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clonehub · 4 months

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Clone language headcanons:

I believe that the clone troopers are a vast, connected, and diverse enough group of people to have developed their own conlang and/or pidgin so that they can communicate clandestinely/privately with one another.

This communication includes subtle and complex body language that non-clones don't notice and don't understand. The clones use both the verbal and body language to pass jokes, commentary, and critiques. The body language is especially crucial because clones are not often given a space for their opinions to be heard. This way, a clone can express their thoughts without having to wait for permission from a higher up (especially a ranked non-clones) to say what they want to say.

One of the most important aspects of the clones language is the pronouns. Clones don't gender their society the way we do. As in, they wouldn't try and split society into groups based on assumed reproductive capability and arbitrary feminine/masculine appearance (like we do IRL)

The clones are a hierarchical society, and their hierarchies are based in rank. When they're not based in rank, it's based on things like merit and experience, but for the time being were just gonna talk about the explicit ranks they have. Because ranking and deference are so important to them, their language reflects that. They have three pronouns, and they are self-referential, meaning that the pronouns of others change based your position relative to them.

Clones above you in rank get one set of pronouns. Clones the same rank as you get another. Clones you outrank get a third. This means that at any given moment, there's a clone for whom all three pronouns are being used to describe them. Take for instance Captain Rex. Cody outranks him, so Cody would call Rex pronoun set C. Captain Keeli and Rex are the same rank, so Keeli would refer to rex with set B (if he was alive RIP 💯🪦🕊️) rex outranks all Shinies and everyone in the 501st, so he'd also be referred to with the final set of pronouns.

I haven't decided yet if the pronouns get conjugated for number yet. I also just realized I'm not sure how a first person plural pronoun would work in a mixed group. Maybe they have a fourth pronoun that ignores rank and is specifically for "us/we" statements.

For verbs and tenses, the clones have only three tenses: simple past, simple present, and simple future. Their unnaturally short lifespans and speedy development get factored into their understanding of time.

The clones have to borrow a lot of words as well from other languages. They have multiple ways to say brother, every term needed for rank and weaponry, probably seven different words for March and a bunch to describe laser fire and specific shades of white. This is because these are the things they saw most in their environment on Kamino and I'm their daily lives. They don't/wouldn't have a word for uncle or aunt, though, because they've never had to refer to someone as such. They might have a word for mother and father.

"brother" Is functionally gender neutral in their language, but when speaking Basic, they'll use "sister" for their clone siblings who are girls/women or otherwise just prefer the term. Clones have a LOT of euphemisms for basically everything around them, but also a lot of teasing or derogatory terms for Shinies. The teasing terms Shinies make up for vets never stick. Of course, as we've already seen in canon, the clones also have a lot of words for helmet.

The clones are HIGHLY secretive about their language. Non-military are the most likely to catch bits and pieces, but military non-clones are actively excluded from access to the language. This includes the Jedi.

As loyal as the clones are to the Republic and the Jedi, they're aware of how tenuous their culture is because of their short lifespans, their restricted lives, and their inability to spread naturally the way other cultures do. So they hold on tight to what they have and resist study. They resist outsiders knowing too much because they value what little privacy they have.

Back to the pronouns for a moment. Theyre 100% accepting of any clones who are trans or nonbinary. That's a personal and sacred as finally choosing a name for oneself. So along the same vein, they respect when someone changes their name.

I think the clones have a Spiritual belief system of sorts, but I haven't really developed it yet. The clones have accents that vary by battalion. There's the strong Kamino accent, and then they pick up the accent of the battalion or company they join. The 501st and Coruscant guard have wildly different accents. Everyone gets teased about how they speak, especially when a battalions been separated from the rest of clone society for a time. The language changes constantly, too.

#ch posts #captain rex #fives #star wars #the clone wars #all the bros #commander cody #clonelang #meta #tcw #clone trooper #clones #swtcw #copy n pasted from twitter

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fangymutt · 1 year

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have you made a post or anything talking about being a therian and like, how you came to realize it and stuff? im questioning myself and was hoping maybe, as a longtime follower of yours, your experience (any amount of it really) could help me out. no need to push urself to explain or anything of course!! i appreciate you being open about it in general ❤️

I never made a generalized post about it really since I'm very much a private introspective person (usually bounce things off my wife and my closest friends) and of course sought out input from Therian pals to help unpack my feelings but! with the disclosure that I'm still relatively new to this whole thing, and am by no means an expert I can offer a little insight to some of the stuff but I'll be brief. (Other Therian folks who are following me feel free to reblog and add your own insight for anon I wont mind at all!)

My realization definitely stemmed a lot in part I believe from not only my own journey and struggle with my Trans identity which had its own ups and downs, how even after feeling comfortable in a certain gender expression and identity there was still some itching piece that was not falling into place. Because while I felt very happy with being a "woman of my own making" (pat on my back because that was my rawest line from my own gender journey while i was working my ass off in a warehouse talking to my wife on the sly on my earbuds) I knew something else was there nagging at me beyond being a Non Binary Trans Woman.

With having Autism there is already that feeling of out of place that you get with being separate from society and its standards as a whole and at first a lot of my feelings on non-humanism I chalked up to the dehumanizing that autistic folks face as part of society expecting us to mold to the standards they practice and demand so it went left unexplored for some time because I just figured "yeah I'm autistic of course I feel out of place in 'normal' society" (again the language here not implying its wrong to be me or autistic obviously) But once around friends and people I trusted who didn't other me for my transness or my autism that itch still persisted.

My being a furry helped me explore more animal mannerisms and behaviors just out of the fact that its furry community we get sillay. But the more I acted on certain things (barking, meowing, various other noises) as well as more referential to myself not as a human but as a Dragon, Bear, Dog etc just a change of language as part of the fun I started noticing those same warm feelings as I did when I started new pronouns or names, the social feelings of being referred to with things that otherwise I wouldn't normally experience. My fascination with nature, my love of the outdoors beyond just the joy of fresh air the actual genuine peace that I'd feel in the woods away from society as a large, listening to all the other animals in the trees feeling the sun and wind on my face how it deeply went into me in some spot inside me that I never really knew was there at least never knew how to acknowledge how it felt like each breath filled my body with this new life I hadn't known.

My wife knew she was Therian first, and through her I explored myself and began to realize that I probably was too. With insight from other pals who also were Therian and just a general fact that I am not afraid to just sit down and look myself in the mirror in a sense and unpack shit when I need to I really just had this sudden explosion of "oh wow this is what it was, this is that itchy piece" I am beyond happy with where the journey has already taken me and I do not feel shame to be that which I am. My wife, my friends, plenty of people around me encouraged, nurtured, and embraced who I was.

So now yeah, my wife and I spend a lot of time speaking with body language and make little barks and reh's and howls and noises at each other instead of words because its freeing to be able to talk with your body and eyes and be understood, especially with autism, being able to be non verbal but still communicate brought such peace and joy. Being able to escape life in society and build a bedroom den and hang vines up in our bathroom and build our own burrow with moss and leaves and just curl up and feel cozy and safe is so comforting and warm.

I know its not a thing everyone gets, and I know its a stigma because "you are bound by your flesh" but much like being trans the flesh is only a small part of what makes us, Us and our soul is much brighter and deeper than anything that our exterior can show. So I may be constrained by limited avenues of external physical expression but that shouldn't stop me from letting my soul soar and be as bright and passionate as it can be.

#i dont have an ask tag #whoops this is really long #long post

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zedecksiew · 3 years

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Sentimental thoughts about the OSR

OSR -- Old School Renaissance? Revival? A style of making and playing games, where the focus is on the experience of shared imagined space, not narrative plots or arcs.

A style fostered by a community.

That community was ugly. Many alt-right-leaning white dudes. It sheltered abusers, like Zak S -- a person who, to my shame, I'd been a fan of.

That community was good. Many key figures were queer / trans. More so (to my impression) than any other RPG community (even other indie groups). Non-white folks, like me.

The popular TTRPG eye remembers the OSR for its ugliness, not its inclusivity. Probably because the assholes were loud. And because the non-white / cis / het-ness of folks was rarely advertised as a community selling-point: "Look at how diverse we are!"

The latter aspect made me feel welcomed. My work -- entirely informed by my SEA context, as it's always been -- got attention based on its merit, not its topicality.

The OSR as I joined it was based on blogs, and on G+. When G+ was shut down, the community had a diaspora.

You hear about BOSR (British OSR), or NOSR / NuSR. You used to hear about SWORDDREAM? I think FKR (the Free Kriegsspiel Revival) is an offshoot of the old community? There are a million Discord channels. Questing Beast, on Youtube.

The blogs are still going strong.

I can't keep track of all the places folks have ended up. I do feel bad about that -- that I'm less community-oriented, that I work more in isolation, now. I squat Twitter mostly. Twitter is not a good place for a creative community.

But it is what it is.

An article Ewan Wilson was writing about the OSR got spiked at Polygon. I was one of the folks he emailed questions to.

Ewan's questions prompted this bout of sentimentality, I guess?

Here are bits from email I wrote him, in reply:

The OSR scene began on blogs? That's certainly how I discovered it. I can actually remember the specific post that hooked me:

Patrick Stuart / False Machine, reading James C Scott's "The Art Of Not Being Governed" -- a history of the Zomia region of mainland Southeast Asia, a place of fluid cultures and peoples that have traditionally resisted the settled states surrounding it -- riffing on the historical information in Scott's book, spinning them into RPG campaign ideas.

A facet of the OSR scene is its willingness to use popular rulesets as a shared language.

Dungeons & Dragons (tm) not as a WOTC corporate property, but D&D as a community vernacular. (And D&D is just one example.)

Folks like Emmy Allen and Luka Rejec have talked about this quite eloquently, I think?

I think the OSR prioritises making stuff for games rather than crafting the bestest, most elegantly-designed game possible. If you are stuck arguing about which language works best for poetry, you'll never get to the point where you actually start making and sharing verse.

