Perhaps writers always have some figures staring censoriously over their shoulders? At least I do, and in this work those figures include the Relativist who doesn't think there is much that can be said, the Hegelian who frowns on my attempts to use his concepts without accepting his totalities, the Architectural Theorist who condemns as facile popularization any attempt at these topics without the guild vocabulary, the Total Revolutionary who sees what I am trying to do as craven compromise, the Pure Philosopher who insists that only work in epistemology or ontology deserves the name, the Marxist Rebel who spurns my airy complexities for the solid truth of economic and cultural oppression, and a pair of twins: the Analytic Philosopher condemning fuzziness, and with the Continental Philosopher saying that I am in thrall to the positivist notion of fixed formal systems. There is also the Hypertext Theorist disdaining outlines.
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001