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Lefebvre
I just got dressed and packed stuff up to visit the libraries on campus for some research and book scanning. So of course, it started raining again. I'm going tomorrow instead. My plan is to read all of "The Urban Revolution" today, and hopefully some of the Poli-Sci stuff. Then I can use the weekend for writings for the week and maybe even start looking for stuff for my term papers!
"The Urban Revolution" is slow going. The entire thing is full of metaphors like the following:
"These verbal layers, wandering about their native soil, are unable to attach themselves to a "philosophical subject" or a "privileged object" or a "historical totalization." We can look at them the way we look at various cloud layers from an airplane. Here, high above the earth, floating lightly, is the cirrus of ancient philosophy, the nimbus of rationality, and the heavy cumulus of scientism. They are language, or metalanguages, halfway between the real and the fictive, between the realized and the possible. The float freely, escaping the incantations of sorcerer philosophers."
I don't know whether to blame Lefebvre or the translator.
"The Urban Revolution" is slow going. The entire thing is full of metaphors like the following:
"These verbal layers, wandering about their native soil, are unable to attach themselves to a "philosophical subject" or a "privileged object" or a "historical totalization." We can look at them the way we look at various cloud layers from an airplane. Here, high above the earth, floating lightly, is the cirrus of ancient philosophy, the nimbus of rationality, and the heavy cumulus of scientism. They are language, or metalanguages, halfway between the real and the fictive, between the realized and the possible. The float freely, escaping the incantations of sorcerer philosophers."
I don't know whether to blame Lefebvre or the translator.