Some would like to reclaim AnArchy to be more like dada.
From RageBoy? (http://www.rageboy.com/2002_02_24_blogger-archive.html#10236305
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It's from the introduction to PaulFeyerabend?'s incendiary -- and now infamous -- book on the philosophy of science,
Against Method: Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge.
- When choosing the term 'anarchism' for my enterprise I simply followed general usage. However anarchism, as it has been practised in the past and as it is being practised today by an ever increasing number of people has features I am not prepared to support. It cares little for human lives and human happiness (except for the lives and the happiness of those who belong to some special group); and it contains precisely the kind of Puritanical dedication and seriousness which I detest... It is for these reasons that I now prefer to use the term Dadaism. A Dadaist would not hurt a fly -- let alone a human being. A Dadaist is utterly unimpressed by any serious enterprise and he smells a rat whenever people stop smiling and assume that attitude and those facial expressions which indicate that something important is about to be said. A Dadaist is convinced that a worthwhile life will arise only when we start taking things lightly and when we remove from our speech the profound but already putrid meanings it has accumulated over the centuries ('search for truth'; 'defence of justice'; 'passionate concern'; etc., etc.) A Dadaist is prepared to initiate joyful experiments even in those domains where change and experimentation seem to be out of the question (example: the basic functions of language). I hope that having read the pamphlet the reader will remember me as a flippant Dadaist and not as a serious anarchist.
Hrm. From the excerpt i read, sounds like a boring anti-science rant.
"...sounds like a boring anti-science rant."
If there is one thing I would not call Paul Feyerabend, it is boring. For me he is one of the most light-hearted, yet important reads in the philosophy of science. His disrespect was not for science, but for philosophers of science.
--AnonyMous
Will give him more of a try some time. --John
For related fun reading, see Daniel Pinkwater's Young Adult Novel
Wack!
DadaDodo is a cut-up like thing with the name obviously rooted in dada, and for some reason this all reminds me of CrazyWisdom?.