<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Some reactions to Bonevac's lecture.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">1) The only place where postmodernism continues to hold influence is among leftist academics and politics, e.g. gender studies, ethnic studies, a portion of BLM, Antifa rhetoric (talk by self-identified folk - make no claim as to whether a "movement" as such exists), revisionist history, etc. etc.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">2) Yes!! to Quine.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">3) the enlightenment slide — my alternative, with a totally different meaning of "enlightenment:"<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><b>Enlightenment</b><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">There is independent Truth.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">There is no independent objective knowledge of IT - only direct, unmediated, apprehension.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Reason is the Great Deceiver!<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Acting rationally, as if the actor and her reason had any effect, is attached action and ensures failure and misery.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Thu, Aug 20, 2020, at 11:01 AM, jon zingale wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> "Maybe postmodernism itself stands between me and screen..."<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6cwmzhbBE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6cwmzhbBE</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> --<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Sent from: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 <a href="http://bit.ly/virtualfriam">bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">><br></div></body></html>