tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post1326065017840129745..comments2024-03-22T00:20:38.510-07:00Comments on Adam Riggio writes: Is Mind Over Matter If Mind Is Matter?, A History Boy, 25/07/2013Adam Riggiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-21844262413436255112013-07-25T13:52:02.118-07:002013-07-25T13:52:02.118-07:00His essay on The Deadly Assassin contains some ide...His essay on The Deadly Assassin contains some ideas that inspired the basic framework of my utopias project, particularly Phil's critiques of the conception of history through the lens of a master narrative.Adam Riggiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-90464618347463150132013-07-25T13:19:39.145-07:002013-07-25T13:19:39.145-07:00I'm pleased to see that the first Eruditorum p...I'm pleased to see that the first Eruditorum post includes an extensive discussion of that freaky theme music.Tom Crosbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942888225118081569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-295480775748282542013-07-25T13:15:37.415-07:002013-07-25T13:15:37.415-07:00I'll have to check out Bergson first hand.
...I'll have to check out Bergson first hand. <br /><br />Unlikely that I'll become a Who fan but I guess I'll give the Eruditorum a shot -- what could it hurt? My only Who experiences are a) feeling terror when I would hear that freaky theme song when it was on TV in our youths, presumably on CBC: b) downloading that freaky theme off Napster while at King's College's foundation year thing and really getting down.Tom Crosbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942888225118081569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-26110354295939353672013-07-25T12:37:13.294-07:002013-07-25T12:37:13.294-07:00Alan Moore, the mad wizard of Northampton. His ide...Alan Moore, the mad wizard of Northampton. His ideas about genre and narrative are fascinating to me, though I don't fully know what I'll do with them. If you are or could see yourself as being into Doctor Who, you should skim through TARDIS Eruditorum. It's a heavily Moore-influenced (and with key references to Blake as well!) walk through the history of Doctor Who from its beginning to the present-ish. Right now, the plan is to end it when he catches up to Matt Smith's regeneration.<br /><br />In my next few entries, I'll probably talk about some of my influence by Alan Moore, and my thoughts on Bergson as well. My PhD supervisor has developed a minor fascination with Bergson lately, which he discovered through taking Deleuze seriously for the first time about five years ago. People don't understand what a rigorous thinker Bergson really was, and because no one ever reads his books, they don't know what a good writer he was too. Adam Riggiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-80701897686167674762013-07-25T12:07:06.749-07:002013-07-25T12:07:06.749-07:00I like this developing thread on mind stuff, altho...I like this developing thread on mind stuff, although I'm not at all aware of the thought experiments you're referring to or the "rules of the game" in the subfields and sub-disciplines. <br /><br />I loved seeing Bergson's name treated with respect in your post of a few days ago. I've always encountered the 'failed thinker'/ 'mystic fraud' cliche about him but could never reconcile that with the high regard with which he was held by great thinkers and artists of the day. Good to see someone doing the hard work of getting the good Bergson back out in the open.<br /><br />Swamp Thing -- the mind as diffused through the environment? I can see how it appeals to your sensibilities! <br /><br />Alan Moore -- such a rich thinker. I would wager that he has the most nuanced understanding of genre and its relationship to our understanding of reality that I've encountered. Definitely can sustain a monograph, I would say, although not sure who would publish it. Certainly it has a lot to do with diffusion of identity, although I think for him that means something more like our identities are densely cultural, exist outside us in the broader cultural structures, ideational content, symbols and visions etc that fill us with the sense of glimpsing the transcendent, as old Blake was wont to experience. He seems to be close to Cassirer in the insistence that contingent myths are nevertheless de facto necessities, since that's where we really find ourselves.Tom Crosbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942888225118081569noreply@blogger.com