Tyler

Any #academic want to talk about your current project? Reply and boost so we can learn from one another!

I’ll go first.

Currently I’m looking at the language in proverbs that typically gets mapped onto ethical categories of good (wise) and bad (foolish) behavior, and considering whether instead what we are reading in some cases is ancient descriptions of individuals with physical or even cognitive impairments. “A fool is a grief to his father and bitterness to she who bore him”

Nov 6, 2022 at 12:15amWeb
Show threadTylerNov 6, 2022

“The discerning sets his face toward wisdom but the fools eyes are on the end of the earth”

Instead of describing someone who is obstinate or willfully rebellious, some ANE parallels would suggest that these descriptions are using mentally or cognitively impaired individuals in aphoristic contexts, either to communicate the challenge that raising such individuals presents or as a negative analogy in the project of constructing an ideal “wise” community

Show threadJesse CohnNov 6, 2022
@Tmm Cool! I'm theorizing about new Black SF/fantasy/horror and what I see as a crisis of planetary modernity. My theory is that these authors are pointing to something beyond this ruinous modernity and its twin institutions, capitalism and the State.