"Focusing on that inappropriate reduction *is* the point" Is exactly the point. One could begin to describe the world synthetically by reaching for some tools like distance, or one can analyze by factoring the world into a tool like distance. Both are available as interpretations. Heidegger is concerned with compactness and he is describing it in terms of the end of distance, the end of near and far. I don't believe he is simply saying that all is factored into distance. Interpretation, though, is constrained by habit.
By contrast, from today's NYT: """ While there are degrees of opposition to vaccination for the coronavirus among a number of groups, including African-Americans and antivaccine activists, polling suggests that opinions, in this case, are breaking substantially along partisan lines. """ The rhetoric expressed here is clearly quantity-centric. The article makes claims about the *degrees* of opposition among a *number* of groups. It is suggested that, via polling, that the degree of breaking (substantially) is along the singular dimension of party. The underlying assumption for this kind of rhetoric is that space is a universal metaphor. This is very different, to my mind, than what one must bring to reading Heidegger, the Frankfurt school, and (quite explicitly) to Bergson. To make things a little more muddled, now that AZ is getting some much blowback for the blood clots and brain hemorrhages, should we push harder to cancel those that warn of the dangers of operation warp-speed? -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
