Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

I don't know anyone who still claims to be (or think as) a postmodernist. The temporal context implied by "post-" simply indicates a stage we've gone through, not a centralized, coherent way of thinking. The transition referred to by "postmodern" simply indicates that we lost our *assumed*,

Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

FWIW, I view existentialism as a re-grounding of meaning, onto "what it's like" to be human (or any thinking thing). Postmodernism is simply the realization that meaning *can* be re-grounded at will. It focuses less on fixing/fixating on humans and more on our ability to change what we're

Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

FWIW, I view existentialism as a re-grounding of meaning, onto "what it's like" to be human (or any thinking thing). Postmodernism is simply the realization that meaning *can* be re-grounded at will. It focuses less on fixing/fixating on humans and more on our ability to change what we're

Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

Steve writes: < I was surprised to find that there was a style of computer programming named after this term as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming > Cargo cult programming is like the link below, starting at

Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

am [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 9:23 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists Nick - What, for instance, is a cargo cult ideology? Praying to whatever might cause useful stuff to fall out of

Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

/> *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly *Sent:* Saturday, November 18, 2017 5:53 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists This stimulated a memor

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ompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 5:53 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists This stimulated a mem

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This stimulated a memory. When I was a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon one of my classmates, FM, was one of the most enthusiastic fraternity boys ever. I transferred to Berkeley that year. When I returned to CMU as a graduate student 5 years later he was also a grad student and a florid Hippie. I

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I believe Frank is generally right. However,when I was in college in the late sixties hippies were in full bloom but Maynard G Krebs (Adventures of Dobie Gillis) was a TV icon and Lord Buckley was on the pop radio. dave west On Sat, Nov 18, 2017, at 05:39 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > In my

Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

In my experience, growing up in n the Bay Area, Beatniks had come and gone before the Hippies emerged. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Nov 18, 2017 11:15 AM, "Steven A Smith" wrote: > Glen ☣- > > A Postmodernist trying to Rationalize Postmodernism to

Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

Glen ☣- A Postmodernist trying to Rationalize Postmodernism to Rationalists? Actually I found it somewhat interesting...  and was (nicely?) put off by the formatting... the ragged use of bullet points... a "bulleted list of one" seems very symbolic of my caricature of PoMo aesthetic. As for

[FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

HTML: https://palegreendot.net/rrg_notes/2017/10/09/rrg-reading-notes.html PDF: https://palegreendot.net/assets/2017-10-09/postmodernism_for_rationalists.pdf I appreciated these 2 slides: > • Postmodernism at its best > > · Not dogmatic and ideological > · Focuses on human values > ·