tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post8097875762651803622..comments2023-09-15T09:56:16.253-03:00Comments on Composing: Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-11652878659595726802011-06-15T15:13:18.801-03:002011-06-15T15:13:18.801-03:00In re the Jameson link, "But the Lacanian sys...In re the Jameson link, "But the Lacanian system is threefold, and not dualistic." seems to me a very important insight. I need simple explantions and I like <a href="http://www.earthscore.org/New%20Format/article%20pages/pierce_and_work.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>. Scroll down to "Teamwork and the Talking Stick Protocols" it's just a long paragraph that's been helpful to me for understanding a heterarchy of choice.John Powershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17126222842766191343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-81957419136553343872011-06-15T15:02:31.822-03:002011-06-15T15:02:31.822-03:00Scanning over your link to Fredric Jameson my thou...Scanning over your link to Fredric Jameson my thoughts turned to Christopher Alexander. I have not read his new books.<br /><br />The first book I read was "The Oregon Experiment" back in my early college days. Someone in the house had taken advantage of a book club offer to get 4 books for $1 never intending to pay the book club. Ripoff! It was a transformative book to me. <br /><br />Marxists academics seemed to me then so attached to notions of a vanguard, they made fears that they were recruiting or proselytizing laughable. Maybe they were, but if so, only to some elite, for all others withering personal critique was dished out.<br /><br />Anyhow, something that made "The Oregon Experiment" resonate so was attention to the flow of money. Alexander is such a polymath he probably understands Marxism, but his ideas about the flow of money seem hardly influenced by it, instead growing out of his efforts to develop a theory of design. <br /><br />So Alexander opened up a vista for me to see differently without having to take up the heavy baggage of Marxism and be subject to the sadism of disgruntled and dyspeptic professors.<br /><br />Ha, I always make it about me ;-) when I mean to say Alexander is really deep and interesting in so many ways. Check out "The Production of Houses."John Powershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17126222842766191343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-71356855028246945622011-06-15T12:47:31.905-03:002011-06-15T12:47:31.905-03:00Don't get sucked into that postmodern shit. Re...Don't get sucked into that postmodern shit. Read a comic-book summary, and that's enough. Anything more is just wanking.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07695852423080663975noreply@blogger.com