Structuralism

The Chicago School takes the position that while suppressing competition is bad, it's not axiomatic that more competitors are inherently good.

Structuralists might think so because they don't want concentrated nodes of power.

The Chicago School does not.

Take Advanced semiconductor fabrication.

Today, the big flashpoint between the errors of these two approaches is mostly around mergers, at least from what I can tell.

That tends to be where the energy is.

Structuralists look at big corporate acquisitions like Paramount buying up Warner Brothers, and they think five big companies are going down to four.

Ipso facto, there are less competitors.

So I just last night, read your review of the language machine book, which on some excellent, excellent review.

So we could probably touch on that to this kind of, you know, Structuralism, Contra, Cognitivism, and so on.

But now, look, it's great.

As we were just discussing before we started recording, the whole notion of the extended cognition thing, that's something I've always found quite interesting.

Freud saw us as shaped by unconscious drives.

Structuralists saw us as shaped by the systems of language and meaning we are born into.

Post-structuralists complicated all of these but kept the essential gesture.

The human subject is produced, formed, constructed by forces it does not choose and often cannot see.