It is time we had an interdisciplinary world. It is time we created a society where all levels of thinking and society can work together – so the individual psychologies can live together in a more
integrated society. Interdisciplinary thinking tries to promote environmentalism, capitalism, religion, heroic
individualism, and families simultaneously. Beauty, truth, and ethics are united.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Public Intellectuals
Go vote for your pick of the top 100 public intellectuals at Foreign Policy.
Considering how much postmodern thought relies on the standard social science model, I'm not surprised. I guess Zizek's vulgar tangents about fist-fucking in the garden of Eden and the like would be better described as "cultural criticism."
Society, culture . . . it's not all that surprising, considering the vulgarity of much pomo art and literature. Take a look too at the primary influences on French pomo thought: surrealism, fascism, Bataille, de Sade . . . a pretty vulgar lot.
I had no idea Slavoj Zizek was a sociologist.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Many of the postmodernist thinkers are (or were).
ReplyDeleteConsidering how much postmodern thought relies on the standard social science model, I'm not surprised. I guess Zizek's vulgar tangents about fist-fucking in the garden of Eden and the like would be better described as "cultural criticism."
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see Ed Wilson on the list.
Society, culture . . . it's not all that surprising, considering the vulgarity of much pomo art and literature. Take a look too at the primary influences on French pomo thought: surrealism, fascism, Bataille, de Sade . . . a pretty vulgar lot.
ReplyDeleteThere were some good ones on the list.