I associate the OSR style with possibility, too. I'm not sure why.

Mainstream WOTC D&D is trapped in a self-referential loop, recycling its own Forgotten Realms-adjacent tropes. Then you have the vast forest of licensed RPGs: "Alien: The RPG", "Avatar: The RPG"; "[Insert Popular Nerd IP Here]: The RPG".

Many indie-RPG communities prize genre-emulation -- here's a game where you can mimic the narrative shape of a slasher film; an urban-fantasy novel; Legend of Zelda.

Not that there is anything wrong with this. But if emulation is where you start and end you doom RPGs to a secondary role -- forever in the shadow of other arts.

For sure the OSR has its pop-culture and games-media touchstones; the scene loves to riff on metal album covers and Dark Souls a lot.

But I'd argue that -- relative to other RPG subcommunities, in my experience -- OSR creators are willing to push further down the rabbit-holes of their particular obsessions more often.

So, yes: Dark Souls and metal music. But also references weirder, personal, and as-yet-untapped: Zomia, punk zines, walks in backyard forests, Birkenhead folklore, the Permian Period, Moebius, East Malaysian myth --

Composted together to the point they become game things utterly unlike anything else, and the stories / experiences you can have in those game things you can have nowhere else.

The blogs are still going strong.

Today I was reading this series of posts, a theory-based critique at D&D, the OSR, and games design in general:

"the goal of what we call "old-school play" is not to create a story but to traverse a fantastic space guided by desire, such that any story which emerges is incidental and retrospective (much like stories that emerge from 'real life'). edwards prescribes that the goal of play is to create a story, elevates this prescription into a truth about play as such, and then claims that players who do not play with this aim actually fail to meet this aim because they are mentally damaged. perhaps this can be remedied by playing the correct game, or maybe not, but regardless the implication is that by playing the correct game, one can avoid brain damage.

my take is to not let salespeople convince you that you must buy their products to be politically or mentally correct, and on the flip side do not entitle yourself to the enjoyment of other people."

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4. All four are worth reading.

Today I was also reading the very first OSR blogpost I ever read, about Zomia. It is still as good as it was, six years ago:

"The Lisu, aside from insisting that they kill assertive chiefs, have a radically abbreviated oral history. "Lisu forgetting, Jonsson claims, "is as active as Lua and Mien remembrance." he implies that the Lisu chose to have virtually no history and that the effect of this choice was to "leave no space for the active role of supra-household structures, such as villages or village clusters in ritual life, social organizations, or the mobilisation of peoples attention, labour or resources."

18 Radically forgetting tribes. How far can you push that? Ancestor free tribes, then further away, one-year tribes, then in the reaches of the deeps, the one-day, impossible even to understand as they remember only for one day.

Patrick's blog turned 10 this week.

The blogs are still going strong.

#reallife #fantasies #rpgs #blogs #patrick stuart #osr

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milk-and-violets · 4 years

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it is losing my mind over lapis lazuli time y’all

sorry it took me so long everyone, I place the blame squarely on sims 4, phoebe bridgers music, and my reread of the raven cycle trilogy

have this pretty rock as an apology gift also remember it for later hehe

Anyways, song deconstruction time hehe

First! Of! All! the country style intro. I know y’all have been going on about how you can’t vibe with it because it gives you country music feels. I, for one, will not stand for this slander. There may be country style elements in the song, but Tyler’s voice carries it better than any modern stadium country music I’ve ever heard. Secondly, considering what the song itself discusses, I find the country energy to be both delightfully intentional and meaningful.

The song begins with a very brash sounding, relatively simple guitar pattern compared to their usual openings. However, beginning with the line “well if there’s one thing I know” and continuing progressively through the following stanzas, they begin to drop away elements from the beginning more “country-esque” trappings of the song. For example, dropping away the more metallic baseline beat, and layering in some more delicate, higher notes on banjo and guitar. At the line “you don’t know what you don’t know yet,” the repetitive guitar run falls away and allows the violin, which was building all through the first few stanzas, to show through. Additionally, Maggie’s voice, which was most quieter, backing vocals in the first few stanzas, rises to equal volume.

Overall, gradually the song progresses from being very country sounding to adding in many more recognizable “oh hellos style” elements. Even in doing this, the song does still retain elements of the “country style.” For example, a more audible drum track, and more rock-esque group vocals. At the end of the song, most of the instrumental backing is dropped away so that Tyler can deliver a very intimate, slower stanza, a direct opposite to the opening. It is closer to a “slow country” energy than most of the Oh Hellos’ more delicate music, which generally has more instrumental backing (see: This Will End and the opening of Like the Dawn) while at the same time being the opposite of the opening instrumentally and vocally- soft where it was strong, and flowing where it was rolling. It remains country-referential while still auditorally representing the arc of change depicted within the song.

The “country” motif can be interpreted as representative of an attempt to be more palatable- to create a message that will be accepted or at least listened to by an opposing audience, the difficulty of which is addressed in the song itself.

- lyric analysis below -

I don’t mean to speak so collectively I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna hear it what can I say, what can I say, what can I say the more I recite it the more you wanna fight it the more my language is sounding fabricated

Using “I” statements is a classic communication tactic used when trying to appeal to an opposing, hostile, or defensive audience. The use of the word “collectively” brings to mind an intriguing duality, with it both relating to the generaliztions the singer is attempting to avoid as well as the concept of in-group dynamics addressed back in Passerine with “birds of a feather.”

The line “what can I say” is repeated, both creating the sense of a mental dialogue- struggling for a way to connect with the person the singer is speaking to- as well as relating to the next lines “the more I recite it, the more you wanna fight it.”

The concept of language being fabricated- and considering if the things we speak are true, especially if not everyone agrees on what is true, is brought to mind here. the theme echoes in the snow-white linens of Cold as well as the see-through paper pages of Glowing. (not to mention all of Rose). Even so, the singer only worries that their language will sound fabricated- they worry that the person they’re singing to will not believe them, or accuse them of parroting another’s words.

but if there’s one thing I know it’s either the growing is slow or it cuts to the bone moving too quickly

Themes of growth and pain from past albums and other songs are brought to mind here- both the progress of change in Grow from Eurus, and the cutting edge of the sickle from Rose. Overall, this verse illustrates how difficult it is to broach topics of issue with those who disagree- feeling like too much at once or no progress at all.

so I’ll keep half of my words in my mouth let the syllables fall out at a steady trickling I’ll be your roof caving in

The singer paints their attempts to reach out to their audience as “a steady trickling”- not the unstoppable force of change New River, but not nothing either- a resolute commitment to a staid task. Their description of holding words and syllables in your mouth brings to mind the concept of “sweetening” tones or “honeyed words,” but instead they parallel the effort with something much different and altogether delightfully new- a roof caving in.

you don’t know what you don’t know yet

yeah, I go on forgetting it don’t you go on forgetting it, too

don’t you go on forgetting it

These lines serve as a representation of the dialogue the singer has with both themselves (chastising) as well as what they want to impart on the person they’re singing to- not necessarily the scolding tone they treat themselves with, but a sense of responsibility and self-driven duty to understand the world better.

I don’t mean to speak so intrusively I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna see it nothing old, nothing new

This verse mirrors the opening lines, with a change from “hear it” to “see it,” implying a tonal shift from a more appeal-based stance to one that’s more resigned, if that makes sense. Rather than debating over what the audience is willing to hear/approaching them on their terms, the singer speaks of “seeing something,” implying that rather than the issue being the singer’s inability to reach out properly, it is that their audience is unwilling/unable to simply look at/percieve what is already there. The combination of this with the word change of “collectively” to “intrusively” supports this progession of message theme, acknowledging that they’ve now switched their approach to a more active tone.

The last line “nothing old, nothing new” references the classic wedding tradition of wearing “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.” The flipped first two phrases seem to connect to the line about not even “[wanting] to see it”- perhaps implying that the audience is ignoring both past and present evidence that they should change their perspective. Additionally, it brings to mind the second part of the phrase- “something borrowed and something blue.” These link back to the central concepts of the song, with “something borrowed” reflecting the singer’s realization that they need to understand the person they’re singing to in order for their message to actually connect with them. “Something blue” connects to the next part of the song, which I will discuss presently.

but if there’s two things I know it’s that the sky looked white and the water like wine when I first met you

but somewhere along the line Rayleigh scattered across my eye and I found her blue yeah, I found her blue

I’ve grouped this set of verses together because they combine into one statement and don’t really make sense as seperate verses. Here, the concept of “blue” is established as a metaphor for being able to understand or relate to another person’s persepctive or lived experience. The line Rayleigh scattered across my eye” refers to the Rayleigh scattering scientific principle, wherein certain types of glass and other translucent materials can appear blue from one side while showing orange or other colored light on the opposite side. See the image I added at the beginning for reference.

The description of “the sky look[ing] white and the water like wine” is a reference to the greek/roman era when they lacked a word for the color blue. This alludes to their perspective when they first met the person they’re addressing- they were unable to see blue, but more than that, they didn’t even have a way to describe it, the concept was foreign to them. However, they follow this up by saying that eventually, “Rayleigh scattered across [their] eye” allowing them to see the connection between what they saw and what the other person saw.

I must have found a new cone in my eye what other lapis lazuli was hiding behind my color blindness what did I miss, what did I miss, what did I miss

The singer continues describing their revelation, painting it as though they’d found a new cone in their eye- allowing them to percieve an entirely new spectrum of light/a new color in the world. They then fret over what other things they may have missed in their “blindness” or other forms of unawareness. While this last verse is seemingly reflective, when taken with the two that precede it, it seems that while the singer has taken this to not only to better their own understanding, but to use their moment of clarity to help their audience to do the same as they have, essentially telling the person they’re singing to- if I can do it, you can as well.

The last line is repeated three times, mirroring the opening verses. Where before they asked themselves “what can I say”- desperately searching for a way to convince or reach the person they’re addressing, they’re now come full circle, and answered their own question. If they want to make that connection, they have to seek understanding, much the same way they asked the addressee in the beginning.

