This is just awesome; and to think people pay to watch comedy like this
10/10; if he'd chosen stand-up he couldn't have made it work, but play this off seriously and it's hilarious
This is just awesome; and to think people pay to watch comedy like this
10/10; if he'd chosen stand-up he couldn't have made it work, but play this off seriously and it's hilarious
Honestly I think JP is both a vile piece of shit and a complete fucking joke academically, so it's fun to dunk on him but tbh it's this kind of thing he talks about that I don't dislike.
Like ultimately he's trying to argue there's actual truth in our poetic, animalistic relation to the world, and that the reduction of our relation to the world to taxonomic categories misses something important about what it means to be true.
In the most interesting chapter of Caliban and the Witch, Federici examines the idea that to create a disciplined proletariat required beating out of people all the weird, fantastic holistic worldviews that peasants had, that it was the only way to get people to show up to work on time.
IDK I'm in a rush rn but I like that he's refusing to cede all claims to truth to the scientific paradigm, and that's coming from someone who has a background in hard science.
Nah, he's bungling reciting an evopsych theory trying to validate eurocentric "all art about anything serpentine with a non-snake face is a dragon" bad anthropology. The whole "dragon means ur-scary thing and represents instinctual imprints of features of the most scary things of our distant ancestors' lives" theory relies on "dragon" even being any sort of consistent archetype, which it's not. European dragons might be villainous, predatory serpents aesthetically inspired by actual european/mediterranean animals or art/descriptions of said animals that their creators would have seen or at least heard about, but the things european explorers labeled as "dragons" from other cultures are not only radically different in aesthetics and sort of meta or narrative role (eg Chinese "dragons" being lucky, good things associated with divinity), but are also aesthetically inspired by local animals the creators of the art and stories would have seen and known.
The whole thing is actually very silly and chauvinist. It would be like some otaku weirdo trying to use old Egyptian god artwork as evidence that "catgirl waifu" is an innate archetype.
Wait it's not?!
So...Yu Gi OH?