tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post8946049536828384337..comments2024-03-18T21:13:12.753-04:00Comments on Jacob Russell's Barking Dog: Creativity and the IndividualJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-77450135093054392692008-02-06T21:30:00.000-05:002008-02-06T21:30:00.000-05:00Maitresse,Unexamined assumptions.Unexamined by tho...Maitresse,<BR/><BR/>Unexamined assumptions.<BR/><BR/>Unexamined by those who trade in the assumptions. Any assumptions. We have to need to examine our presuppositions, no? <BR/><BR/>In this discussion: writing, reading and critiquing "realist" fiction without reflecting back on what is meant by "reality" ... and it's modes of representation.<BR/><BR/>Your reference to Plato-- Absolutely right! Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-7273641788085081012008-02-06T20:44:00.000-05:002008-02-06T20:44:00.000-05:00Wow. If I may intervene and sidestep the whole jac...Wow. If I may intervene and sidestep the whole jacob/steven exchange:<BR/><BR/>Can you explain what you meant by the term "unexamined"--unexamined by whom? the people leaving the comments? it seems to me that textual criticism (led by, among others, jerome mcgann) and postmodern theory (foucault, barthes) has thoroughly tangled with the need for an Individual Creator-- the "genius" behind the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-27031230251012582802008-02-02T14:34:00.000-05:002008-02-02T14:34:00.000-05:00As a fitting cap to this exchange:From Larval Subj...As a fitting cap to this exchange:<BR/><BR/>From Larval Subjects. <A HREF="http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/great-moments-in-the-classroom" REL="nofollow"/><BR/><BR/>Students shuffling out of the classroom after a discussion of Platonic realism and the possibility of transcendent, objective values independent of culture, history, and individual determination.<BR/><BR/>STUDENT: “ThisJacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-75305569378054685222008-02-01T10:21:00.000-05:002008-02-01T10:21:00.000-05:00Was the effort to be gracious not appreciated?"Wha...Was the effort to be gracious not appreciated?"<BR/><BR/>What was the gracious part? I seemed to have missed it...was it<BR/><BR/>...jumping into a thread, the subject of which interests not at all? <BR/><BR/>... your preference for ad hominem insults over addressing actual content?<BR/><BR/>...spending a good many words suggesting your greater wisdom, then disappointing your would be admirers byJacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-30649358158887847482008-02-01T10:10:00.000-05:002008-02-01T10:10:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-50105125842415952472008-02-01T03:47:00.000-05:002008-02-01T03:47:00.000-05:00Sorry, Jacob, but I've lost patience with the low ...Sorry, Jacob, but I've lost patience with the low level of so much narcissism-fueled, solecism-riddled, crypto-solipsistic blogging. All that endless content, gushing every day (often, new posts more than once a day): how can you *possibly* expect the level to remain high? Time for bloggers to grow up. <BR/><BR/>If a blogger wants to indulge in a little cod philosophy, they're certainly free to, A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-83451047575992126772008-02-01T02:15:00.000-05:002008-02-01T02:15:00.000-05:00Jacob, thanks for putting up the link. Steven Augu...Jacob, thanks for putting up the link. <BR/><BR/>Steven Augustive, I just thought my piece was relevant to the debate you and Jacob (Barking Dog) were having. He seems to me to be more than generous, in his replies to the way you question, and scorn his original thesis. That thesis, well articulated, is just true, and therefore expandable. I don't know how anyone could object to it, though it is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-10496603275080396862008-01-31T21:37:00.000-05:002008-01-31T21:37:00.000-05:00Sophist?Younger?It's one thing to say you aren't i...Sophist?<BR/><BR/>Younger?<BR/><BR/>It's one thing to say you aren't interested. It's another to play this game of "I know better," being all of (maybe) 40 something?... and resorting to labels when you aren't up to point-by-point discussion? <BR/><BR/>Disagreement makes discussion interesting--but that assumes engagement. If you're not interested in engagement on a particular subject, fine... Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-41996839800801996582008-01-31T19:26:00.000-05:002008-01-31T19:26:00.000-05:00Erm, thanks... Lloyd... but having emerged, sleeke...Erm, thanks... Lloyd... but having emerged, sleeker and wiser, from my "Sophist" phase about twenty years ago, I'll leave your done-to-death insights to younger, callow "seekers of truth". Though I'm flattered that you're hankering to pick a fight with me. One last thing; I'm curious: are you an auto-didact?<BR/><BR/>Cheers!<BR/><BR/>SAA. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-42409780880182014742008-01-31T16:43:00.000-05:002008-01-31T16:43:00.000-05:00Here's that link to Lloyd Mintern's post in a link...Here's that link to Lloyd Mintern's post in a linkable form... <BR/><A HREF="http://lloydmintern.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/24-petulant/" REL="nofollow">HERE</A>Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-71444782144953740892008-01-31T14:23:00.000-05:002008-01-31T14:23:00.000-05:00Steven especially might benefit from the following...Steven especially might benefit from the following (though Jacob will surely appreciate it more): http://lloydmintern.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/24-petulant/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-9272968385327196922008-01-29T15:33:00.000-05:002008-01-29T15:33:00.000-05:00Sure. It does work better from my end, your not be...Sure. It does work better from my end, your not being interested in the questions, than casting them--outside my belated understanding--as perfectly settled (or at least, evenly and permanently divided), in the rest of the world.<BR/><BR/>Not being interested works fine for me! And I do appreciate your posting your thoughts here. <BR/><BR/>On then, to other things... <BR/><BR/>Cheers!Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-7882113035476828902008-01-29T15:23:00.000-05:002008-01-29T15:23:00.000-05:00Jacob, my opinions aren't settled on the matter be...Jacob, my opinions aren't settled on the matter because I think I've found THE answer; they're settled because I've already found the answer to the question that appeals to me. You can spend a lifetime worrying that bone (some most probably do), and it may well be worth it... I just can't, personally, go around and around on that one anymore. I'm certainly not extravagantly pleased with myself, A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-31563951434218612582008-01-29T15:06:00.000-05:002008-01-29T15:06:00.000-05:00Well, no...if I thought it were only a matter of m...Well, no...if I thought it were only a matter of my opinion, I wouldn't have bothered writing a post... and my "opinions," such as they are, feel more to me like open question, which for my apparently less advanced intellectual state, are far from settled. <BR/><BR/>If, however, you find that you've resolved matters to the point you can imagine tucking them neatly away in Category A and Category Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-46073075817615142262008-01-29T14:36:00.000-05:002008-01-29T14:36:00.000-05:00With all due respect, I think it's a little late i...With all due respect, I think it's a little late in the day for me to get involved in a quasi-Structuralist wrestling match; it was a long time ago that everyone I knew chose either A) a version of your apparent thinking on all this, academically, or B) chose the opposite. You can't really, by sheer force of will, turn this into a living controversy again, Jacob. Surely you can settle for having A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-76850365802200775652008-01-29T13:50:00.000-05:002008-01-29T13:50:00.000-05:00You say that cultural inheritance can be "factored...You say that cultural inheritance can be "factored out of the equation." This is exactly where I think you go wrong, leaving unexamined the very questions most relevant here. You ask, somewhat anxiously, "why not argue that there's no such thing as an individual?" --but how can you argue whether something does or doesn't exist, when you have nothing more than a vague, semi-mystical notion of whatJacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-75316641345071190172008-01-29T13:12:00.000-05:002008-01-29T13:12:00.000-05:00"You can say that what you write would not have co..."You can say that what you write would not have come into being without you, but it does not come into being through you alone, no more than we become individuals other than in relationship to others."<BR/><BR/>Certainly, Jacob, but that was my point in using the carpenter-building-a-table analogy. What you say is true of everything made by every creature making things, in the history of making: A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.com