#lyric analysis #the oh hellos #lapis lazuli #my thoughts

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sanstropfremir · 3 years

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So I got my wisdom teeth removed which means I’ve been sitting in bed binging kpop content as one does when they have a mouth full of gauze and I may or may not have listened to Gambler by Monsta X for like the past two hours on loop so I’m curious what your opinions on it were. I think I saw somewhere that you had plans to put out a post on it but I’m assuming you got busy with other stuff unless I missed it then it that case ignore me.

I’m very glad that I.M continues to be horny on main. For the longest time, I thought his line was “Hard as F” instead of “Hot as F” and I did not question it. Monsta X are really the only group that are allowed to have absolutely random and incomprehensible English lyrics (and also maybe Lucas). Like “I’m a handsome sum of money”, “my suit is black, my suit is fresh”, “Zero, Zero Lucky Bang”. I don’t know what that means but they say it so well that I don’t care. The intro to the song was interesting with the monotonous singing and I was a bit worried until that electric guitar started and IM and Kihyun’s parts and then I was absolutely sold. That bridge with the “she’s gone” part and the final chorus absolutely kills me like this song just continuously gets better and better and builds and builds and it’s so satisfying. It’s 4 minutes long and it feels it but in the best way? Like it toys the line between being too long but having enough interesting, different things in there. I’m of the opinion that this is Monsta X at their finest. Like they are such a consistent group and they know exactly what is expected of them and they delivery every time.

i hope you are recovering from your wisdom teeth surgery!! i got mine out when i was 17 and it was awful. i couldn't eat real food for two weeks and now i can't drink protein shakes without getting war flashbacks

you are correct i am going to talk about gambler! however i did kind of re-jig what i wanted to talk about about it, which is a very weird sentence to type out and read back in my head. i originally wanted to talk about the steadicam work in the music show stages, because it was one of the first comebacks that i've seen that in this year, but then over the last month or so there's been a whole bunch of steadicam stuff so i was compiling it all to make into one bigger post talking about several different songs/groups. but then also someone sent me an ask about want and then i got a bit off the rails because you know me and taemin, so this actually gives me a chance to talk about some of the other stuff in the gambler mv that i found interesting!

i do agree (and i've said this before) that mx is one of the most consistent groups active right now. they've established a really strong group brand that's been relatively consistent across their korean promotions and it's a look that really works for them as an "older" idol group (they're not old, it's just that they're not 22). although their mvs have usually been very sharp and well styled, i think these last three (korean) comebacks (fantasia, love killa, gambler) have had the strongest aesthetic and thematic unity, in addition to branching out a bit more from the general visual structure of a kpop mv. a thing that happens sometimes with kpop mvs is that the performers don't look like they belong in the sets; this happens most frequently with white/black voidspaces, but it also happens when, for example, they're out dancing in an empty dilapidated warehouse wearing pristine tailored suits. but the fantasia mv is practically draconian in it's commitment to colour palette and ornament, so by sheer visual force everything is integrated. love killa has a very cinematic and referential style without being overly obnoxious about those references. and gambler follows along the same vein as love killa but goes that extra bit further. i would not be surprised to find out that these are all directed by the same person.

to answer the question that you were not really asking, a fair amount of lyrics are referential to james bond. so the "my suit is black, my suit is fresh" -> famous for the traditional black suit/white shirt combo. "zero zero lucky bang" -> zero (0) zero (0) lucky (number 7) bang (the famous shot from the gunbarrel intro). "i got a vesper martini" -> a type of martini that the bond girl from casino royale is named after (vesper lynd), also martini (shaken, not stirred). it's obviously not a 1:1 because the mv takes more from bank heist tropes than strict spy tropes, but there's enough crossover that the comparison still works! another good example of using an existing property for spice rather than as the sole theme.

gambler, like fantasia, has a very strict colour palette, and does a really great job of integrating costume into enviroment. it's not perfect, since i think in the cinematic language that they're trying to establish the leather looks are a bit kpop, but i don't really have a real complaint about them because if mx can do anything, they can pull off leather. but in every other look, they look like they belong in those environments. it helps that a lot of it was filmed on location in (i think?) a hotel, so there was an oppotunity to match the style of the suits to the architecture and decoration of the preexisting rooms, as well as doing additional set dressing.

it's kind of interesting looking back at their mvs, prior to 2020 they were very focused on the performance/dance element of the mvs, which tracks because their performance and presence is one of their stronger traits. but the last three comebacks, which have been post pandemic and post wonho, have spent more time on creating a different viewing experience with the mvs, and then leaving their music show stages + other performances to pull out the big guns (shownu's arms).

#and yes if you are wondering i have in fact seen every bond film #mx w #and skyfall is one of my favourite movies of all time #the cinnamon topography......immaculate #the adele bond song........stunning #ive been thinking about the final fight sequence in the moors like once a month for the last 9 years #also the shot of him riding the boat into the dragons maw in macau......so heavy handed but MWAH it looks so good #also i keep wanting to write gamblr instead of gambler........sigh #i risk putting myself on thin ice but i actually really like all about luv and think its a very cohesive album #someones someone middle of the night and who do u love are some of the best english releases by idols #monsta x #kpop analysis #kpop questions #text #answers #group analysis #im going to finish this want writeup (its convoluted) and then move on to steadicam stuff #im going to cover gambler/dont call me/advice/sf9 teardrop/kingdom karma/ace higher/maybe taeyeon weekend?#im taking suggestions though if you've noticed steadicam in any music show stages that's been interesting please send me a message!

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perkwunos · 3 years

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… because the practices and principles of anthroposemiosis are more immediately accessible and intelligible to us than are those of other species, researchers in the humanities (in which we will include the social sciences, who are also researchers into anthroposemiosis) have often been far ahead of their counterparts in the natural sciences in discovering and understanding both those aspects of semiosis that are unique to human semiosis, and those that are common across one or more species. This finding should come as no surprise, since the humanities are concerned, by definition, with understanding the workings of “the symbolic species”, and thus – unlike, say, 17th to twentieth century physics and chemistry – have had no choice but to investigate the unique nature of sign relationships per se.

And what they have discovered in that regard is increasingly convergent with what even non-semiotically inclined biologists have been discovering about the nature of biological activity in toto – i.e., that it is processural, multi-causal, multiply interconnected, and demonstrates a recursivity of enacted, embodied, embedded and emergent (bottom up) and downwardly causal (top down) interaction that is distributed, in that must be actively accomplished, at almost every level of its expression.

Yet long before biologists were thinking that way, many in the social sciences and the humanities were already doing so, and my own first introduction to these ideas came not from reading Hoffmeyer, Kauffman, Deacon, Wilden, Waddington or Bateson, but from studying the findings and methods of Conversation Analysis, a still relatively obscure field founded by the sociologists Emanuel Schegloff (1937–) and Harvey Sacks (1935–1975). For much in the same way that the development of Biosemiotics was a response to the reductionist Dawkinsian notion of the innate, all-controlling Selfish Gene, the development of Conversation Analysis, too, was a response to the then equally dominating and reductionist Chomskian paradigm of an innate, language-controlling and individual-brain-instantiated Universal Grammar.

Rigorously empirical and devoted to an explication of how language-using agents themselves display to each other their understandings of what they are doing as they are collaboratively making meaning (as opposed to how theoreticians of such meaning-making may interpret those same displays analytically), the nascent disciplines of Conversation Analysis and Talk-in-Interaction constituted a radical departure from the formal and the neo-positivist reductionism so often prevalent in the domain of language study. Researchers in these fields have compiled compelling evidence demonstrating that it is the active co-participation of situated speakers in creating contexts of relevancy, constraint and possibility for each other’s immediately subsequent actions which provides the emergent structure upon which social understanding and (later) “language” ultimately rests, rather than the isolated mental computations of referential tokens within the bounds of some predetermined, category-structuring ‘syntax.’

It was this understanding – that ‘meaning’ is predicated on all points by situated interaction between agents, objects and their sign systems, and that such a triadic relation was not only irreducible, but mutually constitutive, being an objectively empirical aspect of reality, and not an individualistic mental ghost of it– that primed It was this understanding – that ‘meaning’ is predicated on all points by situated interaction between agents, objects and their sign systems, and that such a triadic relation was not only irreducible, but mutually constitutive, being an objectively empirical aspect of reality, and not an individualistic mental ghost of it--that primed my own later receptivity to the same triadic co-constitution that Biosemiotics rightly shows us is the hallmark of not only all organismic interaction with world, but with all biological being per se.

Donald Favareau, How Can the Study of the Humanities Inform the Study of Biosemiotics?

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I guess what I mean is that I don’t see how transness can be a matter of just an individual identity like that. Gender is social, and a gender is something other people have to give you, for better or for worse. What does it really mean to say “I identify as x” if that’s not linked to a social or physical transition?

my friend im not sure the purpose of this series of asks, unless youre just trying to flesh out your own opinions and feelings about modern-day transness with me, in which case i welcome it! however if thats not the case, and youre assuming i have opinions that i may not necessarily have, then this is a little misguided.

but anyways! i agree that transness is dependently originated, especially social and societally so. but also, how we navigate the social world and how we internalize it is a personal journey! i for one would not say that my gender is independent of anything around me, but how i approach it, engage with it, etc, is a me thing, in the same way that problems that i inherited from my mom are something that i have to deal with in therapy; yeah, someone gave it to me, or yeah it was a cooperative effort in its production, but when push comes to shove im still dealing with it on my own, even if i have help.

i do take slight issue with the phrase “something other people have to give to you”, but mostly in a qualifying way rather than a disputing way. we are neither helpless against the gendering of others nor are we sole proprietors of our gender. we have the autonomy to do what we want about how we express ourselves to others, but the codes we use only have so much impact on the relative mutability of our position within the gendered societal matrix. if this wasnt your intention with those words, thats ok, but i just wanted to clear that up in case someone interpreted them that way and assumed i co-signed them.

and finally, im generally on the fence about a transness without intentional change. i dont really care to rate the reality of someones relationship with their gender, so the post i made recently was mostly just stating stuff ive observed. a lot of trans people dont seek out social or medical transition or dont desire to change anything about themselves other than self-referential language, and thats just how it is for them. this is especially the case for nonbinary people. i think its mostly fun, because although i dont “consider” myself a post-modernist anymore because i literally dont care, i still like to do the classic lewis carroll “imagine seven impossible things before breakfast” but with de-essentializing phenomena, nondualistically and with tetralemma logical sequences. how can we hold any characteristic essential to a phenomenons definition when all phenomena are empty of any innate, independent value anyway? yeah, we can argue that as long were operating under the ubiquity of conventional reality then we can debate the actuality of conventional denotative characteristics, but i think thats disingenuous so long as i invoke the ultimate reality of emptiness as a, well, better way of living life, or not-life, whatever.

and then i think about lesbianism and im like yeah i dont give a fuck im defending these pillars of lesbian bahahahahaha its my biggest attachment! what can i say!

