Posts tagged Umberto Eco

The dominant culture tolerates parasitic counter-cultures as more or less innocuous deviations, but it cannot accept critical…

Umberto Eco, culture, counter culture, critique, dominant paradigm, deviation

“The dominant culture tolerates parasitic counter-cultures as more or less innocuous deviations, but it cannot accept critical manifestations which call it [the dominant culture] into question. Counter-culture comes about when those who transform the culture in which they live become critically conscious of what they are doing and elaborate a theory of their deviation from the dominant model, offering a model that is capable of sustaining itself.”

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Umberto Eco

our interpretations of the world are necessary tools for making sense of it, but fixing onto these beliefs as if they revealed…

reality, perception, chaos, Umberto Eco, the nature of things

“our interpretations of the world are necessary tools for making sense of it, but fixing onto these beliefs as if they revealed the true nature of things can be dangerous. The world is always more chaotic than the order our closed systems of signs impose.”

–Brent Ables (on the work of Umberto Eco)