Jan. 31st, 2010

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What this does is gives us the guitar from Laura Branigan's version of "Self Control" but then seemingly pastes in the vocals from the Raf version ('cause you can't have girls singing a man's game). And then of course the world gets destroyed, but that's not as impressive as rooting one's 2010 violence in a deep knowledge of '80s Italodisco.

(h/t girlboymusic and scores of other tumblrites)

EDIT: OK, it does seem to be the Raf version that's pasted in, but it was also pasted into the Branigan version about two minutes in, if I'm reading Wiki right ("was repeated" could mean "copied" rather than "pasted in"): "A vocal break from the Raf version was repeated and paired with a sharper and repeated percussive element." So our hockey videoist might well only know the Branigan version.
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Int: In Philosophy And The Mirror of Nature, you attacked Putnam's early philosophy. What do you think of his more recent work?

Rorty: I think our views are practically indistinguishable, but he doesn't. He thinks I'm a relativist and he isn't. And I think: if I'm a relativist, then he's one too.

Int: Why do you think Putnam sees you as a relativist?

Rorty: Beats me. I wrote an article about it, but that was as far as I got.

. . .

Int: Do you disagree with any of Davidson's views?

Rorty: I can't think of anything we really disagree about that doesn't seem to me a verbal issue, but Davidson may have a different view of the matter. Well, one thing is that he keeps saying truth is an absolutely central concept, and I can't see what makes it central or basic. I take Davidson to be saying that truth, belief, meaning, intention, rationality, cognitivity - all these notions are parts of a seamless web, and that seems to me a useful point to make, that you can't have any of these notions without all the others. It's just that he then wants to say, "And truth is in the middle." I can't see why you have to have a middle.

Int: Putnam has also criticized you for deemphasizing truth.

Rorty: Putnam keeps saying that you have to have what he calls "substantive truth." I take Davidson to be saying: there's not much pointing in saying truth is substantive. I don't think Davidson has any better idea than I do what Putnam means by that. Nonetheless, he somehow attaches a weight to the notion that I can't seem to attach to it.

--Interview with Richard Rorty in January 1995 by Joshua Knobe

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Here's the theme-song to a Japanese videogame* that's sung in English by a Chinese woman (Faye Wong) who was born in Beijing but originally rose to fame singing in Cantonese rather than Mandarin. But the reason I post it (Faye Wong sings it well, but she's done more interesting stuff) is that when I heard it I thought to myself, "I bet she's covering a song by a country diva" thinking that this was the sort of song a country diva aiming to hit the adult contemporary market might have sung about thirty years ago. So my question would be, who else who isn't country would be likely to sing something like this? (One answer: Faye Wong, though I gather that this sort of thing was less and less a part of her repertoire as she went on. She's still a subject for further research, my having seen her name for the first time four days ago.)



*Final Fantasy VIII, which I gather isn't just a game, but a whole franchise, a combination videogame and Taco Bell.

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