hooser
26d ago
Oh yeah, he definitely did it for the effect ripping out a book page had on others. Anti-fetishism, like you said. The effect only worked because most people get a bit of book fetishism drummed into them from an early age. Like, book burning is what totalitarian regimes do.
hooser
26d ago
There are two kinds of book lovers: those who love the form, and those who love the substance. Back before electronic readers, I dated a guy who would buy a book to read on his flight, and tear out pages that he already read. To lessen his baggage load. Horrified this librarian we knew.
These are what the Humanities folks call "interpretive frameworks". (also "critical perspective", or "theoretical framework", though "theory" means something different to them than to scientists) You can examine whatever you want (a diner menu, say) "through the lens" of one of such frameworks (feminist theory of Judith Butler, say), to arrive at hidden patterns (like, notice that eggs are cheaper than sausages, hmmm...).
The practitioners say that the point is insight, not proof. I suspect that the point is to test rhetorical innovation.
In Humanities, success isn't about correctly predicting the physical world. Success is in coming up with ideas that people will discuss, or better yet passionately argue. So the more your idea is like a Shiri statement, the better it is for you.
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