Everything Liguistic (at the very least, probably everything conceptual at all) is a metaphor if we take de Saussure seriously, along with all european Semiotics. If everything we say or concieve points at and is "reperesentative" of something else...then shazaam...all metaphor. remember coherance doesn't just mean truth it comes from a model of truth whereby items don't interfere with each other and refer to each other...one huge train of reference....
(mind you this is a horrible paraphrase) "everything is metaphor, metonomy, or anthropomophism" , Nietzsche for those of you who hate systems.
the trick is making sure our models, scientific or not, reinforce a world that we'd like to live in.
Why would anyone buy a 486 PC with an anemic 16 mgs of ram and tiny drive options...when one can purchase an elegant fast G4 cube...
Honestly, I worry about some people
Fox really let lose a stinker when they released this film. The plot was horrid, the dialogue was insulting to even the 5 year olds in the crowd, and the "Space-Ace" 2D character animation was anything but beautiful. I went as a member of a group of 8 Philosophy Ph D canadates. Some were high, some were drunk, some (myself included) were sadly sober for driving purposes. The Sober people left feeling insulted robbed and pissed. The Drunk People had to be woken at the credits. The High people were outraged. If a fully stoned man yells at the end of a film, "FUCK! That was the worst dialogue ever!" you know that the writing process fell somewhere below random monkey typing and govenment manual production. The 3D backgrounds were pretty but there was all this crap on top of it. Namely, ALL the sound (words and shitty soundtrack) and the poorly realised flat characters. Give me Grave of the Fireflies, Ghost in the Shell, hell even Pokemon...just never ever make me watch this film again!
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Everything Liguistic (at the very least, probably everything conceptual at all) is a metaphor if we take de Saussure seriously, along with all european Semiotics. If everything we say or concieve points at and is "reperesentative" of something else...then shazaam...all metaphor. remember coherance doesn't just mean truth it comes from a model of truth whereby items don't interfere with each other and refer to each other...one huge train of reference.... (mind you this is a horrible paraphrase) "everything is metaphor, metonomy, or anthropomophism" , Nietzsche for those of you who hate systems. the trick is making sure our models, scientific or not, reinforce a world that we'd like to live in.
Why would anyone buy a 486 PC with an anemic 16 mgs of ram and tiny drive options...when one can purchase an elegant fast G4 cube... Honestly, I worry about some people
Fox really let lose a stinker when they released this film. The plot was horrid, the dialogue was insulting to even the 5 year olds in the crowd, and the "Space-Ace" 2D character animation was anything but beautiful. I went as a member of a group of 8 Philosophy Ph D canadates. Some were high, some were drunk, some (myself included) were sadly sober for driving purposes. The Sober people left feeling insulted robbed and pissed. The Drunk People had to be woken at the credits. The High people were outraged. If a fully stoned man yells at the end of a film, "FUCK! That was the worst dialogue ever!" you know that the writing process fell somewhere below random monkey typing and govenment manual production. The 3D backgrounds were pretty but there was all this crap on top of it. Namely, ALL the sound (words and shitty soundtrack) and the poorly realised flat characters. Give me Grave of the Fireflies, Ghost in the Shell, hell even Pokemon...just never ever make me watch this film again!