i always appreciate reading through blogs and coming across some article you've found and posted. unfortunately this one made me sorry that i'm not well-read enough in the subject to understand all the references (and when everything's post- or anti- or proto- something, it helps to know what that something is and on and on...) but the parts i did understand were very interesting.
it's difficult to reduce any concept to the one right way to think about ideas or art because part of the nature of these things (in my view, anyway) is that they are inherently multifaceted. reading a book from a different culture can give you a picture of what life is like in that culture and how it's different from yours, but it can simultaneously highlight the things that are similiar to your experience, and both of these uses are equally valid... trying to reduce things to one or the other is mostly just good for having something to argue about. but i suppose at the same time that makes people think more and come up with new ideas about things.....
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it's difficult to reduce any concept to the one right way to think about ideas or art because part of the nature of these things (in my view, anyway) is that they are inherently multifaceted. reading a book from a different culture can give you a picture of what life is like in that culture and how it's different from yours, but it can simultaneously highlight the things that are similiar to your experience, and both of these uses are equally valid... trying to reduce things to one or the other is mostly just good for having something to argue about. but i suppose at the same time that makes people think more and come up with new ideas about things.....
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