Re: [-empyre-] Vog applications

[Jill Walker <jill.walker@uib.no>]

At 8:59 -0500 22/6/02, Patrick Lichty wrote:
> This is for two reasons - first, at one time or another, various thinkers
> get overused, like Baudrillard and Foucault in the early 90's, Deleuze in
> the mid to late 90s and recently Benjamin.  This is merely a sin of
> familiarity, and only a product of a common cultural meme going around.

I'm busy reading about emergence theory, which has me completely 
hooked (I'm good at going very enthusiastic about new things I 
encounter ;) and seen from that perspective this would not be 
necessarily a bad thing at all, not a sin, not "only a product of a 
common cultural meme" but au contraire a lovely example of a 
self-organising system producing emergent knowledge. All the ants in 
the ant hill thinking about the same thing - that's wonderful, 
really, isn't it?

Of course in terms of personal and individual ambition it's always 
more useful to be at the forefront of an emergent phenonomen than at 
the tail end of it, so once somethign's that used I suppose one needs 
to move on?

This isn't a disagreement just a digression really ;)

Jill