It's the old semantic paradox that calling something "complex" is either a means of reducing complexity, or of clouding simple facts. But by itself, the word "complex" means nothing. It deserves a top entry in a postmodern dictionary of received ideas yet to be written.
-F On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Dean, Jodi <jd...@hws.edu> wrote: > Thank you, Brian. I agree with much of what you've written below, > especially: > > It is the neutrality of intellectuals, the > propensity to take refuge in an abstracted vision of "complexity," and > the willingness to be on the take but not on the give, that has, in > part, led to this pass. <...> -- Kenniscentrum Creating 010, Hogeschool Rotterdam finger fcra...@pleintekst.nl # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org