Comments on: Half-Centaur, Half-Chimera: Humanism and Science Fiction http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/2010/03/half-centaur-half-chimera-humanism-and-science-fiction/ Futures, Options, and Swaps (the weblog of Alan DeNiro) Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:35:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alan http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/2010/03/half-centaur-half-chimera-humanism-and-science-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-520138 Alan Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:11:24 +0000 http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/?p=1225#comment-520138 I hope I am David, at least. Those 2 poles are things I'd like to avoid at all costs. "Spot the sellout" became old in 1999 or so I think. I wish my new site redesign had a search bar (need to fix that) but I've written a lot of posts throughout the years on "ambition" and my views really haven't changed from those posts. Also, I know I might be coming across as cryptically strident, or stridently cryptic, but I hope I'm working toward something re: humanism without the mind-body dichotomy. I hope I am David, at least. Those 2 poles are things I’d like to avoid at all costs. “Spot the sellout” became old in 1999 or so I think. I wish my new site redesign had a search bar (need to fix that) but I’ve written a lot of posts throughout the years on “ambition” and my views really haven’t changed from those posts.

Also, I know I might be coming across as cryptically strident, or stridently cryptic, but I hope I’m working toward something re: humanism without the mind-body dichotomy.

]]> By: David Moles http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/2010/03/half-centaur-half-chimera-humanism-and-science-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-520133 David Moles Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:20:00 +0000 http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/?p=1225#comment-520133 <i>(As well as the obsession about “getting paid,” in awards and $$$ through the embrace of mediocrity, for its own sake. But that’s another post.)</i> I'd like to read that other post. This isn't the first gesture toward it you've made lately, and it's got me starting to wonder who you're really angry with. Because it reads somewhere between a high modernist gentleman amateur's contempt for professionalism and a 20th century white bourgeois dilettante's disdain for the sellout -- either way naively unproblematized and badly in need of deconstruction. I'd like to think you're too postmodern and too hiphop to fall into those traps. (Once we've got that cleared up, I'll be happy to talk about chimeras and big pharma and the continued salience of Sterling's "Cyberpunk in the Nineties" and Zizek's charmingly quaint construction of "human nature" till the cows come home.) (As well as the obsession about “getting paid,” in awards and $$$ through the embrace of mediocrity, for its own sake. But that’s another post.)

I’d like to read that other post. This isn’t the first gesture toward it you’ve made lately, and it’s got me starting to wonder who you’re really angry with. Because it reads somewhere between a high modernist gentleman amateur’s contempt for professionalism and a 20th century white bourgeois dilettante’s disdain for the sellout — either way naively unproblematized and badly in need of deconstruction. I’d like to think you’re too postmodern and too hiphop to fall into those traps.

(Once we’ve got that cleared up, I’ll be happy to talk about chimeras and big pharma and the continued salience of Sterling’s “Cyberpunk in the Nineties” and Zizek’s charmingly quaint construction of “human nature” till the cows come home.)

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