<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post1911827610288870005..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4693115257413698098</id><published>2009-11-08T16:57:36.622-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-08T16:57:36.622-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think that Levi-Strauss&amp;#39;s cultural binaries-...</title><summary type='text'>I think that Levi-Strauss&amp;#39;s cultural binaries--the raw &amp;amp; cooked, etc--created spaces to work between which were very useful at the time. And, by the way, not entirely useless now.He instigated the structuralist paradigm and shook things up in meaningful ways. Not bad to my way of thinking.  Not so fucking bad at all.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/4693115257413698098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/4693115257413698098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257717456622#c4693115257413698098' title=''/><author><name>Tom Beckett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08956557701199101102</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1611280848"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5441103343500051065</id><published>2009-11-06T20:32:40.321-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T20:32:40.321-05:00</updated><title type='text'>all of your abstractions are killing people!&#xa;&#xa;when...</title><summary type='text'>all of your abstractions are killing people!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when a cockroach appears&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;crush the fucking bastard!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ain&amp;#39;t that the American &lt;br /&gt;Religious/Christian Way?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/5441103343500051065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/5441103343500051065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257557560321#c5441103343500051065' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5978381209845332252</id><published>2009-11-06T20:12:20.876-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T20:12:20.876-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Words can offer poison or a cure depending on who ...</title><summary type='text'>Words can offer poison or a cure depending on who writes them.  I don&amp;#39;t know why Levi-strauss thought all cultures were equal and that we couldn&amp;#39;t judge them.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Writing has to offer a judgement.  I can understand not wanting to judge Stone Age tribes, but what about the Nazis?  It never made sense to me that we couldn&amp;#39;t judge other cultures, only describe them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/5978381209845332252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/5978381209845332252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257556340876#c5978381209845332252' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7462593025589682903</id><published>2009-11-06T11:54:27.685-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T11:54:27.685-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Words on paper don&amp;#39;t mean anything without the...</title><summary type='text'>Words on paper don&amp;#39;t mean anything without the action of the people to abide by it.  Lincoln&amp;#39;s &lt;i&gt;Emancipation Proclamation&lt;/i&gt; worked great.  But, how many times have American Indians (and others) been cheated by the words on paper.  In many cases, it didn&amp;#39;t matter what was written in the &amp;quot;treaty.&amp;quot;  Who owns the Black Hills?  Everyone knows who owns it, and everyone knows </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/7462593025589682903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/7462593025589682903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257526467685#c7462593025589682903' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7839988150670713062</id><published>2009-11-05T17:19:21.730-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T17:19:21.730-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Speterme,&#xa;&#xa;True enough, some laws aren&amp;#39;t ...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Speterme,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True enough, some laws aren&amp;#39;t worth the paper they are written on, and even worse, sometimes written laws provide the individual with exactly the opposite of protection against arbitrary governmental action.  As in, to name but an example, Fred Korematsu, or the thousands of others who as he was was, were imprisoned during WWII simply because of who they were, not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/7839988150670713062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/7839988150670713062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257459561730#c7839988150670713062' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 05, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7012485656621765976</id><published>2009-11-05T00:49:35.712-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T00:49:35.712-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Levi-Strauss was right for the wrong reasons, and ...</title><summary type='text'>Levi-Strauss was right for the wrong reasons, and in his zeal to overthrow dogma and have us see people and their societies as unique on their own terms and not a part of all the conceits our Eurocentric narrative formas dictate, he proposed another sort of dogma that would cede nothing that fell out of his writerly line. For a man who sought clarity , it wound up adding an additional layer of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/7012485656621765976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/7012485656621765976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257400175712#c7012485656621765976' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='19' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/ScOlFsNlqiI/AAAAAAAACKY/nr0_xDYD8uU/S220/DSCF2074.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 05, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4818083763392663797</id><published>2009-11-05T00:38:42.015-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T00:38:42.015-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ahh, but some laws aren&amp;#39;t worth the paper that...</title><summary type='text'>ahh, but some laws aren&amp;#39;t worth the paper that they&amp;#39;re written on...some constitutions, too, and even a few poems...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pac, lov and undrstanding (nvr giv up!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;stv ptrmir&lt;br /&gt;no mans land&lt;br /&gt;minnapolis, mn&lt;br /&gt;usa</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/4818083763392663797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/4818083763392663797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257399522015#c4818083763392663797' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 05, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3033098644410332914</id><published>2009-11-04T11:41:23.352-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T11:41:23.352-05:00</updated><title type='text'>O how provocative on writing, Levi Straus!&#xa;&#xa;He was...</title><summary type='text'>O how provocative on writing, Levi Straus!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was even more provocative, just on the next page following the statements quoted by Ron.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. . . &amp;quot;[t]he primary function of written communication,&amp;quot; asserts Levi Strauss, &amp;quot;is to facilitate slavery.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;#39;s another provcative statementone, this time from me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parts of &lt;i&gt;Tristes </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/3033098644410332914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/3033098644410332914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257352883352#c3033098644410332914' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9059828784722992379</id><published>2009-11-04T09:33:54.319-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T09:33:54.319-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In the early-to-mid 60&amp;#39;s&#xa;/when I inhaled &amp;quot...</title><summary type='text'>In the early-to-mid 60&amp;#39;s&lt;br /&gt;/when I inhaled &amp;quot;everything&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I came upon The Trickster&lt;br /&gt;via Levi-Strauss and a philosophy teacher (Dr Hanks) of mine who knew him when he worked here in D.C.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;seems to me The Trickster was/is &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;simultaneously two &amp;quot;animals&amp;quot;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;raven and coyote &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;death&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;life&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/9059828784722992379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/9059828784722992379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257345234319#c9059828784722992379' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8621590963409912826</id><published>2009-11-04T08:29:21.551-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T08:29:21.551-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lévi-Strauss was, in a lot of ways, the starting-p...</title><summary type='text'>Lévi-Strauss was, in a lot of ways, the starting-point for the poststructuralist discussion as was Genet, another very influential writer we don&amp;#39;t talk often enough about. I think they&amp;#39;ve both been unjustly overshadowed by Derrida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for the &amp;quot;New York Times&amp;quot; notice.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/8621590963409912826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/8621590963409912826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257341361551#c8621590963409912826' title=''/><author><name>Conrad DiDiodato</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_WYu0QSkXE9I/RrfUh0dvuKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/q66ZnGQXpSY/s400/IMG_0272.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-610431874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6858736870137551352</id><published>2009-11-04T02:25:52.488-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T02:25:52.488-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Another Writing Lesson&#xa;--after Claude Lévi-Strauss...</title><summary type='text'>Another Writing Lesson&lt;br /&gt;--after Claude Lévi-Strauss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whoever said that &lt;br /&gt;Writing could change&lt;br /&gt;The intellectual&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conditions of human existence &lt;br /&gt;Should have thought twice &lt;br /&gt;Before writing it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/6858736870137551352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1911827610288870005/comments/default/6858736870137551352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html?showComment=1257319552488#c6858736870137551352' title=''/><author><name>vazambam</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_h6tjQbK9deA/ShMbPrG5lUI/AAAAAAAAAHg/LtEn7kMb17Q/S220/Vasilis+Zambaras1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-by-irving-penn-1970-claude-levi.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1911827610288870005' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1911827610288870005' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2018967500"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 04, 2009"/></entry></feed>