Philo Sophies<p>Guest article by <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Heinz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heinz</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Luediger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Luediger</span></a>: “Sketch of a <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/negative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>negative</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> - A <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/minimalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minimalist</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> of <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/experience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>experience</span></a>”</p><p>This juxtaposition is to take place in the sense of his approach of <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/orthogonality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthogonality</span></a>. In a <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/dialectical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dialectical</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/procedure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>procedure</span></a>, this should lead to <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/contradiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contradiction</span></a>-free <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/category" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>category</span></a> systems that require no further legitimation through <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logic</span></a> or a <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/mathematical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematical</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/calculus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calculus</span></a> and should lead to a minimalist theory of experience. </p><p>More at: <a href="https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/06/21/skizze-eines-negativen-strukturalismus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">philosophies.de/index.php/2023</span><span class="invisible">/06/21/skizze-eines-negativen-strukturalismus/</span></a></p>
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Philo Sophies<p>Guest article by Heinz Luediger: “Sketch of a <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/negative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>negative</span></a> <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> - A minimalist <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> of <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/experience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>experience</span></a>”</p><p>This juxtaposition is to take place in the sense of his approach of <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/orthogonality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthogonality</span></a>. In a <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/dialectical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dialectical</span></a> procedure, this should lead to <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/contradiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contradiction</span></a>-free <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/category" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>category</span></a> systems that require no further legitimation through <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logic</span></a> or a <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/mathematical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematical</span></a> <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/calculus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calculus</span></a> and should lead to a <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/minimalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minimalist</span></a> theory of experience. </p><p>More at: <a href="https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/06/21/skizze-eines-negativen-strukturalismus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">philosophies.de/index.php/2023</span><span class="invisible">/06/21/skizze-eines-negativen-strukturalismus/</span></a></p>
Philo Sophies<p>Guest article by Heinz Luediger: “Sketch of a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/negative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>negative</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> - A minimalist <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/experience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>experience</span></a>”</p><p>This juxtaposition is to take place in the sense of his approach of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/orthogonality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthogonality</span></a>. In a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/dialectical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dialectical</span></a> procedure, this should lead to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/contradiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contradiction</span></a>-free <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/category" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>category</span></a> systems that require no further legitimation through <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logic</span></a> or a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mathematical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/calculus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calculus</span></a> and should lead to a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/minimalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minimalist</span></a> theory of experience. </p><p>More at: <a href="https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/06/21/skizze-eines-negativen-strukturalismus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">philosophies.de/index.php/2023</span><span class="invisible">/06/21/skizze-eines-negativen-strukturalismus/</span></a></p>
formuchdeliberation<p>Philosopher Jacques Derrida's work spearheaded a new turn of an internal structuralist nature in philosophical thinking in the 1960s...<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JacquesDerrrida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JacquesDerrrida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/deconstructionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deconstructionism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fmdnetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fmdnetwork</span></a> <br><a href="https://philosophyindefinitely.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/derridas-deconstruction-of-philosophy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">philosophyindefinitely.wordpre</span><span class="invisible">ss.com/2020/12/10/derridas-deconstruction-of-philosophy/</span></a></p>
