“Nature” is “the consequence of [a] settlement” of “controversies”.
- Bruno Latour, quoted in Feyerabend’s 1992 Preface to Against Method, x
“Creation of a thing, and creation plus full understanding of a correct idea of the thing, are very often parts of one and the same indivisible process and cannot be separated without bringing the process to a stop”
Feyerabend, Against Method (1992), 17
By Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.
“We cannot call for the defence of the Western world.”
In 1956, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer sat down to write an updated version of the Communist Manifesto. These are previously unpublished notes from their discussions.
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Bishop Berkeley’s Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America I’m back and forth on that one. (That question! — the poem is a dud.) |
http://goodcompanyclub.tripod.com/rumymother.htm
But surely steamshovels move real things. There must be more there than spirits & ideas.
