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Just witnessed a political struggle between the School of Philosophy and the School of English for the right to claim methodological soundness and the correct form of truth-telling. The philosopher was rather outgunned, seeing as it was a School of English seminar. We could have shot him down by mentioning that philosophical discourse can be proved to be just as "fictive" in its form as any novel; I would also have drawn on Foucault to argue that the status of "methodological soundness" granted to certain forms of discursive practice is dependent on the episteme of their historical context rather than any objective standard - after all, alchemy and the theory of the humours were once deemed methodologically sound. As it was, someone mentioned Plato's Republic. That shut him up.

...You see, this is what I mean by pretension.

( Book meme )

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Spirited Away. My first anime. I liken.

I have discovered that when my TV/video starts to go wonky with rented tapes, fast-forwarding and then rewinding with the picture up fixes the whole thing. Anyone able to shed some insight on that?