formuchdeliberation<p>Philosophies associated with <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/psychoanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychoanalysis</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/phenomenology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phenomenology</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a>, and Western Marxism all considered the inner self as the source of meaning, analysing its <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/alienation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alienation</span></a>, repression, or neglect in the modern <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a>. This <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/innerself" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innerself</span></a> was considered as being in conflict with the outer world... <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/hermeneutics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hermeneutics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ernstcassirer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ernstcassirer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ferdinanddesaussure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ferdinanddesaussure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/gadamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gadamer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/postmodernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmodernism</span></a> <a href="https://philosophyindefinitely.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/culture-hermeneutics-and-structuralism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">philosophyindefinitely.wordpre</span><span class="invisible">ss.com/2020/11/30/culture-hermeneutics-and-structuralism/</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Social anthropologist <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChrisKnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisKnight</span></a> uses another source of indigenous voice – <a href="https://c.im/tags/Amerindian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amerindian</span></a> mythology – to interrogate Graeber and Wengrow’s oscillatory model, addressing their key question about ‘how did we get stuck?’ A structuralist binary lies at the heart of these mythic discourses, beating to a lunar cyclical rhythm. Although Graeber + Wengrow pay little attention to indigenous myths, he discerns ‘an uncanny fit’ between their ‘getting stuck’ thesis and a worldwide motif central to myths -- a preoccupation with loss of periodicity and movement between worlds. This is taken to a high degree of elaboration in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tucuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tucuna</span></a> story ‘The hunter Monmanéki and his wives’ which opens 'The Origin of Table Manners', Vol 3, Lévi-Strauss’s 'Mythologiques'. The animal wives move through an algebraic sequence of structural oppositions, more and more handicapped by the increasingly absurd demands of patrilocal marriage. The last wife literally flies apart, split into 2 halves. This story's Amazonian voice explains how we ‘got stuck’.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Amazonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazonia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/myth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>myth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mythologiques" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mythologiques</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LeviStrauss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeviStrauss</span></a></p><p><a href="https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk</span><span class="invisible">/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.6</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>FREE community <a href="https://c.im/tags/fediscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediscience</span></a>, please BOOST!</p><p>This evening, everybody welcome!</p><p>🌒Tues Oct 8, 18:30 (London UK)🌓<br>with <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChrisKnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisKnight</span></a><br>LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM</p><p>'The Science of Mythology: The Sleeping Beauty and other tales'</p><p>Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online! <br>Just turn up!</p><p>Chris Knight will be speaking<br> LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW</p><p>You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/fairytales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairytales</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LeviStrauss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeviStrauss</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a></p>
coja<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemsthinking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a></p>
coja<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemsthinking</span></a></p>
Marcio LM<p># Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity</p><p>By Stuart Elden ( <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@stuartelden" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stuartelden</span></a></span> )</p><p>The biographical links between Michel <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Foucault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Foucault</span></a> and the comparative mythologist and philologist Georges <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Dum%C3%A9zil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dumézil</span></a> have received more attention than their intellectual connections. This article contributes by surveying Foucault’s engagements, from a 1957 radio lecture to his late lectures at the Collège de France. Particular focus is on lectures on <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> in 1970, some references between 1970 and 1981, and the use of Dumézil’s work in each of Foucault’s two final courses at the Collège de France. In each, Foucault takes up Dumézil’s analyses of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> in developing his own projects concerning history and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/antiquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiquity</span></a>.</p><p>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2024.a933859" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2024.a9338</span><span class="invisible">59</span></a></p>
cs<p>A.I. is coming for knowledge workers | Think<br>Despite the alarmist headline, Krys Boyd speaks with Dennis Yi Tenen about how <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> can be seen in the context of other tools used by writers for centuries.<br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/schema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schema</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MarkovChain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkovChain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radio</span></a><br><a href="https://think.kera.org/2024/03/07/a-i-is-coming-for-knowledge-workers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">think.kera.org/2024/03/07/a-i-</span><span class="invisible">is-coming-for-knowledge-workers/</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>FREE community <a href="https://c.im/tags/fediscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediscience</span></a>, please boost!</p><p>TONIGHT 🌒🐻🦅🐟🌒<br>Tuesday Feb 13, 6:30pm London time<br> we have <a href="https://c.im/tags/HelenaTu%C5%BEinsk%C3%A1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HelenaTužinská</span></a> (Comenius) and <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChrisKnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisKnight</span></a> (UCL) on</p><p>'The Three Enchanted Princes: Ritual syntax and the interpretation of fairytales'</p><p>FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM</p><p><a href="http://radicalanthropologygroup.