Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 01:16:48 +0200
From: Kitten alias Kociak <kociak-AT-usa.net>
Subject: Re: Doctor Doom


At 12:00 AM 25/6/98 EDT,  (un)leash wrote:

>In a different context, weren't this what gods

>were : societally empowered fictions? Does the future hold a postmodern Marvel

>Comics Voodoun for us?

While I would wholeheartedly agree with most of you post, I do have problems with the idea of fiction...

If not fiction then what?  Facts?  Now where do we get these from?  As all our experience is at least socially inscribed, we're left with no directly accessed reality but only more or less socially legitimate institutions, with a quite socially constructed division of fact vs. fiction to distribute them, which usually coincides with the equally socially constructed dichotomy of the real vs. the unreal

And here's a nice quote on the subject, by Paul Feyerabend:

"There is no other way out: we either call gods and quarks equally real, but tied to different circumstances, or we altogether cease talking about the study of things and use more complex ordering schemes instead"

		Paul Feyerabend (1987/94) "Farewell to Reason"  London: Verso s. 89



Kitten a.k.a. Kociak => kociak-AT-usa.net

"<color><param>ffff,0000,0000</param>I went away alone

	with nothing left but faith</color>"

		The Cure