I’m completely lost with the paragraph about the imagistic and abstract thought. At one moment you seem to be equating the two, at the next opposing them, then back again. Could you please lay out your definitions of the two a bit more?
> reduces […] to that which we can “see” […] and articulate through a shared vernacular of images rather than abstract concepts, that is, notions only tractable in written and spoken language.
Here abstract concepts are what is only tractable in language. Right? I initially read it as the imagistic is only tractable in language.
Then:
> While it’s always been politically expedient to embrace abstract thought, this is especially important as Silicon Valley continues to align itself with Trump.
I read that as Silicon Valley and/or Trump embrace abstract thought, which doesn’t make sense and didn’t track with the rest. But I think you meant, it’s expedient for _us_, in _opposition_ to SV & Trump. Right?
I’m completely lost with the paragraph about the imagistic and abstract thought. At one moment you seem to be equating the two, at the next opposing them, then back again. Could you please lay out your definitions of the two a bit more?
Oh I think I’m picking apart my misreadings…
> reduces […] to that which we can “see” […] and articulate through a shared vernacular of images rather than abstract concepts, that is, notions only tractable in written and spoken language.
Here abstract concepts are what is only tractable in language. Right? I initially read it as the imagistic is only tractable in language.
Then:
> While it’s always been politically expedient to embrace abstract thought, this is especially important as Silicon Valley continues to align itself with Trump.
I read that as Silicon Valley and/or Trump embrace abstract thought, which doesn’t make sense and didn’t track with the rest. But I think you meant, it’s expedient for _us_, in _opposition_ to SV & Trump. Right?
Yes -- this second comment has it right. I'm positioning the imagistic against the abstract and SV/Trump on the side of the imagistic.