Non-14 Theses on
Someone-Other-Than-Feuerbach (This, for one, is
not a Marxist Joke!)
by Wallace
Runnymede
1. The
“theoretical attitude” is not the only
important attitude. What about reflexivity?
2. The
question of blogging accountability is not merely
a practical question, but also a scholastic one;
if not indeed an academic one.
3. The
educator must not only be an educator to
themselves, but at times, even a strict pedagogue.
Addendum: A strict
pedagogue reminds themselves not to domineer over
others. I am not to “educate” anyone
else.
4. One
cannot lift up the supposed solid Earth of “common
sense” into the Heaven of “academic
sense.” Nor can one bring down Heaven to
Earth. Rather, the word is near, and in my very
heart, did I but know it.
5. The
line between “abstract thinking” and
“contemplation,” insofar as it subsists
or exists, is a difficult one to draw.
6.
Excessive individuation of one’s self and of
one’s work risks abstracting excessively
from the context. But what is “excessive?”
7.
Academic reflection and reflector alike are
historically contingent (not to say “arbitrary.”)
8. There
is no “practical (re/)solution” to the
quandaries of academic reflection.
9. Appeals
to the affective cannot bridge the gap between
individual positionality and the broader context.
Nor can any dry, “theoreticist”
reflection. The gap is not one to be easily
sutured; nor, indeed, with difficulty.
10. There
is no pure “theoretical-civil”
standpoint, nor is there a pristine and authentic “social-positional”
standpoint. The knot is not there to be either
untied or admired; but to be acknowledged in fear
and trembling.
11. The
point is not to change the world or to interpret
it. One interprets, one takes the risk of letting
a seed fall out of one’s pocket while one’s
attention is directed elsewhere; and the increase
may be of God or of the devil… insofar as
the distinction is relevant.
12. Going
one better is not always better, worse, or the
same as going one short. Twelve is company…
13. But so
is thirteen.
Originally
published on http://wallacerunnymede.wordpress.com
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