Doug Stark

@ranjodhd Wimsatt and Beardsley core

@leifweatherby is gabe doing an account takeover?

Why have two sections?

AI-driven video games we watch instead of play... don't we already have a name for non-interactive moving images? Instead of figuring it as a break from video game tradition, this essay argues that the self-playing game is best understood in continuity with cinema -- as Simema.

@br_norton @medieninitiativ @leifweatherby It was, perhaps, only unnatural for radio technicians to extend this thinking about speech slippages on the airwaves to technical slippages of the airwaves. This phenomenon predates what is often considered the first use of glitch by John Glenn in 1962. visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/…

@br_norton @medieninitiativ @leifweatherby most histories of glitch are typically histories of visual noise, although one could argue that glitch, in the technical sense, was originally sonic. Taken from the Yiddish and German for slip, US folks ostensibly referred to errors in radio speech as glitches in the 40s.

anyone have recs on the history of 'noise' as a specifically visual concept? especially wrt AI images? @medieninitiativ ? @leifweatherby ?

@ranjodhd I think this would be a task better conducted by Jameson's advisees, who had far more extensive (and official) access to these materials.

@immer_starker Do public service and post them all now, Doug. It's your academic, nah civic, duty.

I wish someone would make a collection of all the Jameson syllabi over the years. That'd be a great resource for many tbvh.

@ranjodhd I took that course podcast style: All the lectures were recorded, and I'd listen to them on my long walking/bus commutes between Duke and UNC (I could never afford a car). This means that, beyond syllabi, there should be an archive of all the lectures.

@ranjodhd If I remember correctly, "Adorno and Brecht" was the subject of Fall 2018. I don't think we learned anything about Adorno.

@ranjodhd I remember in Philosophies of History (Spring 2018), we seemed to get a new piece of paper with an updated syllabus every few weeks. In this hypothetical collection, the different versions would, I believe, have to be historicized.

Il est rare qu'un homme seul ait envie de rire -- Sartre, La Nausée, qtd. in Fred Jameson, "The Laughter of Nausea," 1959

are replaced by questions concerning the combinatorial possibilities of a certain formal game. Then we will be able to say that certain statements are not decidable within given formal systems.  --- Paul Cohen, Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis, 1966/2008, p. 3 7/7

However we shall demand that they be completely explicit rules requiring no infinite processes to check and that in principle they can be coded into a computing machine. In this way, questions concerning infinite sets 6/

According to the Formalist point of view, mathematics should be regarded as a fully formal game played with marks on paper, and the only requirement this game need fulfill is that it does not lead to an inconsistency. To completely describe the game required setting down 1/

Good heavens, if someone teaches you where to begin, isn’t that enough? ---- Stuart Hall, "For A Marxism Without Guarantees," 1983/2022

The only Marx worth celebrating then is the Marx who is interested in thinking and in struggling on an open terrain, the Marx who offers a marxism without guarantees, a marxism without answers.

The notion that Marx is a kind of super brain that descended out of Trier in Germany at a certain moment, that he knew everything, that he wrote everything that he could see to the end of history and he just unfortunately happened to die in 1883 is really going back to the Marx