tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post4155077119965365727..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: I CAN KNOW, BUT YOU CAN'TUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-49725196986122092010-10-01T10:50:08.987-06:002010-10-01T10:50:08.987-06:00Samuel R. Delany wrote a graphic novel called &quo...Samuel R. Delany wrote a graphic novel called "Empire" that deals with this very topic (art by Howard Chaykin). The premise was that those who control the flow of information and knowledge control the political economic aspects of empire as well. The book also used catastrophe theory, which was an early precursor of chaos theory, as part of the plot, culminating in how the knowledge-controlling empire was brought down.<br /><br />I know Delany has read Derrida, and most of the other theorists. I've read Derrida's bookk on Nietzsche, and a little bit more; it's work, but not impossible. I've read a lot of Foucault and Barthes, too, although I have to say at this point I find all such theoretical reading hollow anymore if it isn't applicable to practice. In my universe, theory follows praxis and always must; a lot of bad art is made when theory dictates praxis, rather than follow along behind it.<br /><br />I don't count myself as a member of the leisure class, except lately as enforced by illness, but rather a voracious reader. It's that hunger to find things out for oneself, and to know.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.com