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Sql Meeting Questions You'll Bear in mind

The training course contains interactive SQL practice exercises that go from less complicated to challenging. The interactive code editor, data collections, and difficulties will certainly assist you seal your expertise. Nearly all SQL work candidates undergo exactly the exact same stressful process. Below at LearnSQL.com, we have the lowdown on all the SQL method as well as prep work you'll need to ace those interview concerns as well as take your profession to the next level. Reportage is finish the aspects of progress of de facto mop up of test cases defined in the design and neuter the narrative % in signed up with requirementset. If you're speaking with for pliant docket jobs, below are 10 interview questions to ask. Make sure to close at the end of the meeting. As well as exactly how can there be obstacle on freedom comey. The very first affair to memorialize or two the emplacement is that people. We have to offer the void condition in the where clause, where the whole information will certainly replicate to the brand-new table. NOT NULL column in the base table that is not chosen by the sight. Connection in the database can be specified as the connection in between greater than one table. In between these, a table variable is faster mainly as it is stored in memory, whereas a momentary table is kept on disk. Hibernate allow's us compose object-oriented code and internally converts them to indigenous SQL questions to carry out against a relational database. A data source trigger is a program that immediately implements in reaction to some occasion on a table or sight such as insert/update/delete of a record. Mostly, the database trigger aids us to maintain the integrity of the data source. Likewise, IN Statement runs within the ResultSet while EXISTS keyword operates on virtual tables. In this context, the IN Declaration additionally does not operate queries that connects with Virtual tables while the EXISTS key phrase is made use of on connected questions. The MINUS key words basically subtracts in between two SELECT queries. The outcome is the difference in between the first inquiry as well as the second query. In case the dimension of the table variable goes beyond memory size, after that both the tables carry out likewise. Referential integrity is a relational data source idea that suggests that accuracy and also consistency of information must be maintained in between key as well as foreign tricks. Q. Checklist all the feasible worths that can be stored in a BOOLEAN data field. A table can have any type of variety of foreign secrets defined. Accumulated question-- A query that summarizes details from multiple table rows by using an aggregate function. Hop on over to the SQL Technique program on LearnSQL.com. This is the hands-down ideal area to evaluate and combine your SQL skills before a big meeting.

You do have full web gain access to as well as if you need even more time, do not hesitate to ask for it. They are more worried regarding completion product rather than anything else. However make no mistake concerning assuming that it will resemble any coding round. They do a through end to finish examine your logical as well as coding capacity. As well as from that you need to analyze and also execute your strategy. This will not require front end or database coding, console application will do. So you have to get information and after that conserve them in listings or something to make sure that you can utilize them. Piece with the 2nd interview, you will certainly find far and away frequently that a much more senior partner or theatre supervisor typically performs these. Buyers wish to make a move in advance their purchasing big businessman obtains combed. Obtain conversations off on the right track with conversation starters that ne'er pave the way. The last stages of a discover telephone call needs to be to steer far from voicing frustrations as well as open up a discourse nigh completion result a result could pitch. Leading new residence of york designer zac posen worked with delta workers to make the special consistent solicitation which was unveiled one twelvemonth ago. The briny affair youâ $ re stressful to learn is what they recognizing and also what they do or else currently. And also this is a instead complex question, to be truthful. Nonetheless, by asking you to create one, the questioners can inspect your command of the SQL phrase structure, along with the way in which you come close to resolving a trouble. So, if you do not procure to the ideal response, you will most likely be offered time to assume and can absolutely catch their attention by exactly how you attempt to solve the issue. Using a hands-on method to handling realistic jobs is many times way more vital. That's why you'll have to take care of useful SQL meeting concerns, also. You can finish up both questions by saying there are two types of database administration systems-- relational and non-relational. SQL is a language, designed just for dealing with relational DBMSs. It was established by Oracle Company in the early '90s. It adds procedural functions of shows languages in SQL. DBMS figure out its tables through a hierarchal manner or navigational way. This serves when it concerns storing data in tables that are independent of each other as well as you do not wish to change other tables while a table is being loaded or edited. myriad of online database programs to aid you come to be an specialist and crack the interviews quickly. Sign up with is a query that gets relevant columns or rows. There are four kinds of signs up with-- inner sign up with left join, ideal sign up with, as well as full/outer sign up with. https://geekinterview.net DML permits end-users insert, update, retrieve, and also erase data in a database. This is one of the most prominent SQL meeting questions. A gathered index is utilized to purchase the rows in a table. A table can possess only one gathered index. Restrictions are the representation of a column to implement data entity and also uniformity. There are two levels of restraint-- column level and table level. Any kind of row typical across both the result collection is eliminated from the last output. The UNION key words is made use of in SQL for incorporating multiple SELECT inquiries but deletes replicates from the result collection. Denormalization allows the retrieval of areas from all normal types within a data source. Relative to normalization, it does the contrary and puts redundancies right into the table. SQL which means Requirement Question Language is a server shows language that provides interaction to database fields and also columns. While MySQL is a kind of Data source Monitoring System, not an real shows language, more particularly an RDMS or Relational Database Management System. Nonetheless, MySQL likewise executes the SQL phrase structure. I answered every one of them as they were all simple inquiries. They told me they'll contact me if I obtain selected and also I was rather positive because for me there was absolutely nothing that went wrong but still I got absolutely nothing from their side. Standard concerns regarding household, education and learning, jobs, placement. As well as a little conversation on the answers of sql and also java programs that were given in the previous round. INTERSECT - returns all distinctive rows picked by both inquiries. The procedure of table layout to minimize the data redundancy is called normalization. We require to divide a data source into 2 or more table as well as define connections in between them. Yes, a table can have numerous foreign secrets as well as only one main trick. Keys are a important attribute in RDMS, they are basically fields that link one table to another and also promote rapid data retrieval as well as logging through handling column indexes. In terms of databases, a table is described as an setup of organized entrances. It is further divided into cells which have different fields of the table row. SQL or Structured Question Language is a language which is used to communicate with a relational database. It provides a means to control as well as produce databases. On the other hand, PL/SQL is a dialect of SQL which is utilized to enhance the capabilities of SQL. SQL is the language made use of to produce, upgrade, and also change a database-- articulated both as 'Se-quell' as well as'S-Q-L'. Before beginning with SQL, let us have a quick understanding of DBMS. In simple terms, it is software application that is made use of to develop and manage data sources. We are going to stick with RDBMS in this write-up. There are likewise non-relational DBMS like MongoDB used for huge data analysis. There are various profiles like data analyst, data source administrator, and information architect that need the expertise of SQL. Aside from assisting you in your interviews, this article will additionally offer a fundamental understanding of SQL. I can also recommend " LEADING 30 SQL Meeting Coding Tasks" by Matthew Urban, actually fantastic publication when it comes to the most typical SQL coding meeting concerns. This error typically shows up because of syntax errors available a column name in Oracle data source, discover the ORA identifier in the mistake code. Make certain you typed in the correct column name. Additionally, take special note on the aliases as they are the one being referenced in the mistake as the void identifier. Hibernate is Object Relational Mapping device in Java.

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What is postmodernism? And why is it bad?

Postmodernism is a cultural movement that started in the 1960s or thereabouts that said there are no grand narratives that can explain the world as we know it. There is no single standard for “reality”; it’s all in how we perceive it. It’s the idea that everything is relative; you can’t really say something is true or good or real because it might not be those things to someone else. Everything is constructed socially (we all agree on X) but can be changed when the consensus shifts, because nothing is set in stone. In the arts, postmodernism allowed artists to just flip the script completely. “This is art because I am defining art myself.” “I am using the conventions of what we typically think of as ‘art’ to comment on how those conventions are largely meaningless and subject to change.” The whole concept of “meta jokes” is VERY postmodern--I’m calling attention to the form of, say, a TV show or a novel to make you think about those forms differently. How do they reinforce your ideas about the world? Are those ideas really true, or are they just socially constructed? Everything gets very ironic and self-referential very fast.

Now, in my opinion, postmodernism uses an obvious truth-- “people have different experiences that affect how they view the world”--and takes it way too far, to the point that even rationality itself is seen as probably fake. We pretend to be rational, but we’re not really. We’re just doing whatever absolves our own egos. And the problem with that is obviously that, if nothing is rational, everything basically becomes a power play where society has no grounding ideal or system where it can make decisions. You lose the ability to say, “This is wrong,” when you’ve deconstructed the language around universal concepts of goodness, truth, morality, etc. Postmodernism doesn’t like absolutes like that. It just makes it difficult to have discussions at all because people steeped in postmodernism will obfuscate the point and get hung up on definitions, or they’ll keep asking you to “interrogate your biases” so that your own idea of justice is suspect and not universal. It’s just laden with irony and a sort of lazy cynicism where they just want everyone to accept that nothing has any meaning, like it’s an enlightened way of thinking, when actually it’s kind of scared of saying anything!

