Reciprocating Bill
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Joined: Oct. 2006
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[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. - Lou FCD]
| Quote (Kristine @ Feb. 07 2009,15:05) | Clifford Geertz (Princeton) seem prescient to me: | Quote | | What we are seeing is not joy another redrawing of the cultural map...but an alternation of the principles of mapping. Something is happening to the way we think about the way we think. |
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I've read and enjoyed Geertz, particularly his 1983 collection of essays Local Knowledge. He was post-modernist and social constructivist to the core, but an insightful observer and ethnographer. He died in 2006.
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Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be.
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
- David Foster Wallace
"Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down."
- Barry Arrington
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