stegosaurus posted:

n64 is so good and how did that person not see the ugly gucci ft on the tape its so good???

gyrofry posted:

he can be good but he needs an editor

lol yea p much. whenever you see something i wrote posted elsewhere its generally safe to assume about 500 words of selfindulgent nonsense were mercifully cut from it

determine "the critical mass (tipping point)" of social contagians by studying their "digital traces" in the cases of "the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Russian Duma elections, the 2012 Nigerian fuel subsidy crisis and the 2013 Gazi park protests in Turkey."

Twitter posts and conversations will be examined "to identify individuals mobilised in a social contagion and when they become mobilised."

and

One war-game, said Price, involved environmental activists protesting pollution from a coal-fired plant near Missouri, some of whom were members of the well-known environmental NGO Sierra Club. Participants were tasked to "identify those who were 'problem-solvers' and those who were 'problem-causers,' and the rest of the population whom would be the target of the information operations to move their Center of Gravity toward that set of viewpoints and values which was the 'desired end-state' of the military's strategy."

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown

if the military is investing in social science to better understand how to manipulate ideology, something corporations are already doing to great effect on twitter and other social media, is it so paranoid to think some shit is getting funded in implicit ways to discredit the left?

now excuse me while i go follow the CIA's new twitter account.

Makeshift_Swahili posted:

i just got twitter, @EnterHoxha, adding ppl, donmt want to miss the next juicy pro-rape jacobin article or whatever.

add me, on Twitter, on my account just for here, if you find my other account, tell me and then i can block you. Thanks,

deadken posted:

elektrenai posted:

toy posted:

The Jacobin vs. Twitter outrage machine absurdity makes me want to throw up.

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2014/06/10/what-amber-alee-frost-actually-wrote/

im obsessed with this, the people defending Kendzior have gone absolutely insane

to be fair some of the people exposing her are now insisting that her accusations constitute an organised intelligence agency assault on the left to stop jacobin talking about imperialism & that anyone who doubts this self-evident truth is in on the conspiracy

"Most of all, though, our history is inscribed in the featureless blue plane on which the dog reclines. In fact, it’s swarming with tiny figures: child miners coughing dust, factory workers plunging from rooftops, women with acid scars bursting across their faces, people who wake up shaking from the bombs going off in their dreams, people who wake up shaking from the bombs going off in their ears. A society capable of producing that shade of blue leaves a lot of bodies in its wake."

deadken posted:

only the sinister machinations of the cia could provoke the radical left into tearing itself apart over nothing

babyfinland posted:

it sounds like perverts and losers

*stops, scrolls back up and clicks the link*

In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of culture. Similarly, they all suggest that a theory which depends on the interested action of social beings—specifically practice theory, associated especially with the work of Pierre Bourdieu—requires a more developed notion of human agency and a richer conception of human subjectivity. Ortner shows how social theory must both build upon and move beyond classic practice theory in order to understand the contemporary world.

there's a small part where she basically torpedoes subaltern school stuff in a manner very different than that of the recent indian marxists who've done the same- they use Marx, she uses Geertz. If I have time in the next few days i'm gonna write a semi-effort post on ortner's use of geertz, but adding some stuff written by crow's beloved Peter Dale Scott that draws some unpleasant conclusions about things that ortner has cited. the picture you get from putting the two together is pretty bleak, just a devastated landscape full of the charred bodies of humanities Ph.Ds

palafox posted:

you seem like you know more than me already, i didn't know that he had precedents. crow prolly knows way more than me, and I think discipline said she was reading something by him a while back? I've only read some of his poetry and several short things so far. don't know oglesby but i'll check him out once i'm done with the next couple things i'm reading.

that said, so far I love him. he fuckin murks geertz (and by association a large pile of academia), something i really wasn't expecting, and geertz is an author from whom i derive a lot of personal pleasure and usually end up believing in wholesale. he just sounds so reasonable and right all the time, what with the whole "pay attention to your subject matter for once" thing. After looking at PDS' thing on him I was sort of slackjawed and depressed, which was followed by me hitting up an anthropologist friend and going over the whole thing point by point to see what they thought, and then both of us sitting around sort of slackjawed and depressed

whenever i find myself agreeing with an author i get suspicious and restless