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(Boing Boing) Sad Claude Lévi-Strauss is dead. We'll miss his genes   (boingboing.net) divider line 38
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Ras-Algethi [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 01:13:42 PM
Well done! +1
 
Bathia_Mapes [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 01:26:00 PM
Brilliant headline!
 
DjangoStonereaver [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 01:36:53 PM
He didn't die.

He simply deconstructed the paradigm of life.
 
Sybarite [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 01:40:12 PM
That makes me blue.
 
Recoil Therapy [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 02:02:52 PM
100? Damn good run, it sounded like he packed a lot of living into those years.

/magnificent headline too
 
Hagbardr
2009-11-03 02:05:28 PM
Recoil Therapy: 100? Damn good run, it sounded like he packed a lot of living into those years.

/magnificent headline too

I was expecting him to make it to 501.
 
Paris1127 [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 02:33:26 PM
I wonder what denim in... He seamed healthy enough.
 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 02:52:50 PM
I didn't even know he was sick.
 
sweddjen
2009-11-03 03:25:43 PM
I don't get it. He didn't have anything to do with genes. Yes, I get the jeans reference. But "jeans" is equally as nonsensical as "genes". He did, however, write a lot related to memes.

/He will be mythed.
 
ninjakirby
2009-11-03 03:59:41 PM
Hey, he's got my birthday. Here's to hoping I live that long!

sweddjen: /He will be mythed.

Nice.
 
IExpectAKill
2009-11-03 04:08:05 PM
www.waltontaylor.com
 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 04:08:50 PM
Sad he's gone but damn did he have a life.
 
FVendetta
2009-11-03 04:13:47 PM
A good run. I remember studying him lots.
 
oi_piss_me_off [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 04:18:57 PM
i didn't know he was still alive.
 
The Dynamite Monkey
2009-11-03 04:26:19 PM
Nice subby, but I still prefer the headline I submitted: "Farkers, let us all lower our jeans to half-mast"
 
TheBigPythagoras
2009-11-03 05:06:12 PM
Farewell Pioneer, O' Pioneer.
 
sweddjen
2009-11-03 05:26:09 PM
I still think going for a jeans-joke is lowbrow and too obvious. Never underestimate fark to grab the low-hanging fruit.
 
Phil Moskowitz
2009-11-03 05:49:54 PM
Patent law will be unraveled in the next few decades.
 
theorellior [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 05:53:58 PM
Did he go out raw or cooked?
 
NittLion78
2009-11-03 05:55:24 PM
img268.imageshack.us
 
Fano
2009-11-03 06:00:17 PM
He was still alive? I had to read his crap back in Anthro 101, I thought he had been dead for 20 years then.
 
AspectRatio
2009-11-03 06:06:58 PM
farm4.static.flickr.com
 
raerae1980
2009-11-03 06:11:07 PM
Pfff. I have had too many classes that concentrated on this man. He gave me a headache. I have to be able to regurgitate his "structuralist" approach. UGH! End my misery!
 
Dr.Zom
2009-11-03 06:31:57 PM
He was a panthropologist, right?
 
Good Behavior Day
2009-11-03 06:34:10 PM
I'm surprised Arial Sharon and Fidel Castro are still alive.

Others you may not know are still alive:
Harper Lee
JD Salinger
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Abigail Van Buren
Betty Ford
Gloria Vanderbilt
Dr Ruth Westheimer
C Everett Koop
Ed Koch
B B King

/time to update the deadpool
 
Tiberius Gracchus
2009-11-03 06:39:38 PM
His mind will be missed, but he had a long life, and was pretty with it to the end. I'll always be jealous of his writing and ability to put so much meaning into just one or two sentences. I read some of his work before doing my own writing just to try to get my mind in shape...like stretching before a run.

Thus the distinctive features which are the product of phonemic analysis have an objective existence from three points of view: psychological, physiological and even physical; they are fewer in number than the phonemes which result from their combination; and, finally, they allow us to understand and reconstruct the system.
~CLS
 
XMark
2009-11-03 06:46:59 PM
Wow, he outlived Abe Vigoda.
 
LindLTaylor
2009-11-03 07:10:49 PM
Perhaps the Tleilaxu can grow a ghola version from an atoxl tank.
 
FloydA [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 07:31:38 PM
He had a langue and successful career, but his parole is donne.
 
ADHD Librarian
2009-11-03 07:49:27 PM
Primitive people the world over mourn his passing.
 
Baldanders
2009-11-03 07:56:40 PM
I read his stuff in the context of structuralist literary theory. He was a man whose work transcended academic discipline.

"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."

That, to me, makes him a philosopher, and I've admired him as long as I've been aware of him.
 
fireandashes36
2009-11-03 08:05:09 PM
raerae1980: Pfff. I have had too many classes that concentrated on this man. He gave me a headache. I have to be able to regurgitate his "structuralist" approach. UGH! End my misery!

Pretty much this. RIP though.
 
nucular bum
2009-11-03 08:06:28 PM
Goodnight, blue jeans man.

/low-hanging fruit indeed
//appreciated his contributions to anthropology
///a candidate for humanist sainthood, in my book
 
lantawa [TotalFark]
2009-11-03 09:08:38 PM
Paging Loren Eisely...paging Loren Eisely....Mr. Eisely, it appears that your snow leopard has been found. He's being cared for by a simple country woman who's eyes reflect an eons-old lineage that somehow, obliquely, across the light of the campfire, has something to do with someone called Mr. Levi-Strauss. Please collect your animal and report to Fark for examination. Bring the woman with you. that is all...
 
DrZiffle
2009-11-03 10:01:06 PM
Studied that abstruse bullshiat for years.

/Postmodernity dances on the grave of the episteme!
 
xaveth
2009-11-03 10:13:23 PM
I heard he dyed on 501... the jeans on the floor, not the time.
His washed up mom jeans was torn to shreds.
 
Dear Jerk
2009-11-04 12:03:49 AM
Holy snap. I googled totemism just now because I remembered that I didn't understand it in college. It turns out that it's exactly how I think of religion today. People who don't respect a liberal arts approach to education are poorer for it.
I also thought he died decades ago.
 
Zafayal [TotalFark]
2009-11-04 12:39:21 AM
*sigh*

*shakes head*

*no words*
 
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