[P2P-F] A Critique of Lazy Reason..../ lazy economics

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Michel B,

Ok, regarding the paper "A Critique of Lazy Reason" by Boadventura DeSousa  
Santos, it seems like a useful agenda certainly, and a project that dates  
back to both the disjunction of the logic of being against the logics of  
substitution and of appearance by means of various sociologies of absence,  
or emergence and of capacities. I am more familiar with the discourse of  
hermeneutics through the social sciences and social philosophies as  
interpretative sociology, as per the tracking of cosmological  
interpretations. Economics is exceptionally perverse as a colonizing set  
of assumptions, More popular versions of economics will often require  
sequential translations, to identify the absences, the emergences, and the  
capacities. As noted the translation process will be at least dyadic if  
not multilingual, building up a common stock of knowledge in the process.

Though the content and intentions are worthy, I had difficulty with the  
mass of the material being written from largely outside of critical  
sociology and of social hermeneutics as intended by Max Weber, and others.  
Santos will find receptive co-workers already busy at this project.

Parmenides in his time already named the colonizing rhetorics as twin  
headed, know nothings. That this sort of lineage of discourse has  
occasionally sputtered to life and then drifted off stage for many reasons  
and persuasions, is an unfortunate fact of hegemonic and "positivistic"  
social science. Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind is on close analysis obliged  
to address capacities and diversity, cf Walter Davis's "Being and  
Existence."

Using this as a useful framing will work a a meta-process, and it will  
require a stepwise process of translation. Foremost at risk will be the  
popular speculations and pseudo emergences that stop short of being also  
examined as also a colonial branding of poorly translated expectations not  
quite into practice.

What would have been my dissertation was toward a hermeneutics of everyday  
life, even by way of zones of contact and translation.

As a general framework for both weeding out neo-classical and colonial  
assumptions toward an open space framing could have some unexpected coding  
dissonance.

as we go, Tadit Anderson