Tag: cultural relativism

• Fool’s Gold (Notes on Lodge 49), pt 1

  Last time, on Suspended Reason… Why is [Moby Dick] white? He is white, and very much blank, because he personifies […] the indefinable, “the universe” rather than the world of people, that which refuses to be nailed down to a particular meaning. […]  Each character has a different response to the unknowable white whale, who…

  suspendedreason

  September 11, 2023

  Essays

  all communication is manipulation, charisma, cultural relativism, depressive ontology, disenchantment, ecology of practice, enchantment, framing, G.K. Chesterton, Herman Melville, hyperstition, literature, Lodge 49, magic, Max Weber, panacea, pragmatism, Randall Collins, reflexivity, Roman Polanski, Sarah Perry, television, The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon, utopia, vibe, vibe theory

• Primitive Peacemakers, pt 1: The Fall of Jordan Peterson

  This is the beginning of a 5-part series, whose alternate titles might run: “Metarationality & the Frame Problem,” “Function/Form/Fluidity,” and “Cultural Relativism for Rationalists.” It aims to trace a throughline in taoist, pragmatist, and postmodern thinking, and to introduce a certain meta-systematic school of blogosphere philosophy which has crystallized around the frame problem in microsociology,…

  suspendedreason

  April 1, 2023

  Blog, Essays

  cultural relativism, discursive diplomacy, frame problem, framing, Jordan B. Peterson, pragmatism