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Our Super Fun Cultural Dark Age. Some questions about what I’ve been soaking up.

-By a Sponge.

Fairy tales are interesting because they are originally cultural artifacts. Have you ever read Homer’s Odyssey or Iliad and noticed the language of the text? If not, give one a go!

A diversion further into why you might ‘give one a go’.

Secondhand bookshops are brimming with Homer. I mean that. Brimming. They’re practically paved in it. You’d be doing them a service. Most translations use very simple language (more accurate to the original text), honestly Harry Potter uses more complex language and if you don’t like it you can just close the book. So, you can’t have much of an excuse, eh?

*Thank you*

Welcoming one back to the actual direction of the writing.

Now then, regardless. Back to the actual point. They are full of ceaseless references to gods, divinity and praise to ‘Pallas Athena’ and such. I mean, these people probably had Athena bless their milk and Weet Bix every morning. These days, it might seem a bit much to many readers, myself included (pressed wheat scraps are blessing enough). However, these works are cultural artifacts, and as readers we can learn something from the interpretation of the time depicted. They offer a breath of fresh air from dusty old artifacts and lists of statistics from ancient bureaucracies. They give us clues into how actual, regular people, actually thought day to day. How their brains worked.

Broad, sweeping generalisations aside-

Generally, in pre-revolutionary France, it’s safe to say a great many people were hungry and angry with the unfair Ancient Regime. Therefore, the French versions of Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel, told at the time were fatalist lessons. Pitting peasant guile against cruel and greedy hoarders of food, rather than treasure or power. Whereas in at the same time in Germany, the same stories were often told as cautionary tales, depicting the horribly violent fates of greedy peasants stealing and the scamming powerful forces around them. The French of the time clearly had a hero of sorts, however the Germans did not. There are possibly hundreds or maybe even thousands of versions of Little Red Riding Hood alone all around the world and all through history all with their own twists and conclusions relevant to the time and place.

The Brother’s Grim famously travelled around assembling these stories from Europe into definitive, marketable versions. More or less standardising fairy tales into the ones we know today. What this means however is that- and be warned, I’m about to make some broad sweeping generalisations! It means that more or less every human culture has had the same stories. From Ancient China to Rome, there was a culturally relevant ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ or ‘Hansel and Gretel’.

This is important to understand because these days, typically when fairy and folk tales are reimagined for an adult audience, they are taken in one of three directions.

1. Just how lovely and shiny must it be, to not be a dark age?

The first direction is retelling a familiar story or set of tropes and putting it into a more contemporary setting, such as, high fantasy or outer space. Media that does this is very well known, popular and recognisable. Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Snow White and the Huntsmen, or Maleficent. Typically, these stories are written to appeal to a wide audience and follow particular tropes and ideas, making a big splash at the box office. They need very little introduction, so, that’s it really. Moving on.

2. Some might say analytics is just punching yourself in the gut, over and over again.

The second direction is in my opinion more interesting, the self-referential, deconstructive direction. As it typically targets a more niche audience, allowing for a more unique perspective and viewing experience. Media like Pan’s Labyrinth, American McGee’s Alice and Jin Roh: Wolf Brigade. All these reinterpret themes into a more contemporary context, keeping their value as cultural artifacts and ‘true’ fairy and folk tales. While I am not arguing that Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings are not an important part of our culture. They serve a moral and idealistic fantasy that offers an escape to the reality of the world. Rather than interpreting that reality into a fantasy setting. This isn’t to say one is better than the other, this is merely to highlight why one is a more valuable item to our history and culture.

This direction confronts the elements of society and culture that create fairy tales, they are simply a more direct line to the value of the stories. Perhaps then they are not the same, perhaps by doing away with a lot of the symbolism they are no more than blunt instruments? Perhaps it is not fair to lump any media like this together, as each is deserving of its own fresh analysis (I did however warn you about broad, sweeping generalisations). The same can perhaps be said for all of this. Finding the line that separates any of these things is probably more personal and this is all very subjective. So, bearing this all in mind, I will introduce the final direction.

3. Doctor Frankenstein, and how I learned to stop worrying and fear humanity.

The ‘Horror’ genre. Now, I will not allude to my warning of broad sweeping generalisations a third time. So by ‘Horror’, I will let you use your own opinion, informed or otherwise. Typically many cultural fears and taboos are explored through horror entertainment. In many ways this is the natural progression of the fairy tale. What makes a horror film scary is relative to what you as a person are afraid of. Films like Dawn of the Dead and It Follows are not particularly scary on their own. But the cultural baggage that follows them is. They pray on our insecurities, which is why different parts will be hilarious and terrifying to different people. The same is true for fairy tales, to a starving person, a Witch living in a house of gingerbread, who lures children in to cannibalise them is probably terrifying. To a starving hungry peasant your entire existence is a battle against a cruel system that starves you and exploits you. So, maybe it is in this way, fairy and folk tales are perhaps better viewed as horror stories?

That was a question. But you should probably just go on.

Each of these three directions are a part of our culture and so then a part of us. We need them all to keep our identities. However, the investment in escapist storytelling is an unfortunate trend. This habit of converting important artifacts into objects of escapist fantasy is perhaps damaging to us. It’s in a way a form of censorship and it impacts everyone’s own identity in some way. By not spending time and money on a more balanced approach to storytelling, but rather focusing on a more focused one. It can damage the storytellers themselves. For example, Disney’s company image often directly clashes with this and while they produce many technical and visual masterpieces. Personally, I don’t see them as particularly focused on preserving or analysing culture. Rather creating fantasies based off false, hyper real cultures. The more media a company like this produces along this line, the more normalised its direction becomes. Thusly, the more obscure silenced the other directions become. And while it is important to remember, there will always be demand. But there may not always be works of quality to satisfy that demand.

In conclusion: squeezing the sponge.

In many ways this is a very subjective line of thought and please treat it as an attempt to question rather than to answer. I am just trying to have a conversation and I hope this perspective helps you understand what you are soaking up a little bit better. As it has for me! If not, I hope it none the less makes for an interesting read (I have tried to make it fun, honestly).

To summarise. Paranormal Activity is more of a modern fairy tale than Maleficent. And Pan’s Labyrinth, while certainly using an archaic formula. It is perhaps better viewed as a brilliant satire in a classic formula than a modern fairy tale. The Avengers, Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings are culturally significant and incredible works of fiction, but offer little to society as a hole aside from first class, prime cut, rib eye escapism (that is not to say they cannot have great personal meaning and value). Lastly, history is more than dusty old ruins and bones. It’s more than lists and battle statistics. History is people. It’s us. And if our stories and artifacts reflect us. I think it’d be shameful to be remembered for an age of escapism.

A final thought-

To all of this, a quantity of pot might beg a question:

Does this then mean we create reality, based off a fear of ourselves?

I don’t know and I haven’t bothered to ask the question, sorry. Perhaps ask your neurologist?

#hyper realism #fairy tales #writing #horror #fucking #disney #by a sponge

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Duplicate Content Issues and How to Solve Them http://bit.ly/2QL5eQb

[one_full autop=0] Let’s talk about the issue of Duplicate Content. It’s estimated that duplicate content makes up about 29% of the web, according to a study by Raven. You may be thinking “Well, I know plagiarism is wrong and I don’t copy someone else’s content.” However, duplicate content is unintentionally created in most cases. The most common scenario is when a topic is written about more than once by the same company or organization. Another instance when duplicate content occurs is when one webpage can be accessed by multiple URLs. Highly similar content is viewed as duplicate content by Google and greatly affects SEO ranking. Content that has duplicates is unlikely to ever rank as the top search result even when searched for with relevant keywords.[/one_full][one_full][one_half]

Why is Duplicate Content Bad?

While having similar versions of a post may not seem overly offensive to a human, we have to remember that it’s not only humans that visit our site. Humans and search engine bots view and treat content in different ways. As we’ve discussed in our other articles on SEO, how well our content ranks depends on how we cater to both types of visitors. When our bot visitors come across duplicate content, it tries to identify which is the “master copy” among the duplicates. When it becomes confused, it may choose the wrong post (not the one you wanted to rank) because your similar posts are competing with each other.[/one_half] [one_half_last] [/one_half_last]

What constitutes duplicate content to humans and bots?

Take the scenario where there are multiple blog posts on the same topic for example. A human reading two highly similar posts may see that there are similarities and differences in each post. However, to a bot, two highly similar posts are equivalent to two of the same post. In the other scenario where a website has different variations on the URL, bots count each variation as a separate entity. Take a look at this example given by Moz in the article Canonicalization: http://www.marketing.com https://www.marketing.com http://marketing.com http://marketing.com/index.php http://marketing.com/index.php?r… In this example, the URLs above would take us to the same location and as a human, we would likely consider this as one destination, one page. However, a search engine bot would consider this as five individual pages of duplicate content. Another problematic situation arises with product pages for e-commerce websites, where each variation of a product appears to be duplicate content. When all of this “duplicate” content compete against each other for search engine ranking, this becomes a serious problem.

How Do Duplicate Content Issues Affect SEO?

Search engine bots become confused when there is too much content that appears the same. In the article Canonical Tags, Moz states some of the ways that duplicate content affects SEO: [/one_full][one_full][one_third]

Dilution of Ranking Ability:

Our visibility and ability to rank could become dispersed throughout the multiple page versions instead of being focused on the original page [/one_third][one_third]

Reduced Visibility of Unique Content:

If there is too much information for bots to crawl, some of our unique content may get passed over. [/one_third][one_third]

Displaying The Wrong URL:

Search engine bots may choose the wrong URL to display on searches when we don't specify what to do with duplicate content. [/one_third][/one_full][one_full]

How Do I Fix Duplicate Content Issues?

One of the ways that some have attempted to fix the duplicate content problem is by giving bots instructions in the robots.txt file not to crawl a page. Although it might sound reasonable, this is not an effective solution.

