Frank Zappa Appreciation Thread

[jadis]

Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

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A conceptual "site" where stuff be contested?

I thought that it's one of my many calques from French and while it is that too, a Google search in English turns up "about 136,000 results" and in quite a few of those, "sites" refers not to physical but conceptual spaces.

"The sessions will feature a multi-faceted reflection on the ways in which the liberal arts become sites of contestation and sources of consolation in times of historical crisis." - you get the idea.

The larger framework is of course Nietzsche as read by Deleuze and Foucault.

[Terrapin_Station]

Originally Posted by jadis

A conceptual "site" where stuff be contested?

I thought that it's one of my many calques from French and while it is that too, a Google search in English turns up "about 136,000 results" and in quite a few of those, "sites" refers not to physical but conceptual spaces.

"The sessions will feature a multi-faceted reflection on the ways in which the liberal arts become sites of contestation and sources of consolation in times of historical crisis." - you get the idea.

The larger framework is of course Nietzsche as read by Deleuze and Foucault.

I'm not at all a fan of continentalism, and I'm a physicalist, so . . . lol

Concepts are physical things in particular brains in my view.

[jadis]

Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

I'm not at all a fan of continentalism, and I'm a physicalist, so . . . lol

Concepts are physical things in particular brains in my view.

Haha yeah I'm used to coming up against this wall - or others coming up against my wall - in philosophy circles. Let's say I've been the beneficiary of the "well, if we absolutely must have some random adjunct teach to our students the incomprehensible verbal diarrhea of those weird, nihilistic, godawful French homosexuals who have no interest in The Truth and Universal Logick, let us then get one of them clowns from lit studies, who had chunks on Foucault in his PhD on the likes of Blanchot and Klossowski and who reads all that garbage in the original. He regards all philosophy as no more than literature anyway, his view of language is derived from Benveniste and Barthes, not Frege and Quine, which will show our students how intellectually unserious he is, and they'll regret ever demanding courses on Foucault and come around to the sound ways" attitude...