Episode #116 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 1

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[elijaguy]

0:52 is polarity inevitable here? perhaps a continuous interaction between culture molding individuals and individuals molding their cultures, all the time, everywhere?

[keegster]

I love Ferdinand de Saussure!! I’m so glad you mentioned him. But to me, he’s a linguist

[teopasca]

"you didn't come out the womb waving at everyone"

[JH-jicj]

2 minutes in and already I have a problem with the idea that babies _don't wave_ first thing after leaving the womb. You also 'wave' when drowning as a reflexive attention cevice meant to indicate need or want of attention.

I'll keep liatening, but the idea that cutures 'make-up' or coerce subjects over co-opting natural or innate behaviors seems the opposite of how social structure emerges?

[FranciscoAlvRai]

The knowledge in myth is only hidden to the literal eyes of the modern folk, but there's nothing obtuse about it nor is it trying to be. It's the most direct way you can say something at that level of complexity.
Also, to call propaganda technics a kind of mythology is a gross reductionist misrepresentation.

[mattgilbert]

This is excellent work.
When I go to your site and click on the link to the transcript to episodes 116 and 117, the link takes me to the transcript for ep 113 (Frankfurt School) which is an episode I have listened to, and I did go to the transcript for some quote-mining :) I wonder if the problem is at my end? I'd really like to be able to extract a few lines from the transcripts to these Structuralist episodes, for the purposes of sharing, or as a bit of "clickbait" when I share the audio to my Facebook. More people should be following your podcasts, and I'd like to think that by sharing, I'm maybe helping to bring a few more listeners to this excellent channel.
Thanks, Steven.

[christinemartin]

Yeah, I can see how this would be. We are free to swim however we want--but are confined to the limits of our pool (i.e., context of our birth).

[PeterZeeke]

This vocalises something I could never articulate my entire life

[connerfields]

Didn't the pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Pierce also found a more complex and technical version of semiotics at the same time?

[mobiditch]

I get waved at a lot...but curiously they’re all missing four fingers.

So, if I'm in a pool and I'm swimming it's not me swimming but the structural push of the water imposing it's cultural assumptions on me? :)

[samthesomniator]

Interpretation of Mythology as a factual story. That is the thing with creationism. 😂

[connerfields]

"God decides he needs to shake the etch-a-sketch and Noah needs to build an ark".

[brianharris]

The way the presenter mangles the surname of Roland Barthes really grates on my ears; it should sound like Bart and not Bars because final S is nearly always silent in French words. This is on par with saying René Dess Cars. Next time he should spend the two minutes at most it takes to track down the right pronunciation online. It's on Wikipedia, for goodness sake!

[frederickanderson]

Stupid reasoning its obvious that any stupid person who meditates too much. Philosophers think to much and always never come to a final conclusion.

[puneetsharma]

this is completely bs, you can make up any meaning out of stories you like, from the most immoral story you can map so really valuable moral.