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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 94 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"Conceptual metaphors for time, importing structure from our understanding of space, enable us to consciously reflect on time and externalise conceptions in language, for the purposes of meaning-making. But in no sense does this mean that for us, time isn't real, or foundational."
Aug 11, 2018 04:54AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 90 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"the temporal and spatial representations that underlie language can be, in principle, dissociated at the neurological level."
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 68 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"And an intonation unit always occurs within a 2- to 3-second range....But if it's too long, working memory can't perform the necessary integration" - languages with longer intonation units are more difficult to understand?
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The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 65 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"Our experience of time is directly tied to the functioning of our bodies..."
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The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 56 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"But the truth is this: language still provides us with arguably a better means of probing the hidden resources of our thoughts than any of the neuroimaging techniques presently available." - no kidding.
Aug 10, 2018 05:05AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 51 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"Charlie Brookner is able to construct a humourous narrative...." it's humourous because its so muddle headed.
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The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 49 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"Moreover, due to recurring correlations in human experience, they are probably also universal across all human languages ans culutres." - probably? Wouldn't it be nice if we had linguists who actually knew?
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 46 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"The primary metaphor arises, therefore, because what fires together, in neuronal terms, wires together." - that's a big jump from metaphor to neuron.
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 26 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"Any species more complex than, say, the earthworm has a conceptual system" - what would Kant say?
Aug 05, 2018 12:51AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 25 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"RED and REDNESS may be referring to exactly the same type of colouration: the same concept. Yet they nuance how the concept gets activated in our minds in slightly different ways." - I think the difference is more than slight.
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The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 293 of 304 of The Left Hand of Darkness
"The Ekumen?" said Argaven startled
"No. Mankind".
- she really gets full value from that word.
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The Left Hand of Darkness

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 233 of 304 of The Left Hand of Darkness
""I and thou", he said. "Yes, it does, after all go even wider than sex...."
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The Left Hand of Darkness

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 177 of 304 of The Left Hand of Darkness
"Being a suppression, not merely a repression, it produced not frustration, but something more ominous, perhaps in the long run: passivity."
Aug 04, 2018 11:18AM Add a comment
The Left Hand of Darkness

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 171 of 304 of The Left Hand of Darkness
"I saw a girl' - no discussion here of the Gethenian skeleton. Does hard tissue also change during kemmer? And why changes between male/female forms other than the sexual organs?
Aug 04, 2018 04:32AM Add a comment
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 101 of 304 of The Left Hand of Darkness
"If civilization has an opposite, it is war."
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 98 of 304 of The Left Hand of Darkness
"Along in those four millenia the electric engine was developed..." - Why would they abandon the technology of the human ancestors who placed them on Gethen?
Aug 02, 2018 07:27AM Add a comment
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 24 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"time...maybe more foundational than space: we rely on time to facilitate our perception of spatial experience."
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 19 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"I shall argue...that words are not the same as concepts - the latter being the bedrock of thought - although words can and do provide clues as to the nature of concepts."
Aug 02, 2018 07:22AM Add a comment
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 7 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"Language works extremely well because it is part of a larger meaning-making complex"
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 37 of 304 of The Left Hand of Darkness
I'm not the first alien to come to Gethen. I was preceded by a team of Investigators, who didn't announce their presence, but passed as well as they could for Gethenians. - nice inversion
Aug 01, 2018 04:42AM Add a comment
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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 193 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
It is ironic that after the fall of state socialism, the anti-state post-communist government bureaucracy continues to grow, often in the shape of 'privatisation' bureaucracies - cf. Bokros
Jul 31, 2018 12:09PM Add a comment
Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 192 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
"[The new bourgeoisie] are about as far as they could be from the ideal Schumpeterian entrepreneur. their main creative activity is to find loopholes, to find patrons or to mobilize clients" - harsh, but fair?
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Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 190 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
in terms of class relations, these are societies with small, weak domestic propertied bourgeoisies but large intelligentsias, which have resisted historical pressures to professionalize - Maybe their big mistake.
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Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 187 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
The historical role of cultural capital is often revolutionary, and it seems unable to institutionalize itself as the dominant logic of a stable system - So much for Plato's philosopher kings.
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Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 186 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
the fact is privatisation produced disinvestment...Some of this could probably be called 'creative destruction' ... Some of this ... however, was simply a siphoning off of resources from large firms, often into private pockets...
Jul 31, 2018 11:23AM Add a comment
Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 185 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
If the Chinese technocracy did manage to oust the bureaucracy, China might very well adopt the policy of systematic privatisation.
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Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 184 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
It is difficult not to attribute China's extraordinary economic achievement to its strategy of building capitalism from below.
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Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 181 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
But if we are to understand why [socialist managers] opted for capitalism from above, it is impossible from above, it is impossible to separate analytically or empirically their self-interest from their commitment to professional ethics.
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Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 178 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
Civil society was the theory that gradually de-socialized intellectuals from a socialist, communitarian value system and reeducated them in capitalist individualistic virtues.
Jul 31, 2018 11:11AM Add a comment
Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 176 of 287 of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
"For all these reasons, we believe that the struggle between the technocratic-managerial elite of the corporate sector and the new entrepreneurs who started from scratch is far from over." - it seems to be now, but the victors were not the technocrats, but the Fideszniks.
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Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

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