Postmodern mathematics

[robinturner]

From some lecture note on Irigaray:

The phallogocentric system generates many binary oppositions; one of which is: penis/vagina/nothing/clitoris/labia

.Only a postmodernist could manage a five-way binary opposition. Maybe we should get these people to design CPUs.

Comments

[subbes]

Oh, Luce...

[alexgal.livejournal.com]

postmodernism is mind-cogling.

i am coggled.

[alsoname.livejournal.com]

HAH!

[ironed_orchid]

Have you read anything by SF author Greg Egan?

In Terranesia he gives a scathing account of pomo feminist mathematics.

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[solri.livejournal.com]

I've not come across him - sounds fun.

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

Get that guy to write system documents for M$.

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[solri.livejournal.com]

The Microsoft style would be more like (imagine an animated paper-clip in the corner) ....

Would you like to have a penis?

• Yes
• No
• Tell me more about penises.

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[alsoname.livejournal.com]

The correct plural is penes.

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[solri.livejournal.com]

I think word-building should follow the conventions of the host language rather than the donor language. Thus the correct plural of "virus" is "viruses", not "viri" (people who write "virii" really crack me up - I mean if you,'re going to be pedantic about Latin, then learn some Latin first).

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[alsoname.livejournal.com]

But some of those Latin pluralizations are SO MUCH FUN! What sequence of phonemes would you rather roll off your tongue: "retinas" or "retinae"? YOU KNOW YOU WANT THE LATIN!

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[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

huh huh ...
... with the appropriate WAV; something "world beat", nesapasu?

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

When ppl say "postmodernist" my ass begins to twitch. (If you know what this refers to--other than a twitching ass--you have attained a higher level of being...)