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">radicalanthropologygroup.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Helena and Chris are speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building.</p><p>NB due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute round the corner in Gordon Sq. Please plan to arrive between 6:15-6:30 if possible.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/fairytales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairytales</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Slovakia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slovakia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/animalsuitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animalsuitor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Rob Horning writes:</p><p>It seems to me that <a href="https://c.im/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/models" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>models</span></a>, maybe by definition, are automated versions of <a href="https://c.im/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a>, in that they construct a synchronic, weighted matrix of language’s possibilities that is forcibly detached from history — a model of la langue that can generate an infinite number of paroles. And some structuralists, like some “<a href="https://c.im/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>” advocates today, were eager to marginalize human <a href="https://c.im/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> as a unique constitutive force — thus you find Claude Lévi-Strauss declaring in La Pensée sauvage that “the final goal of the human sciences is not to constitute man but to dissolve him.”</p><p>Structuralism seems to want to reveal this “hidden art in the depths of the human soul” and “divine from nature” how and why certain things and concepts are associated. <br>Lévi-Strauss claims that:</p><p>👉 the universe signified long before people began to know what it signified; no doubt that goes without saying. But, from the foregoing analysis, it also emerges that from the beginning, the universe signified the totality of what humankind can expect to know about it. What people call the progress of the human mind and, in any case, the progress of scientific knowledge, could only have been and can only ever be constituted out of processes of correcting and recutting of patterns, regrouping, defining relationships of belonging and discovering new resources, inside a totality which is closed and complementary to itself. 👈</p><p>Viewing the universe as a closed totality suggests that <a href="https://c.im/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> itself is meaningless, an unfolding of a pre-existing and <a href="https://c.im/tags/unalterable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unalterable</span></a> pattern that humans try to fathom but can’t change. </p><p>It seems as though this vision animates the claims and the fears of the companies working to impose language models on us as the apotheosis of general intelligence.</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/robhorning/p/neo-structuralism?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/robhorni</span><span class="invisible">ng/p/neo-structuralism?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>FREE community <a href="https://c.im/tags/fediscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediscience</span></a>, please boost!</p><p>TONIGHT!! 🌙🌴🦜🦜👇👇<br>Tues Jan 16, 6:30pm London time we have <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChrisKnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisKnight</span></a> on</p><p>'The story of the Bird-Nester. An introduction to the science of mythology'</p><p>FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM</p><p><a href="http://radicalanthropologygroup.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">radicalanthropologygroup.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Chris is speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building.<br>NB due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute round the corner in Gordon Sq. Please plan to arrive between 6:15-6:30 if possible.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/myth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>myth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LeviStrauss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeviStrauss</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bororo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bororo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Birdnester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birdnester</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a></p><p>Image is an engraving of a Bororo funeral ritual by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert.</p>
Radical Anthropology<p>TONIGHT!<br>Our last class of the year is a trip to the Underworld! At the dark moon 🌚<a href="https://c.im/tags/trickstertime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trickstertime</span></a> 🌠👠🩰🎄🌚</p><p>Tues Dec 12, 6:30 pm (London time) <br>'A Winter Solstice Fairytale: the Shoes that were Danced to Pieces'<br>With <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChrisKnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisKnight</span></a> </p><p>Everybody welcome to join LIVE @UCLAnthropology<br>Venue: Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW (please arrive before doors close)</p><p>Or sign up for ZOOM 👇 on Eventbrite<br><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-anthropology-talks-tickets-707087105567?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-ant</span><span class="invisible">hropology-talks-tickets-707087105567?aff=oddtdtcreator</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/fairytale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairytale</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/solstice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solstice</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/matriliny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matriliny</span></a></p>
Tucker Teague<p>When I was studying <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> in college, much of the underlying theory fueling my research was <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostStructuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostStructuralism</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/semiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>semiotics</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/constructivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>constructivism</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AuteurTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuteurTheory</span></a>. I knew nothing of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Psychoanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychoanalysis</span></a>, nothing of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Freud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Freud</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lacan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lacan</span></a>. </p><p>When <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zizek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zizek</span></a> came out with his 2006 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a>, THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA, it blew me away. Though I was done with college I still continued with a strong interest in cinema. I found his insights fascinating and provoking. </p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/512328135" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vimeo.com/512328135</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
