Freud, Zizek, eros and thanatos
Richard Fiero
rfiero at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 23:00:42 CDT 2010
Page wrote:
>David -- I am not sure what point you are trying to make. I was not playing
>semantic games. Nothing much hinges on complexity instead of complication.
>Complex is simply a somewhat better description of classificatory systems
>than is complicated. More accurate, but not necessarily better in any
>absolute sense. The crucial point is that we impose order on the world (or
>disorder; we impose entropy on the world) by means of our descriptions. We
>cannot make sense of the world -- indeed, cannot function in the world --
>without a conceptual scheme.
In V., what is Benny's conceptual scheme? Stencil's?
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