philosophy prof at FernUniversität Hagen: https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/philosophie/lg1/ | views are my own |
blogging at: http://handlingideas.blog |
current project: reading as a social practice: https://reading.fernuni-hagen.de/
Martin Lenz
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"But we’re at odds without noticing it, because what’s in front of us, the written ironic text, doesn’t reveal the mismatch of purposes. Neither the writers nor the readers are stupid. But they’re out of sync. They do not form an interpretive community."
Una tantum vera doctrina philosophica est — et Paulus Boghossianus atque sodales eius sunt veraces prophetae rectarum doctrinarum:
"The reason most work is bad is that most of us are stupid and incompetent. If we weren't left wing we would still be stupid and incompetent."
"The idea of a digital university is predicated on the informational fallacy, namely the fallacy that the text is equal to its informational content."
Lavinia Marin
Apropos the "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities" by Boghossian et al. I'm reminded of Eric Schliesser's fine piece "The Letter against Derrida’s Honorary Degree, re-examined":
The book that inspired me was actually Lavinia Marin's PhD dissertation: philpapers.org/rec/MARFTT-2
Groundhog Day in the Humanities
#vanderbiltreport
Stupid readers? The significance of cooperation in online communication
Stupid readers? The significance of cooperation in online communication
