tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post7167714562427141872..comments2023-11-05T07:27:43.837-05:00Comments on Narrative and Technology: Graded Blog - Option 1Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-27061586516415274082008-01-31T14:36:00.000-05:002008-01-31T14:36:00.000-05:00Let me begin with a question. Do we humans really...Let me begin with a question. <BR/><BR/>Do we humans really think new things every day? That really depends on what we mean by thinking, of course. Using an ordinary, everyday definition of thinking, it's easy to say "of course we do." For instance, I have never read (until today) some of the responses to Lyotard that I'm seeing. Somewhere, someone is thinking of adding cinnamon to a stir-fry - someone is thinking of a new way to cook.<BR/><BR/>But is this really what Lyotard means by "thinking"? You do rather well at the beginning exploring the identity Lyotard creates between thinking and suffering (strange, though, that you present this as a passage other people haven't been working with - many people have!). But if there is such an identity between thinking and suffering, between thought and feeling (which is how you put, I think), then are we _really_ thinking most of the time we think we are?<BR/><BR/>Although you acknowledge Lyotard's difficulty, you aren't recognizing at least one of the critical ways in which he is strange - he does not understand even "thinking" in a conventional way...Adam Johnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11588769281227456640noreply@blogger.com