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recursivelyenumerable

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I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
« on: May 08, 2008, 02:46:17 PM »
I think I'm ready now.  Malek can bite me.
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Don Flamenco

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Re: I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2008, 02:49:56 PM »
have fun with that.  I couldn't get into it at all.  10 minutes with a book by Zizek or Baudrillard and I'm on the verge gouging my eyes out and giving myself a lobotomy.
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Re: I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2008, 02:53:55 PM »
Zizek at least writes amusing popular articles.  But I'm not so much interested in the later postmodern stuff, more in the earlier Frankfurt School stuff.
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Don Flamenco

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Re: I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2008, 02:55:31 PM »
Cool.  I'm not smart enough to wrap my head around a lot of critical theory (rather, I get some of the ideas, but I space out constantly while reading it), which is probably why I dislike it.
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Re: I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2008, 03:20:41 PM »
I think a lot of it is wrong and/or doesn't really make sense, and result from the writers tying themselves in knots (at least, I know a lot of Marx and Freud's writings fall in that category).  I'm interested in the parts that do make sense (which a lot of Marx's writings also do).

But mostly, I'm interested in retaining my sanity.
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