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

Thu Sep 15 16:41:41 CEST 2011

HI Tadit,

just to say I'm reading your contributions, even if I don't reply; right
now, I'm about to leave for a 20-day lecture  tour, so my connectivity will
be less, with delays in responding expected,

Michel

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:00 AM, <ideasinc at ee.net> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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