Tuesday, August 31, 2010
PHENOMENOLOGY AND POPULAR CULTURE
Re Plato's Pop Culture Problem, and Ours Editorial, re Arnold Schwarzenegger and Plato,
I had not read this editorial when this post was first written, but just now saw it. I had even written the commissioner/councillor bit before reading it! Rather a coincidence really, my reference to a video store and nude dancing themes.
The NYT professor comes out, I think, favoring 'freedom' of property and press, regardless of where the chips fall re Plato, or Aeschylus. Doesn't he, more or less, have to? Perhaps I overstate his affiliations with the publication.
Could one ask for any better, more overt, connection between the freedom of the market place, constitutional expression and property rights of pornographers, and the American intellectual establishment?
He claims that Plato had ignored the distinction between the medium and the reality depicted in it. I would have thought, rather, that had been part of Plato's point.
His is really a sophistical defense of freedom of speech, wrapped in a lot of philosophical twaddle.
Could it have been any other way?
Cf. another (phenomenologist existentialist) philosopher, with 'flexible' views: Martin Heidegger, (I don't know whether he was good looking or not, but that is important to Americans),'Anything Goes', with popular culture.
Perhaps a mise en scene for a cartoon, with Andrew Martin, Sartre, Heidegger, this editorial author, and even perhaps Governor Scharzenegger (as an enforcer), would be in order?
Theme music: (IT REALLY SELDOM GETS BETTER THAN THIS, RE PHENOMENOLOGY THEME):
LOST IN A MASQUERADE
Think also, Carnival of Venice
and , oh why not say it,
DON GIOVANNI
I had not read this editorial when this post was first written, but just now saw it. I had even written the commissioner/councillor bit before reading it! Rather a coincidence really, my reference to a video store and nude dancing themes.
The NYT professor comes out, I think, favoring 'freedom' of property and press, regardless of where the chips fall re Plato, or Aeschylus. Doesn't he, more or less, have to? Perhaps I overstate his affiliations with the publication.
Could one ask for any better, more overt, connection between the freedom of the market place, constitutional expression and property rights of pornographers, and the American intellectual establishment?
He claims that Plato had ignored the distinction between the medium and the reality depicted in it. I would have thought, rather, that had been part of Plato's point.
His is really a sophistical defense of freedom of speech, wrapped in a lot of philosophical twaddle.
Could it have been any other way?
Cf. another (phenomenologist existentialist) philosopher, with 'flexible' views: Martin Heidegger, (I don't know whether he was good looking or not, but that is important to Americans),'Anything Goes', with popular culture.
Perhaps a mise en scene for a cartoon, with Andrew Martin, Sartre, Heidegger, this editorial author, and even perhaps Governor Scharzenegger (as an enforcer), would be in order?
Theme music: (IT REALLY SELDOM GETS BETTER THAN THIS, RE PHENOMENOLOGY THEME):
LOST IN A MASQUERADE
Think also, Carnival of Venice
and , oh why not say it,
DON GIOVANNI
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