/lit/ - Literature

I love that Dr. Jacoby was supposed to be an homage to Terence McKenna.

I posthumously agrdhjasfjdjdsag...jfdhsajgh

>>5223073
Is "Food Of The Gods" any good?

>>5223059
>mfw analytics write like this and then accuse continentals of being obfuscatory

>>5223081
It's alright. I personally find that his spoken word is far superior to any of his written work.

>>5223081
No.

McKenna is a fun guy and all, but his ideas on anthropology are silly at best.

>>5223087
Yeah, I tend to agree, as much as I love McKenna.

His lectures on Jung, alchemy, Hermeticism, culture, scientism and so on are pretty brilliant, though.

>>5223086
>>5223087
>>5223093
Okay, which of his books should I read instead? Just came across "Food" when I downloaded a torrent with all kinds of ebooks.

>>5223093
Not to mention his I Ching graph that supposedly predicted all past and future world events

>>5223059
Mr Sokal, is that you?

>Within post-structural semantic descriptions of abstracted frameworks, value statements are subjected to Bayesian modeling,
Naturally. We give a bayesian value to the assumed accuracy of a "semantic description". Basic phil 101

>but the fundamentally non-Aristotelian value is not inherent in the peripherally-empirical inter-subjective perception,
define "non-Aristotelian value"? I would say the only thing inherent *is* the non-Aristotelian value. Your first statement is testament to that.

>>5223105
His work in this book is pretty good. Otherwise, stick to his lectures. There's hundreds and hundreds of hours of them on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMPamVaTjJE

>OP confirmed for ripping of James Franco.

"While Aristotle wrote that a true definition gives the essence of the thing defined (in Greek to ti ên einai, literally "the what it was to be"), Francoism denies the existence of such an 'essence'. In this, Francoism purports to represent an evolution in human evaluative orientation.

In Francoism, it is always possible to give a description of empirical facts, but such descriptions remain just that -- descriptions -- which leave out many aspects of the objective, microscopic, and submicroscopic events they describe.

In Francoism, language, natural or otherwise (including the language called 'mathematics') can be used to describe the taste of an orange, but one cannot give the taste of the orange using language alone. The content of all knowledge is structure, so that language (in general) and science and mathematics (in particular) can provide people with a structural 'map' of empirical facts, but there can be no 'identity', only structural similarity, between the language (map) and the empirical facts as lived through and observed by people as humans-in-environments (including doctrinal and linguistic environments)."

--James Franco

>>5223059

DOCTOR JACOBY WHAT HAPPENED

>>5223136

ENOUGH with the BS fake Franco spam already

>>5223208
>This guy doesn't know about Francoism.

>>5223212
This is Francoism

http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/seth-abramsons-using-me/

>>5223136
Sweet Jesus, can based Franco get any more based?

>>5223523
When I heard the first time about him, I thought people were talking about Jesus Franco. Now that's a guy whose books I'd read.

>>5223136
That's Korzybski. Sorry Franco, you've been busted!

>>5223570
>That's Korzybski. Sorry Franco, you've been busted!
Oh rats! How about this then, from my new book?

"Francoistic determinism:

James Franco regards the problem of 'indeterminism vs. determinism' as the failure of pre-modern epistemologies to formulate the issue properly, as the failure to consider or include all factors relevant to a particular prediction, and failure to adjust our languages and linguistic structures to empirical facts.

James Franco resolves the issue in favor of determinism of a special kind called 'infinite-valued' based-Franco determinism, which always allows for the possibility that relevant 'causal' factors may be 'left out' at any given date, resulting in, if the issue is not understood at that date, 'indeterminism', which simply indicates that our ability to predict events has broken down, not that the world is 'indeterministic'.

James Franco considers all human behavior (including all human decisions) as, in principle, fully determined once all relevant doctrinal and linguistic factors are included in the analysis, regarding theories of 'free will' as failing to include the doctrinal and linguistic environments as environments in the analysis of human behavior."

―James Franco

>>5223084
Analytics don't write like this, you fucking retard.

>>5223136
>>5223807
i like this franco meme

>>5223852
nobody else does

>>5223807
metamodernistmanifesto.com

>>5223807
Oh Franco ... Korzybski again!

>>5223888

We've already established that "manifesto" is a hoax written by a postmodern poetry troll trying to discredit metamodernism. Quit using /lit/ to spam everybody senseless with it. Nobody cares.

>>5223084
Analytics write like Redditors

>>5223807