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poliphilo The pedagogy annoys me. Machado De Oliveira is very prescriptive. "Don't react to my ideas in that way," she says "React to them in this way- and if you find them disturbing stop reading because you may not be ready for them" And I'm thinking, "Don't keep telling me how to read your book. I'll read it in my own way. I've read books, before, you know...."
The subject is Modernity- and how to deal with its deliquescence and ease it into its grave- but gently, gently while garnering whatever wisdom we might want to add to the ancestral store. I've just read a review by Eliza Daley, in the Magazine Reslience, which says, "Good book, but none of these ideas are exactly new. They're what people who are outside the system or within it but uneasy have been saying since Modernity began." Just so. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's going, "Yes, Vanessa, I like what you're saying, I resonate with it- but you're not a voice crying in the wilderness; come inside and join the choir..."
What is Modernity- and when did it begin? Defining a system from the inside is difficult. You need distance. We all agree that the system we're living with is exploitative, that it maintains itself by violence, that it serves the few at the expense of the many, that it separates human beings from one another and human beings from Nature, but, actually, I wouldn't call that Modernity, I'd call it Civilisation....
The subject is Modernity- and how to deal with its deliquescence and ease it into its grave- but gently, gently while garnering whatever wisdom we might want to add to the ancestral store. I've just read a review by Eliza Daley, in the Magazine Reslience, which says, "Good book, but none of these ideas are exactly new. They're what people who are outside the system or within it but uneasy have been saying since Modernity began." Just so. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's going, "Yes, Vanessa, I like what you're saying, I resonate with it- but you're not a voice crying in the wilderness; come inside and join the choir..."
What is Modernity- and when did it begin? Defining a system from the inside is difficult. You need distance. We all agree that the system we're living with is exploitative, that it maintains itself by violence, that it serves the few at the expense of the many, that it separates human beings from one another and human beings from Nature, but, actually, I wouldn't call that Modernity, I'd call it Civilisation....