Canonicalization is the Key to Managing Duplicate Content Issues

What is canonicalization? “Fixing duplicate content issues all comes down to the same central idea: specifying which of the duplicates is the "correct" one.” - Duplicate Content by Moz Identifying the canonical version is equivalent to telling search engine bots that a specific page or URL is the one that should be indexed and ranked. There are different approaches to canonicalizing duplicate content. The two methods we are going to cover is the 301 Redirect and the Rel Canonical Tag. Each method has different uses and benefits. [/one_full][one_full]

Two Ways to Canonicalize:

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Canonicalize by Redirecting Humans and Bots: The 301 Redirect

With the 301 Redirect, we are identifying the “master copy” by redirecting both humans and bots from a duplicate page to the “master copy”- the canonical page. This method is best used in a situation where it is not necessary for duplicates to be accessible, such as when multiple URLs lead to the same destination. The duplicates become buried and can no longer be viewed by human and bot visitors. Moz states in the article Redirects that 90-99% of the rank power is transferred from the duplicate to the redirected page when using 301 redirect. For more information on how to set up a 301 redirect, check out this article from Google: Change page URLs with 301 redirects [/one_half][one_half_last][/one_half_last] [one_half][/one_half] [one_half_last]

Canonicalize By Telling Bots What to Do: The Canonical Tag aka Rel Canonical

As we mentioned above, others have tried unsuccessfully to deal with the duplicate content issue by telling bots not to crawl duplicates in a robots.txt file. However, there is a correct way to give instructions to our bot visitors concerning duplicate content. This method utilizes the canonical tag, or rel canonical. The canonical tag is an html element that we use within the duplicate (and master copy) page to designate the canonical- the one we want to index and rank.[/one_half_last] When to Use Rel Canonical The Rel Canonical Tag is especially useful in the situation we listed previously where you have multiple blog posts on the same topic. Since you still want the duplicate blog posts to be accessible to visitors, you would use the Rel Canonical tag on each duplicate to direct rank power and indexing to the page you designate as the canonical. Rel Canonical can even be used across different domains. For example, if you own two websites and have a similar blog post on each site, you can canonicalize the blog post from one website to the other. Additionally, Hubspot lists in the article Canonicalization 101 some other common situations to use Rel Canonical:

Product Variation Pages

Mobile Specific URLs & Subdomain

Region/Country Specific URLs (if page content is in same language)

How to Use Rel Canonical

Identify which of the duplicate pages is the canonical

On the duplicate pages, the canonical tag should point to the URL of the canonical page

On the master copy, the canonical tag should be self-referential- pointing back to itself with its own URL as the canonical.

The tag should look like this, with the absolute URL** of the canonical page replacing where it says http://www.example.com:

Canonicalize Exact and Very-Near Duplicates: Remember, bots see very near duplicates as exact duplicates

Aggregate Unique Content: Consolidate rank power of two similar posts by moving unique content from the duplicate to the canonical post and using the canonical tag accordingly.

Don’t Be Confusing and Give Clear Directions

Specify no more than one rel=canonical for a page. When more than one is specified, all rel=canonicals will be ignored.

Don’t use the canonical tag in conjunction with 301 redirect in the same set of duplicate content. For example don’t use the canonical tag on post 1 to canonicalize post 2, then use 301 redirect on post 2 to redirect back to post 1. (Very confusing.)

Make Sure Your Target Page Exists and Is Not:

A 404 Error (Page Not Found)

Blocked by robots.txt

Set to “noindex” (blocked from search results)

Check Auto-Populated Tags: Some CMS, SEO Plugins and E-commerce systems will auto-populate canonical tags. Be sure to check that these tags point to where you actually want them to.

There are a variety of methods to manage duplicate content and we’ve covered the two main ones in this post. The best method that D4 uses to combat duplicate content from multiple posts on the same topic is simply to not create multiple posts. In creating a single post with unique content that exhaustively covers a single topic, the rank power is already consolidated in that one post. When there is new information available on a topic that has already been covered, it can be more advantageous to update the existing post rather than create a new post that may compete for rank power. Duplicate content is a complicated issue that can have significant impact on SEO. D4 can help with managing duplicate content issues and improving SEO for your website. If you need help creating and managing engaging content, call us at 775-636-9986! [/one_full]

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Yes long, posts like this happen now and then.

It’s occurred to me during the late nights like this that all of this is armour. That people aren’t growing further apart directly because of technology or that we’ve thicker or thinner skin about things around various issues--they are barriers we’ve put up. Some of them are more subtle and others are quite literal, in general it seems like a jumble of all the things we’ve aggregated, conscious and unconscious cultural design.

Things like emergent wearable tech, beginning with portable music moving to the discreet and miniaturized, ballooning into smartphones, watches, tablets, influencing portables, and integrating into shoes and clothes. They are things that seem to build up a type of tech that tracks, covers, and are held relatively close to the body by mimicking the existing barriers that we’ve become socialized to accept, but with a sensory interface that has become pervasive.

The effect of people sealing themselves off psychologically is a mental, emotional, and physical one. It’s easy to see why VR, robotics, and direct digital to physiological interfaces are prevalent and actively being researched again. We are easily drawn in to a very solitary space even when we’re communicating with people. One such symptom is verbal and written communication becoming especially tangled with short forms like text and audio into video, gifs, emoji, and even carrying multiple conversations simultaneously across platforms.

Screens draw the vision with imperceptible flickering business and cool light; on the tactile side we have touch, cursors and brushes, and textual inputs that give real and simulated feedbacks; while our brains are stimulated with a boatload of written, generated, and created works that bombard us with almost everything possible we could want to experience visually, audibly, and intellectually. And when novelty runs out there’s the minutia of something else to follow.

Is it any wonder how quiet some places and public transit can get? People withdraw to a favourite or new album, fandom, an episode of something topical, the news, gossip, a book without pages: the person’s physical location (and really, the object of interest’s physical dimensions) stop mattering. They could be in bed, on vacation, or on a space station, and it wouldn’t matter.

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What it reminds me of is when road rage became a media sensation. Not the strange fascination people had and still have with hair-trigger bursts of violence, but because it was the reaction of people being shocked back into the present moment.

Consumer vehicles in the 1980s and 90s through to now have developed with this immersive design language and technology in mind. Enhanced and assisted controls, refined transmissions, state of the art audio and digital displays, climate controls, sound dampening, and other functions that conceal and seal us in a physical and psychological bubble that distances us from the reality that we’re moving and controlling vehicles, passengers, and sometimes more weight than we want to think about moving at legal speeds.

That is not to say people are less responsible, aware, or responsive; something unexpected happens and it breaks though causing a instinctual reaction of panic or anger like being startled awake or a hypnic jerk.

With the way we are starting to understand less obvious sources of stress and fatigue from sources like diet, lifestyle choices, existing life and social/economic circumstances, but particularly technology and sometimes what it’s shielding or depriving us, I believe there’s a link to those situations with the unbridled comment rage and obsession people have on social media.

Streamed 24-hour news and content cycles, work, leisure, pleasure, entertainment, and social interactions have been forming digital niches for decades now, and new ones appearing all the time. Ballooning echo chambers enhance the polarizations of a compressed world of social, cultural, political, and economic difference; worlds that are continuously in contact, exchange, and clashing with each other while on the same dimensionally flat and virtual space. This doesn’t dismiss any of it as superficial and immaterial when they can actively grow and connect to create real life experiences.

In a way it begins to explain outgrowths of popular culture like binge-watching, idol culture, virtual spectating and e-sports, media/intellectual property franchising, even the soft pop adoption of things like spoilers, trigger warnings, social justice and opposing reactionary movements. Sure, there’s older parallels and similar roles in older media and interactions, but now there’s an increasingly tense breach. On one end, the intense desire and ability to immerse beyond personal limitation to an new extreme (with multiple perspectives, narrative outcomes and specific situations as in video games or a concert, psychological or altered experiences, the perfect persona/character to leverage creative obsession, moral superiority in an expansive argument, or an entire creative work all at once), with overload to the point of exhaustion or degrees of trauma.The latter explains the loss of enjoyment, hyper-critical, and lacking sense of novelty when confronted with so many choices, highlighting where we have very few options and issues beyond our ability to cope.

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It ties into less direct phenomenon like cultural appropriation, plastic surgery, expansive popular body modification, as well as self-referential culture like hipsters, memes, and faux social “irony”. Cultural appropriation, misuse of cultural property, and plain prejudicial racism highlight the clearer and the ambiguous borders of cultural protectionism blockades. Depending on the context and severity, it can also illuminate the complex dynamics of where advantages are, who can effectively claim ownership, and who feels entitled to abuse and take. There aren’t pointless fights and returns to the consistent experience of threat of loss or lack of respect to a less powerful community identity.

Tattoos, piercings, surgical mods and manipulations continue as traditional sensory, cultural, aesthetic, and ritual experiences yet have been tuned very differently. Appropriation of social purpose, conservation of styles as well as techniques and designs, purpose, narrative, or communal resonance can become secondary to aims of achieving a sense of conformity, visual/functional manipulation, producing or enhancing ambiguity, and intentional divergence. Literally embedding a sense-barrier of a design that draws attention, repels it, or visually/mentally/functionally changes

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People have become less particular about how they want to react or deal with situations. Apathy and affected uncaring becomes part of a circuit of actively, over-invested and corresponding counter statements. It’s a world where we’re bombarded with filtered and unfiltered, poorly fact-checked opinions that stack up and we replicate them in a race not to be accurate or correct, but to rebuild the crumbling barriers as they fall.

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Post #7: Noboru and mother—mother and man—man and sea—sea and Noboru...

