For the first time, I feel like what the readings are giving me consist of unmitigated, barely intellectually salvageable bullshit. Especially this Sullivan reading....good God, visual arts posing as a branch of cognitive research! How utterly useless! Doubly so since much of the subject matter is contemporary art, 90% of which is merely brain vomit intelligible only to a few dumb-ass artists. (Thank you, ARC, for retaining loyalty to the "figurative tradition" these frightfully self-centered moderns so ironically mock.)
This crap gives Chomsky and his cognitive science buddies a bad name. But then again, anything that makes Chomsky look like the crap shoveler he really is may be a good thing.
A warning to all who will be there when I report on this crap...the reporter will be a skeptic who, deep down, can't believe he has to take seriously what he just read. Do not expect much enthusiasm or verve.
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