General abstract nonsense.<p>Today I stumbled upon a quote by Lawvere:</p><blockquote><p>There has been for a long time the persistent myth that objects in a category are “opaque”, that there are only “indirect” ways of “getting inside” them, that for example the objects of a category of sets are “sets without elements”, and so on. The myth seems to be associated with an inherited belief that the only “direct” way to deal with whole/part relations is to write an unexplained epsilon or horseshoe symbol between A and B and to say that A is then “inside” B, even though in any model of such a discourse A and B are distinct elements on an equal footing. In fact, the theory of categories is the most advanced and refined instrument for getting inside objects, because it does provide explanations (existence of factorizations of inclusion maps) and also makes the sort of distinctions that Volterra and others had noted were necessary for the elements of a space (because the elements are morphisms whose domains are various figure-types that are also objects of the category)</p><p>F. W. Lawvere, <a href="http://www.tac.mta.ca/tac/reprints/articles/5/tr5abs.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Functorial Semantics of Algebraic Theories and Some Algebraic Problems in the context of Functorial Semantics of Algebraic Theories</a></p></blockquote><p>Lawvere wrote this 20ish years ago and yet this myth is still not dead! The simplicity and superiority of <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/generalized+element" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">generalized elements</a> (and, more broadly, of <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/internal+logic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">internal logic</a>) seems to be left aside way too often, especially when teaching category theory: it’s such an easy win to leverage set-theoretic intuition to nurture a structuralistic one!</p><p>However, like all good things in life, the element-free/generalized elements dialectic is much more interesting than either of the two sides it insists on.</p> Like all good things in life, it’s a gaussian wojak meme <p>The first rebuttal to Lawvere, in fact, is that element-freeness is not a ‘myth’ <em>tout court</em>, since it is true that category theorists strive to avoid working with elements directly, at least as a widespread stylistic choice.</p><p>But there’s more to it.</p><p>As I remarked in <a href="https://matteocapucci.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/no-the-yoneda-lemma-doesnt-solve-the-problem-of-qualia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">one of my last posts</a>, objects of a category are mere labels which are substantiated by morphisms. In particular, it’s not at all given that if you label your objects with <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/concrete+object" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">concrete stuff</a>, their set-theoretic elements (call these <em>fool’s elements</em>) coincide with their ‘actual’, i.e. category-theoretic <em><a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/generalized+element" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">generalized elements</a></em>.</p><p>That’s the true meaning of the categorical wisdom of element-freeness: don’t fool yourself, use the <em>right</em> elements. Indeed, the point is precisely than using morphisms to pick out elements is <em>the</em> way to go, as witnessed by the fact it works in all settings uniformly, unlike materialistic notions of elementhood.</p><p>To sum up: category theorists don’t work with elements, they work with ‘generalized elements’ (i.e. morphisms) which are the right notion of elementhood in a structuralist setting. The old adage of working element-free is a cautionary tale for all those settings in which one could fall for a notion of elementhood which is not the right one, but the one falsely suggested by a set-theoretic labeling on objects.</p><p>Category theory doesn’t reject the notion of elementhood, but instead fully realizes it.</p><p><span></span></p><p><a href="https://matteocapucci.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/on-elements-in-category-theory/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://matteocapucci.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/on-elements-in-category-theory/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://matteocapucci.wordpress.com/tag/elementhood/" target="_blank">#elementhood</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://matteocapucci.wordpress.com/tag/math/" target="_blank">#math</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://matteocapucci.wordpress.com/tag/structuralism/" target="_blank">#structuralism</a></p>
nope<p>Social Space and Symbolic Power<br>(1989) : Bourdieu, Pierre<br>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/202060" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.2307/202060</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/institution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>institution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/symbolic_power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbolic_power</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/constructivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>constructivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/social_space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>social_space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/my_bibtex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>my_bibtex</span></a></p>
Peter Kahlert<p><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Creativity</span></a> is an empty signifier of the human condition, but a special case of a floating one because it is not simply instantiated semantically but reproducing a transtextual vanishing point of negativity and shift. Just like god, or mana, which indeed marks the origin of the concept.<br>Thus creativity can act in realms of formalisation even when formalisation is missing, can strive for a solution when there is none.<br><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a></p>
nope<p>Beginning Theory<br>(1995) : Barry, Peter<br>isbn: 978-1-5261-2179-0<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/narratology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narratology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stylists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stylists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/criticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criticism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modernism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/post_modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>post_modernism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/structuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queer_theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer_theory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/post_colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>post_colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/my_bibtex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>my_bibtex</span></a></p>
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