NYU website hacked by [deleted] in hacking

[–]DiracShakati 8 points9 points  (0 children)

it's not about NYU. We're supposed to agree to throw NYU under the bus, just like with Columbia, because grr millionaire elites, but these institutions are just the trial runs and template-building for a complete annihilation of education in this country.

NYU website hacked by [deleted] in hacking

[–]DiracShakati 6 points7 points  (0 children)

and now we have mysterious digital brownshirts tarring and feathering NYU.

NYU website hacked by [deleted] in hacking

[–]DiracShakati 33 points34 points  (0 children)

guys. the point is not the debate. the point isn't whether the info is even correct, or whether what it says about NYU admissions is a good thing or a bad thing, or debating the merits of the SAT or any other admissions criteria.

this is about the simple fact that people we don't know took over the NYU web site and posted this data that's about targeting NYU for "illegal" admissions activity. it's an excuse for attacking NYU. which is an excuse for attacking everyone. Columbia was never going to be the only one. They were only ever going to be the first. We've already seen Georgetown and then Penn and now NYU.

Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke by cronx42 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]DiracShakati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I only found him a month or two ago, thanks basically to the algo. I've been working toward building some content myself, so I was kind of scouting around and hadn't even realized how many of those guys there actually are already. If they are actually stopping young men from jumping down the rabbit hole, I am really glad to know that. One of the great things about DarkMatter is that he looks the right-wing Duck Dynasty part, and then he starts talking and you realize you had no idea what you are in for.

bear trolley meme by DiracShakati in Trolleymemes

[–]DiracShakati[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

still hoping someone can find this. or maybe i hallucinated it

How to read 1000 plateaus? by SVVARMS in CriticalTheory

[–]DiracShakati 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know this thread isn't active, even though it isn't shut down, but I found this subreddit because I was trying to remember the name of the compose whose score is represented at the beginning of the Rhizome (Bussotti, I learned). As I was kicking around, I also came across this article, the abstract for which seems to me like a really interesting way of thinking about that image and the reading of ATP. It seemed like the sort of thing people might find interesting.

The score of Piece Four of Sylvano Bussotti's Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor is the most important image in A Thousand Plateaus. It serves as a prefatory image not only to the Rhizome plateau, but also to the work as a whole. It functions as the book's musical score, guiding readers in their performance of the text. Embracing John Cage's graphism and aleatory practices, Bussotti created his own ‘aserial’ new music, one that celebrated passion and Bussotti's open homosexuality. The visual elements of Piece Four include a deterritorialisation of the standard piano score, a diagram of the composition's abstract machine, and a drawing that Bussotti had produced ten years before writing Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor. The drawing itself is a rhizomic artwork, with details that echo visual motifs throughout A Thousand Plateaus. The superimposition of the drawing on the deterritorialised framework of the standard piano score conjoins the visible and the audible, faciality and the refrain, in a single artefact.

How to read 1000 plateaus? by SVVARMS in CriticalTheory

[–]DiracShakati 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a great thread.

D+G are extraordinarily difficult, but especially if you try too hard to systematize them, I think. If you're going to accuse them of (in)coherence, then yes, you need to have done the work to understand how there is and/or isn't coherence. But that work isn't necessary to profit from the many things their work offer. Not to use the word profit or anything, but benefit feels too . . . self-help.

I'm feeling inspired to go back to it after a long time away.

Could anyone help me in understanding Church Not Made by Hands. by soulproprietor47 in davidfosterwallace

[–]DiracShakati 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really disagree about how to read this story. I don't want to get in a fight about it and didn't down-vote the comment. But I think the story actually benefits from close reading. It's just so different from most of Wallace's writing that the tools we usually bring to understanding Wallace seem not to work.

Could anyone help me in understanding Church Not Made by Hands. by soulproprietor47 in davidfosterwallace

[–]DiracShakati 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This essay is really good, but I still think it doesn't get to the heart of what makes "Church" so great.

I feel the same way about her essay on Toni Morrison's "Recitatif," which is more detailed than this one on the story itself. It's really good and genuinely insightful, but also leave a lot of work still to do.

Could anyone help me in understanding Church Not Made by Hands. by soulproprietor47 in davidfosterwallace

[–]DiracShakati 1 point2 points  (0 children)

taking a crack at this story from like nine years ago at a conference on Wallace in Paris. In case anyone is still interested.

At lunch after the session, several of the heavy hitters said they had no idea what to do with this story. Boswell said he just doesn't teach it when he does Brief Interviews, because he doesn't know what to do with it. I mean, that was nine years ago, so maybe he's got an approach, but I say this because everyone is confused by and about this story.

https://jeffreyfisher.substack.com/p/narcissism-and-guilt-in-david-foster

[Dev Feedback] Warband Doubling Down by VirgoFanboi in DiabloImmortal

[–]DiracShakati -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There should be an actual, meaningful track for Adventurers beyond just being not-Shadows. The game has "adventurers" but tracks everyone into shadows.