@3xcalibaneur @PYeerk What do you mean by the depoliticization of everyday life?
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There were two processes which happened at the end of the 20th century that killed the “everyday intellectual”: the depoliticization of everyday life, which removed the motive for serious thought, and the hyperprofessionalization of knowledge, which removed the possibility of it.
Pizza@number_pizza111
Mass culture was definitely more intellectual until the invention of the radio or WWII or thereabouts. Just read a chapter of Gulliver's Travels dedicated to mocking Leibniz’s work in symbolic logic, and I find that alien enough that I can’t think of a workable modern analogy.
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The sublimity of language lies in the possibility of misinterpretation
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“Analog computing… not something you see people talking about much anymore!”
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You might not like it, but THIS is what a renewed British economy looks like.
raverobber@djraverobber
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Just historical illiteracy; no understanding that astrology is and has always been a military technology. Millennial Reddit 2010s contrarianism doesnt change the fact that the Ptolemaic model is far closer to the human imagination in shape than "we are just on a rock" slop
VOIDFILL🕳️@SOPROSOCIAL
The concept of there being “real astrology”
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The long 60s ending in 1973 is a conservative estimate. Nearly all of contemporary culture and sociality is in some way downstream of the 1960s counterculture winning so decisively that it became the ambient psychic infrastructure of society.
Robert Skvarla@RobertSkvarla
Wrong. The hippies lost. If Woodstock was supposed to signal a change in consciousness, it was a complete failure: Nixon escalated in Vietnam; the left splintered into ever more irrelevant factions; and violence, not love, prevailed.
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@nicodemvs Could you give an example of contemporary poetry that you see as truly innovative or exciting?
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alt lit is doing language poetry from 40 years ago and thinking you stumbled onto some new way of thinking about poetry. Read a book!
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Salvation coming from the Outside, and Salvation from the Outside itself. The tiling of our world in hypothetical mattertime will result in an extropic nova, birthing a new global catallaxy that will spiral into pure awareness and the exteriorization of the soul itself.
Xenocosmography@xenocosmography
@L_emiLLLL Salvation from the Outside.
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i tried making an infographic based on this but it spiraled horribly out of control
Baudrillard Forever@GroovySciFi
That's because Kant serves Christ and Hegel serves The Evil One.
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Man is the monitor AND the situation.
Tim Siedell@badbanana
Man was not meant to monitor this many situations.
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The ancien regime intellectual circuits can’t respond to AI, and they’ve hardly begun to respond to the internet in general, because the construction of new models of knowledge production structurally threatens institutions dependent upon a specific form of informational accessibility and distribution. There’s every reason to oppose the printing press if you work in the scriptorium. Why would you empower the Third Estate before the Bastille was burning?
yung macro 宏观年少传奇@apralky
It is kind of interesting: the East Coast magazine types are seemingly intelligent people, seemingly selected through very tight funnels -- great universities, great SAT scores, they can often think critically, follow long and established traditions of thought, etc. but here we are moving at breakneck pace through this unprecedented technological revolution which by any reasonable consensus has decent odds of literally ending biological life as we know it in all sorts of horrible ways, and all they can think about is that... prose is getting kinda worse on the way? That some writing sounds a little sloppier now? That they are not fans of the style? This is somehow their elephant in the room? What? Is this just what happens when you compound bad epistemic habits for decades? Functional paralysis in otherwise sane minds?
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watercolor paintings from the book views of polar regions, by charles hamilton smith (undated but probably produced between 1830-50)
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There's basically two distinct types of Zoomers: a Gen Z-A and a Gen Z-B. Gen Z-A grew up with Lego Mindstorms, personal computing, desktops, 2000s entertainment, and an early, uncensored version of the internet, all of which created a cultural sensibility rooted in tech literacy and autonomy. Gen Z-B, by contrast, came of age with late 2010s post-censorship internet and iPads, spoonfed a diet of algorithmically curated content and cut off from digital agency. Much of the discourse on this platform around "Zoomers" conflates these two.
→prudence／／🌲❤️🔥・@BIMBOSATTVA_
It's funny how there's Gen Z and Zoomers and it's like culturally the A vs B divide What's the major difference between Gen Z and Zoomers? Zoomers have irony toxicity and are misanthropic, Gen Z is not
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Pictured: Yves Klein rediscovers the Heraclitian logos, circa 1961.
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