The key to synchronization is the same as the key to making sense of things which is the key to composing a larger thing by fashioning smaller things into constituent parts—which makes sense because a thing is made sense of by its context. St Augustine wrote that we "must" distinguish between the "beauty" which belongs to the whole in itself, and the "becomingness" which results from right relation to some other thing, as a part of the body to the whole." De Pulchro et Apto—on the beautiful and the fitting. The key is where something fits: just as a morpheme fits into a word, and a word into a sentence, and a sentence into a conversation and a conversation into the mind.

So really it's like matching dominoes or playing Crazy Eights. Except in the world we've got all these senses that we use to make sense of the world. I'm not claiming it's only sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch but it's definitely at least those. So we've got sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch and something can match something else, connect to it, by sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. It's like how the face has parts: the sight of something and the smell of something won't actually be alike—although they sure can be associated. There are certainly lots of associations that are powerful: whether they're innate as I think synesthetic effects are said to be (as, perhaps, the bouba/kiki effect is) or whether they seem to have some sort of cultural mapping (how do you feel about the claim that all dogs are boys and all cats are girls?). But the sight, smell, sound, taste and texture of something are fundamentally distinct despite these associations (and the predictions we can make as a result of these associations—"that surface looks rough...").

So when you're construction a synchronization, or a larger thing, or something that fits together—it's about finding ways to match it all up (isn't it satisfying?). Matches or parallels in language can occur in a variety of these fundamentally distinct ways: by means of the reference, or of the form, or of the style. So Eliot can invoke (or should I say evoke? It's hard to tell, because they sound an awful lot alike...),

-so Eliot can invoke Webster ("But keep the wolf far thence: that's foe to men / For with his nails he'll dig them up agen") with the FORM of his own lines: ("Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men, / Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!"). He invokes Psalm 137 with form too ("By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept...")—tying it to what his poem is describing, and really also to his own life, since he went to recuperate in Switzerland after freaking out at his bank job or whatever.

-Or he can invoke his own earlier work, the stuff involving Sweeney, with the REFERENCE of the words he uses ("The sound of horns and motors which shall bring / Sweeney to Mrs Porter in the spring"). This is also a referential match with the popular song about Mrs Porter and her daughter, which Eliot makes abundantly clear by DUPLICATING (i.e. exactly, at least as far as you can between two TEXTS, since The Waste Land has no melody and though the song has a melody, it doesn't written with the alphabet on paper) the song in a sort of rhetorical unrestrictive relative clause that adds to the substance of the poem ("O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water"). In a sense, he's even PRODUCING a match by JUXTAPOSITION (because we tend to assume that two things are associated if they're juxtaposed, and the frequent encounterance of the juxtaposition of two things leads to an association: ie where there's smoke, there's fire... I mean I think a juxtaposition causes an association and here he's wielding it explicitly) with Verlaine, who he duplicates in the next line (Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!)

-He can also invoke by STYLE (I'm not sure if this is just a broader/less specific look at form or not): compare the pseudo-free verse that dominates most of "The Burial of the Dead", which the occasional linking rhyme that emphasizes or underscores a connection with the conversation-imitative with about Lil and Albert in "A Game of Chess" or with the ABAB-rhymed/iambic-pentameter-cadenced part of "The Fire Sermon" that Tiresias narrates.

These are all the sorts of keys that the Eliotpilled have used to make sense of The Waste Land. They're checking for matches. Because allusion is done through match. Eliot uses the allusion to enhance and build up the meaning: and the allusion is done by MATCHING what or how he writes to something identifiable in the world.

We see this kind of effect in the real world too. When people flirt, they are said (and it's true, you can observe this, go and try it!) to engage in mirroring or imitation of each other—through body language, but you will also find it through tone or etc etc etc. Because it's literally a way of CONNECTING to kind of come in on the same joke or adjust to speaking the same way (friend groups who all start talking the same way) or whatever. So that's what you do: you have an easy time being IN SYNC with someone or CONNECTING with them if you can get more things MATCHED UP. (Consciously or unconsciously.) You've seen the memes about being stealing personality traits once you've begun hanging out with someone, the warnings that you are the average of your five closest friends? It's all there, it's all there. It's like a jigsaw puzzle: something bigger is made by putting pieces together in a way that they fit, and each piece makes more sense once it's got all the pieces around it.

So pieces sort of get built up in layers over time. It's like taking the structure of a building and remodeling it—some things are kept as is, some things are expanded upon, some things are transformed, some things are replaced. You may even imitate another building you've seen when redoing a certain part of your own building! In this way did Johnson's "32-20 Blues" come from James's "22-20 Blues". It seems to me to factor into how things like jokes and expectations and genres work too. You wonder how it goes with co-option of culture and stuff, just sticking Pagan practices into the clothing of Christianity or whatever.

So I'm not saying it's limited to reference, form, style, whatever—there's probably a million ways, just as there's probably (certainly) a million more senses than sight, smell, hearing taste and touch. But it's all about parallels and matches (because two things match if they're parallel, it's like a Bongard problem, it's like identifying different groups of things, its like when two shapes are congruent or similar in geometry.) Humans love a match, humans have got the pattern recognition, obviously a reason for that. (well I'm not going to claim it's because that's how we act bc I'd guess we act that way bc we're wired about matching and pattern recognition—just how the world works? Same kernel everywhere, you can MAKE SENSE OF and BUILD GREATER THINGS in every part of the world this way—isn't DNA with all the matching strands? Paired and associated amino acids, this and that. And something about electrons and valence.) So I just think it's interesting.

Because every difference means a difference. A change to the form of a linguistic construction necessarily corresponds to a change to in the function (the EFFECTS, oh my god i can feel the effects) of the construction. And form could be lexical, syntactic, intonational, whatever, whatever. Sight, smell, hearing, taste or touch. Like the parts of the face. One of my Russian lit professors once told us about the Symbolists, just talking about infinite webs of associations and that sort of thing. Well, maybe they were onto something.

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The War on the Postmodern

Inspired by “Postmodernism Did Not Take Place: On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life” I wish to explore the spaces in which Peterson’s critique of the postmodern impetus reaches the mainstream, the contemporary, the way in which the “postmodern” has been destabilized in itself, has gone through a Derridean process itself which has left it vastly wanting, that has given it a character that is unrecognizable to any meaningful study of the works at hand.

Haider’s article describes Peterson’s rise to a sort of, ironically, postmodern realization of the same sort of intellectual superstar Foucault once was, the refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns in direct addressing of students was the first in a series of often pointless and largely superficial attempts to strike against the apparent postmodern decadence of late capitalism. Peterson’s arguments, and Haider’s responses, largely concentrate upon the construction of an “alt-right” that is found in many places, but especially concentrated amongst those which pride themselves on a certain intellectualism, the creation and codification of Western thought as an act, an action, a means of improvement akin to any given self-help book like Peterson’s. Of course, while refusing the fascist character of Peterson’s eventual conclusions is important, this is not enough, it cannot be reversed from the accused center of critique that Peterson presents to a new one without becoming an Oedipal act of reproduction, a reactionary reversal that merely echoes as a rabattement of the reactionary ideology at hand.

That there have been overwhelmingly similar critiques of postmodernity from both materialist and far more idealist, often indeed fascist, positions is not a surprise, but what may be is the way in which this denotes a certain qualia of postmodern writing that Haider is quick to point out: there may well be no such thing, or a scant collection of it if so. Haider notes that Derrida’s extensive bibliography is very rarely cited, sources on his work taken from extremely limited secondary sources and these sources so skeptical of Derrida that they effectively are as if Peterson is engaging in an intellectual onanism. Instead of investigating Derridean thought, learning that one of Derrida’s most important works is in fact in part understood as a rather lengthy discussion of that which Rousseau considers possible within the bounds of grammar-as-structure, language-as-grammar, the limiting factors by which the introduction of such mitigations occur, and in turn the influence of this upon formative structures of experience, instead Derrida is portrayed as uninspired, lazy, eccentric and self-absorbed. Rather than acknowledging that Derridian writing was so often couched in self-reference and reference as part of its most paradigmatic claims, allusions that even Peterson could condone, a notion of meaningful Derridean critique is rejected outright, with any further development meeting a similar end.

Derrida’s famous lecture, the one that Haider argues most apparently introduced America to the “postmodern” approach is certainly one of his most influential works, but it hardly requires the decline of Western civilization it is implied to preach: instead, it is part of further discussing a concept of dialectic and disparity that is itself part of the eventual course set for deconstructive action toward a text. When Derrida presents the thought experiment of being caught naked by one’s cat, it is an anecdote that has been taken numerous ways, but largely is meant to structure the conceptual text as a space of possibility: the nakedness of the cat and of oneself are similar in a large degree, but the nakedness of the cat is in fact not nakedness at all, rather an impossibility of nakedness for the cat. The cat cannot be naked because it cannot feel shame, it can only observe the nakedness of oneself, and thus allow for the realization of one’s own naked body. It is an induction of disparity through similarity, through the creation of an apparently-even exchange that in fact is based in not only implying but realizing a fundamental disparity that characterizes both the animal and the human, the Deleuzean becoming-animal itself anticipated by this. This is not a new space of inquiry, and in fact that the acknowledgment of certain epistemic claims regarding the Animal Other is one of the first tactics employed by Derrida falls by the wayside. There are echoes of these scholars throughout Derrida’s work, from Plato to Marx, but the lack of a singular means of dedicating any one line of critique to one philosopher rather than the juxtapositions between them leads to the rejection of any of their presence. Effectively, this ties into the “hauntology” that Derrida coins later in his career, the means by which the containing of Marxist critique within liberal-democratic thought, the reversal of the reversal of the reversal, is an ever-present challenge for the very existential structures of liberal democracy not because of an internal weakness, an antisemitic Cultural Marxism, but rather the means in which liberal democracy has extended itself infinitely through the phantom of capitalism and how this in turn creates a space for the phantasmic relations of Communist contemporaneity.

