[HN Gopher] A Theory of Vibe (2017)
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A Theory of Vibe (2017)
Author : autophagian
Score : 9 points
Date : 2023-03-29 08:37 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| motohagiography wrote:
| I'd be really interested in what their editor sent back for
| corrections and clarifications, and then settled on this from it.
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| This was how a whole bunch of cultural studies people actually
| talked at the turn of the millenium. I had some exposure to stuff
| like this in an experimental education program back in high
| school, and I think that exposure innoculated me against it.
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| It reminds me a bit of the plot of Snowcrash, where someone
| discovers a linguistic structure based on ancient texts that
| effectively reframes and overwrites your understanding and
| beliefs about the world, then a cult leader who lives on an
| aircraft carrier uses it to inject their minds with a virus that
| turns people into "zombies."
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| The basic structure of this text is similar, where it does
| callouts to concepts and metaphors that the reader can't reason
| competently about (like Kolmolgorov complexity), and by stacking
| these unresolved ideas as open loops in the readers mind, it
| creates a kind of mesmerized submission. If you force a student
| to sit and read this stuff, they will believe whatever you
| conclude with that relieves the exhausting dissonance they need
| to sustain to get through it all. Articles like this are the mind
| virus, imo.
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| Humor is the only antidote, and perhaps our only hope.
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| Is it unlike schizoposting or apophatic[near paradoxical]
| religious literature?
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