"time"
- Started 21 years ago
- Last post 21 years ago
- 26 Responses
- aliendn0
its taking alot of time to read about time, so by the time i find out about time, i'l have none left...how much does that suck?
- ribit0
I think it's hard to read because it's really self-referential (is that the right term?), convoluted and poetic, rather than a serious (effective?) attempt to communicate ideas.
- ********0
Yes it is highly self-referential (i'll go with you on that one) convoluted and poetic. But it is also a serious (effective) attempt to communicate ideas.It's actually a classic politics work from the 1960s that is one of the main texts of this thing we now call post-modernism. Landmark work. I read it as a student and understood only like 20%. But i read it again afterwards and now i understand about 60-70%.
- ribit0
But would have been more effective if it was more accessible? You know, like they would write in the Economist...
- ********0
Yeah. There's lots of guides and summaries and things for the work available. Just check amazon and google. There's so much written on it. Also it's a very academic piece designed purely for an academic audience. It's not meant for mass the masses, and you kinda need a degree in philosphy/politics to get it. But i know there's more accessible stuff out there which makes it clearer. Very very interesting i think so.
- ribit0
I thought more "load of gibberish" or "manifesto of quasi-facts that we are going to tell you without any real justification"...but then I guess I need to take a day off sometime and read the whole thing through to really make a judgement...