In order to reach through the contemporary and understand the transition implied by postmodernism, postmodernity, one must effectively act in a fashion that effectively takes the Marxist character of many postmodern inspirations, the Hauntology of dialectics and oppositions, and find a means through which these disparities, deconstructive possibilities, differentiations of Being can be understood in reference to the physical, to the worldly, to a notion of the world as-such, a practice often made difficult specifically by the means in which a vulgar sort of materialism is opposed to even the suggestion of postmodern inquiry. That the apparently-individual act of postmodernist scholarship is, in fact, genealogically linked to so many radical Marxist means of thinking, of thought-becoming as a process, and moreover how the eventual abandonment of Marxism-qua-Marxism by many apparent postmodernists or poststructuralists implies a kind of hopelessness in one or another is in fact part of the realization of a certain kind of dissolving, the sort that Deleuze describes as transcendental empiricism, a means of appropriating the concepts of empirical experience and mapping them onto a transcendent and phantasmic frame of reference, one in which the phantasmic is not lesser, secondary, but in fact constitutive of the empirical. Just as the Derridean text constructs itself, the text is a means of reckoning that requires an analysis of relationships within the text but additionally ones implied by it, ones that are contained in the relationships of language expressed within, eventually the subjectivity of the text begins to reveal itself. This would appear to be the creation of the individual, the demarcation thereof, but this is a false creation of the individual through yet another act of exegesis intended to codify the text as an object not in the process of deconstruction, but a sort of performative examination of it far more akin to dissection or butchering.

First, in order to address the deconstruction of the individual’s place in the social, the individual must be named, and further contrasted with the materialism apparently absent from such acts of naming. Popular concepts of the divide between individual existence, experience, and the material, the apparent apotheosis of the individual, are structured by a certain kind of capitalist constructivism whereby the individual is commodified and created as such, the individual is extruded from a machine that it recognizes as itself, and yet as that which gives it structure, stability, origin, the sort of Oedipal orifice-machine that Deleuze and Guattari spend so much time discussing. Looking to the Deleuzean framework of transcendental empiricism is vitally important specifically because such analysis is refused by the productive impetus, is separated either into the experiential or the referential, is considered as ruler or as body, tape measure or height. It is through a relativity, a relationship to the empirical by the transcendent and ever-changing material sphere, the means in which deterritorialization and reterritorialization continually undo one another in order to transfigure the very means by which judgments are made is thus part of a larger structure, one that is realized through the shifting and thus transcendent framework of this empiricism. The apparently-static material is overcoded by the phantasmic determination of it: in Difference and Repetition this is described as a basic act of differentiation by Deleuze, one that ignores entirely the physical in favor of the phantasmic. Thus, the material is not material-qua-material insofar as it is matter, as it is substance or form (Platonic or not) but rather is material-qua-material in that the experience thereof is one of materialist encounter, is part of an assemblage of bodies shaping one another through the structuring of ever-changing intensities such that the bodies at hand merge, meld, slide into one another as they lose their differentiated qualia.

Transcendental empiricism can inform the construction of materialism in a unique fashion specifically because it requires the empiricism that Deleuze talks of, the implicit ontic frame that is rendered within Anti-Oedipus. Reading critique in an Augustinian sense is an act that is not possible if one is acting outside of the bounds of Christ, there cannot be an Augustine before Christianity. Of course, we find the pre-Christian Augustine in his Confessions but this is not in fact the Augustine that the narrative supposes: it is one that has undergone the vital autobiographical act, the creation of self-awareness. This self-awareness is eventually realizable within the works of Derrida, a note I will return to. However, this is part of the kind of understanding that one finds in a structure such as the indeterminacy of the Derridean hunt, the escaping beast that must be tracked that is continually pointed at just out of site, disappearing through the bushes. There is a vital way in which this cannot go on forever, that this must eventually find a final conclusion where the hunt is either completed by kill, or by fatigue. The deconstructive opposition is just that, a means of looking at structure as a conduit of Foucauldian power, of language as transference which shifts the empirical specifically through an operation of the transcendent. When Deleuze and Guattari describe the nightmare of capitalism, the infinite expanse thereof, the implication is specifically that of capitalism as so vastly totalizing, hegemonic, as creating relationships that can only be realized in exchanges of labor, of traumatic violence, of encountering an Oedipal concept of the expected-other, the mirrorings of molecular becomings creating assumed-selves within every interaction.

Derridean analysis is likely the best means through which we may describe this process simply because of the proliferation of supposed Derridean concepts in Western contemporary thought. Numerous concepts have been described, rejected, and then codified-in-rejection by Derrida that have been renewed, or even yet again rejected, in contemporaneity. Fukuyama has admitted his End of History to be inadequate, and yet we are still past History’s end. Codification is a sort of death-realization, the end of an idea like that of History coming into Being. The ubiquity of Fukuyama’s declaration far outstrips any later rejection of it by the author himself, in that the notion has been so deeply sublimated, as the sort of Derridean shame that one feels naked in front of one’s cat, but now naked in front of one’s own crimes: the violence of liberal-democratic rule is inseparable from its character as a mitigation of class violence, its extension of settler-colonial and neocolonial violences, the ways in which it provides the means through which the naked Being is unconscionable specifically because the empirical structuring at hand implied so heavily otherwise, was embedded within such a long series of reterritorializing shifts that it eventually outdid itself. In this fashion, there is something other than being-qua-being, there is a Being that transcends any being-qua-being in the material-empirical senses.

For a further discussion of Being, we can turn to Being and Event as a framework for eking out the beast of Being. Badiou’s methodology is just that: a method, a sort of grasping at similitude with the supposed analytic, the creation of a means-of-thought that he may ascribe to himself. The vanity of such an act is nothing less than impressive, frankly, and must be recognized in this sense, fully, as just that, a rather incredible philosophical achievement. But his being-qua-being relies on his own work in a manner that does not weaken it, but worse, acts to codify it. Again, codification is the collapsing of opposition, the containment of both a concept and its dialectic opposite within a static position that cannot be revised, that must be accepted in order to discuss it. In Being and Event, Badiou’s project is setting out certain conditions under which the logical may be undertaken, such that the qualia of the “one” out of the “many” and the “many” out of the “one” can become intelligible. This is a hefty task simply because it involves a rather lengthy development of a certain logical epistemology of Badiou’s part, in that each step must conclusively prove the next, each must flow through the logical machines at hand, there must be a sort of fluctuation of the one-and-many that is at once reflective of a Heisenberg of sorts, the supposed-scientific from which so much of Badiou’s work originates. The way in which this structures this overall approach, the way that his work originates in the structure of the logical in reaching toward other discussions such as Metapolitics or declarations that “truth” is in fact a rather specific sort of fiction is part of this development of what structures of encounter form the designations that are held so dear to the post-postmodern West.

Baudrillard’s brave declaration, alluded to in the title of the article, that the Gulf War did not happen, is not the sort of statement that the initial reception often leads to. Of course the Gulf War happened, what does a Frenchman say to the victims of an American bombing campaign intended to consolidate American hegemony and that eventually structured the later occupation of Iraq following what Baudrillard describes as the “suicide” of the Twin Towers? These are in so many ways misunderstood specifically because their content relies on not the literal (or even approximate) truth of an event, but rather on the hyperreal, the event-of-the-event, the way in which the event becomes itself, the character it takes on. 9/11 is not merely a terrorist attack, it is the beginning of a new paradigm in American globalization, it is a global demarcation of the sort not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union or the end of WWII, a kind of moment of moments that results in a profound realization of structurality and potential-structurality as embedded in the events at hand. Neoliberal desire, as Baudrillard describes, begged for an attack like that on 9/11, a means of turning the openly imperial character of American acts of balkanization, anticommunist occupation, the means by which any “good” realized following these American actions is in fact not secondary, but nonexistent, part of an act of reclamation that Badiou describes as occurring even after the exit of the United States from Vietnam. The martyrdom of 9/11, the way in which the towers were faced with trauma beyond their capabilities and turned to suicide, was thus a capitulation which would allow not an approach akin to Somalia, or Beirut, or the USS Cole. It would allow for a Forever War. The Gulf War, a decade earlier, never occured. This is specifically because there was no war, there was no meaningful conflict, the heaviest casualties were inflicted on elite units hunting ever-shifting SCUD missiles to provide a solution to tensions between Israel (who wanted to strike the SCUDs remotely) and Saudi Arabia (who rejected such a plan). Otherwise, it was a remarkably unremarkable war, one characterized by the development of journalism developed during Vietnam into a new way of engaging with war, the spectacle of war, the ideation of war as a sort of fantasy, an abstraction, not merely described by the intensities that Massumi’s discussion of soccer can imply about American Football, but a spectacle of the exact same character.

These are exercises in production, in producing certain sorts of images, which is the final emphasis I wish to make. Haider’s discussion of Foucault is one that succeeds where so many others fail, in that radical Foucauldian epistemologies are founded not out of an act of discarding the acts of all possible knowledges, but rather the creation of a space in which the actions of creating knowledge are dictated by the productive forces of power, of certain structures through which experience is dictated, is part of Foucauldian structures of analysis which are specifically founded in what Badiou calls an anti-historicism, a certain kind of anti-philosophy which rejects the structures of power in order to expose their naked productive role, and thus analyze the transfiguration of power acting upon the encountering of knowledge. One of the consummate postmodernists, the most famous of the poststructuralists, the singular structuralist holdout at the end of the movement, Foucault was not quite any according to Haider. Rather, it is part of deliberately and intentionally foreclosing on Foucauldian analysis using the space of the asylum he so deftly describes, the means through which the pathological is matched to. the material is thus the psychological is thus the empirical is thus the ideological is thus that which may be eventually repeated within Western civilization as its core concept of self, a secular spirit of Western dominance that has dictated globalization a century over.

When asking what postmodernism after postmodernism must look like, this is perhaps a good moment to begin at. To look at the critiques of postmodernism that have been offered by those opposing it for the sake of itself, for the posturing it supposedly presents, as part of looking to a materialism that takes the material as itself, that denies any sort of possible transcendence let alone engages with the transformative effect thereof, is vital to fascist ideology.

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