Comments for Douglas Floyd

Comment on Researching Quotes Through Collaboration by Ben Taylor

Ben Taylor — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:04:36 +0000

Great ideas, Doug! I’ll have to look into these.

Comment on Change and Boats by Benjamin Taylor

Benjamin Taylor — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:52:10 +0000

A question occurred to me: out of curiosity, how does your floydian language on “culture” and “change” translate in biblical language with terms like “kingdom,” “church,” “world,” etc?

Comment on We Used to Wait by Benjamin Taylor

Benjamin Taylor — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:52:18 +0000

Interesting that Kafka had a sign on the wall above his typewriter: “Wait!”

Comment on Change and Boats by admin

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:16:54 +0000

Thanks Ben. Very helpful. Yes, I wanted to think about all aspects life, so looking at mountain chains, creatures and methodologies help expend three direction so inquiry. Your comment about science makes me think about how we can have a group of people with vastly different ways of seeing and thinking can co-exist. We they try to speak between their worlds, the message is confused since they each in some ways speak a different language.

Comment on Change and Boats by Benjamin Taylor

Benjamin Taylor — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:41:42 +0000

Thanks Doug, and very interesting. This may be irrelevant to what you’re trying to do, but I couldn’t help but think of the relatively ancient which coexists alongside the relatively recent in “nature,” i.e. in the realms of the geological and biological. In the geological we have mountain chains such as the Himalayas (recent) and Appalachians (ancient). In the biological we humans (recent) co-exist alongside crocodiles (ancient). New species continue evolving, sometimes daily (even hourly!)alongside the old.
Relevant to what you’re talking about in culture, we could say that we have old and new modes of scientific inquiry which co-exist, e.g. the amateur store-bought telescope alongside the Hubble Space telescope. Or even more recently consider that it was largely Newtonian science which put us on the moon some forty years after the Einsteinian revolution in physics occurred. Lastly, and following TFT, consider how what is considered “science” in the popular mind is the outmoded Newtonian, mechanistic outlook which has been dead in the field of physics now for about a century. Hope this helps!