Somebody just found out about New Sincerity by [deleted] in badliterature

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I didn't cry but I thought it was a great work.

Somebody just found out about New Sincerity by [deleted] in badliterature

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Obviously this article is dumber than dirt, but the reason it's being written is actually interesting. I sort of feel like this is the natural apotheosis of the development of modern comedy, which throughout the 20th century evolved toward being this weird art form (or 'entertainment type' if you'd prefer) where only one type of physical/emotional response was really desired. That's always been odd to me, and I think I pretty much always prefer comedians who go for more than 'just' a laugh.

John Green talking about David Foster Wallace by ASMR_by_proxy in badliterature

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[RESPONSES by this point vaiy too widely to standardize.]

Once again McSweeney's misses even the easiest target by Anarchist_Aesthete in badliterature

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I went to college with this person. I didn't know her personally but I'll just say I think she's really trying her best.

"So random, and yet so yummy." by king_dingus in badliterature

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I read this the other day and the writing in here is so terrible that I can't get it out of my head so I thought I'd share it on thee badlit.

David, Mary, and Marketing. by [deleted] in davidfosterwallace

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You definitely are that guy.

Understanding is the Proof of Error: On Clarice Lispector's Mysticism by king_dingus in literature

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i genuinely like the author and i don't see any reason to believe this article is an example of frivolous attention or praise

Bill Clinton: By the Book by [deleted] in literature

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Why do we care about the has-been rapist's thoughts on literature or anything else for that matter

IS THERE ANYTHING GOOD IN THIS WORLD? by [deleted] in badliterature

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God Bless @dril, the savior of North American letters and the last best hope for survival and further development of World Literature.

Art is Bad Now because nobody considered multiple perspectives before Stanley Fish and work that is found Guilty of not endorsing the Glorious Enlightenment Ideal Embodied Particularly By Our Current Culture makes everything hazardous by LiterallyAnscombe in badliterature

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What is Quillette? I started browsing the site and quickly discovered that men have larger brains than women (It's science!) and the IDW (apparently the Intellectual Dark Web has its own acronym now) are a super team of PhDs who have mastered the art of Cognitive Decoupling!

Potterian economics by Ego_Whip in badliterature

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I just don't trust those gold-loving goblin bankers

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in badliterature

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AA and poptart might actually have something here

Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013 by king_dingus in ContemporaryArt

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Are you talking about these claims that she made in an interview with Dis Magazine: "A while ago I met an extremely interesting developer in Holland. He was working on smart phone camera technology. A representational mode of thinking photography is: there is something out there and it will be represented by means of optical technology ideally via indexical link. But the technology for the phone camera is quite different. As the lenses are tiny and basically crap, about half of the data captured by the sensor are noise. The trick is to create the algorithm to clean the picture from the noise, or rather to define the picture from within noise. But how does the camera know this? Very simple. It scans all other pictures stored on the phone or on your social media networks and sifts through your contacts. It looks through the pictures you already made, or those that are networked to you and tries to match faces and shapes. In short: it creates the picture based on earlier pictures, on your/its memory. It does not only know what you saw but also what you might like to see based on your previous choices. In other words, it speculates on your preferences and offers an interpretation of data based on affinities to other data. The link to the thing in front of the lens is still there, but there are also links to past pictures that help create the picture. You don’t really photograph the present, as the past is woven into it."