Everyone knowing that everyone knows stuff is a step too far in unnecessariness! : no, it's basic games theory. Your judgment how to vote to counter the flow depends on a knowledge of how others will vote.
"Whose canon": it's only ever going to be the canon of who gets to vote in a given poll -- but the identification of this can only be determined after the fact, if people are voting "truthfully" as opposed to consciously tribally (or with a view to determining the state of the consensus; rather than a snapshot of quality). It *is* shallow history (Mr I-hate-history!) but the journalist's role is the first draft of same; not the final draft. Juornalism provides the tipsheet for dissent and counterargument.
Rival lists would be interesting: we need to see some... but what are the Other Tribes? The moment a Lexist School emerges as a list-making organisation (boycotted by you obv: I mean tastewise), all the things you're worrying about will instantly re-emerge within Lexism. They're an artefact of how we fence with the opinions of others -- the aggregate of all the individual dialectics of affirmation and refusal
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Date: 2009-08-21 12:10 pm (UTC)"Whose canon": it's only ever going to be the canon of who gets to vote in a given poll -- but the identification of this can only be determined after the fact, if people are voting "truthfully" as opposed to consciously tribally (or with a view to determining the state of the consensus; rather than a snapshot of quality). It *is* shallow history (Mr I-hate-history!) but the journalist's role is the first draft of same; not the final draft. Juornalism provides the tipsheet for dissent and counterargument.
Rival lists would be interesting: we need to see some... but what are the Other Tribes? The moment a Lexist School emerges as a list-making organisation (boycotted by you obv: I mean tastewise), all the things you're worrying about will instantly re-emerge within Lexism. They're an artefact of how we fence with the opinions of others -- the aggregate of all the individual dialectics of affirmation and refusal