthink in...

Deconstruction is a form of cultural and literary analysis based on the supposition that language is inherently incapable of meaning. It has no direct relation to Romantic notions of wonder and inquiry, since any meaning gained from that wonder or inquiry would itself become meaningless under...

Then what you're talking about is a structure of privilege and heirarchy that Pollock is reacting against. Fair dinkum: I'm not arguing against artistic freedom. The whole problem with post-structuralism and post-modernism is that it fails to define its terms, and this is why it connects to...

A summary of what this saying: there is no frame of reference yet in our culture for the situation we're in (the slow release by the authorities of the fact of life throughout the universe and of civilizations beyond our own; if this isn't happening then why are there so many files being...

Well all we have for our theory of mind is Freud and Jung, then everything since has been focusing on the experimental and ultimately pharmacological manipulation of our mental process rather than what the mind is and what we are experiencing. I think that this has two sides: first, we may be...