Comments | extemporanea: the thin men stalk the streets

extemporanea

the thin men stalk the streets

Feb 05, 2008 11:12

Gods dammit, I'm losing weight. I had to take in the waistbands of all my skirts a couple of weeks ago, and the wretched things are all down round my hips again. Clearly I need to package the combination of reg week, kitchen renovations and my gym routine, and sell it for millyuns as a diet plan. Either that, or I'm pining for the fjords. Taking ( Read more... )

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strawberryfrog February 5 2008, 13:16:38 UTC

"metropolitanism"? Transmetropolitanism!

nimnod February 5 2008, 13:34:08 UTC

Don't be one of those academics who feels the burning need to bring Foucalt into everything - drove me cray as an undergrad. Fight the Foucalt!

extemporanea February 5 2008, 14:15:37 UTC

No, see, I've never done anything with Foucault before, I've always been scared of him. This has the pleasure of novelty. Besides, it's one, short article that I nicked off the web. I'm sure I won't be horribly corrupted.

egadfly February 5 2008, 20:41:32 UTC

Your ex-boyfriends are argumentative? I disagree!

extemporanea February 6 2008, 06:04:50 UTC

Well, not you, obviously. < /sarcasm >

An awful lot of my ex-boyfriends actively enjoy arguing, and are able to do it with a sort of sublime detachment. I get over-invested and my organic/intuitive process is absolutely no match for ruthless logic. Thus alienation, hysteria and breakups, along with wails of "why can't we just get along?!?"

Possibly I should have done more Philosophy in undergrad.

egadfly February 6 2008, 06:20:47 UTC

... or your boyfriends should have done that course on how to argue productively without emotionally detaching from a relationship. That would involve - shock, horror - trying to engage with your organic/intuitive process rather than slicing it to pieces with ruthless logic.

But there isn't a course. Just the gentle learning opportunities of alienation, hysteria and breakups. Adversarial logical argument can be a fun sport, but that's all it is. Unfortunately it's not just football fans who get a bit too caught up in their sport.

Though I was rather hoping you'd respond with, "That isn't an argument, it's just contradiction."

extemporanea February 6 2008, 07:51:03 UTC

I think my response was far more layered :>.

Adversarial logical argument is not, in my book, a fun sport at all. It's mental cruelty. But I'm quite prepared to admit I might be biased in this regard.

khoi_boi February 6 2008, 15:24:05 UTC

Subaltern cultures - boy, do I feel just a little smug I didn't have to look that up.