A totally sensible position: "We can treat just about anything *as if* it is text, and given the sophistication of our ability to deal with text, that should lead to some insights."
A totally bullshit position that no one should ever have tolerated for a minute: "Everything is text." On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 12:01 AM jon zingale <[email protected]> wrote: > With respect to Foucault, I wish to express gratitude to him for his > introduction to 'Madness and Civilization'[⛵]. He gives a brief and > engaging account of how the treatment of madmen in European society > underwent a notable inversion, and to my unkeen eye, one paralleled in > both the treatment of garbage and conception of national parks in the > west. Foucault recounts: > > "Renaissance men developed a delightful, yet horrible way of dealing with > their mad denizens: they were put on a ship and entrusted to mariners > because folly, water, and sea, as everyone then "knew," had an affinity > for each other. Thus, "Ships of Fools" crisscrossed the seas and canals > of Europe with their comic and pathetic cargo of souls. Some of them > found pleasure and even a cure in the changing surroundings, in the > isolation of being cast off, while others withdrew further, became worse, > or died alone and away from their families. The cities and villages which > had thus rid themselves of their crazed and crazy, could now take > pleasure in watching the exciting sideshow when a ship full of foreign > lunatics would dock at their harbors." > > In other words, Europe's madmen were relegated to a life of perpetual > *outside*. But soon for polite Renaissance society, this quickly became > a nuisance, and leper colonies slowly came to replace their lepers with > madmen. Inside became the new outside. Similarly, it no longer made sense > to throw one's slop and filth from the window and into the streets below. > Comically, Europe took a little longer (the 1800s), than with their > madmen, to realize that *outside* was just no good[♨]. A paradigm shift > in the west focused on designating landfills to *contain* and cover > society's waste. Finally, as the compact manifold, we call Earth bore for > us no more wilderness to discover, her denizens quickly realized their > need for it. Special *inside* outsides came to be designated as national > parks, an outside with an entrance fee, spaces where one pays not to > re-enter society, but to leave it. > > [⛵] > > https://monoskop.org/images/1/14/Foucault_Michel_Madness_and_Civilization_A_History_of_Insanity_in_the_Age_of_Reason.pdf > > [♨] > https://www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/research/research-projects/historiclandfill/ > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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