tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930332230422343009.post9015341189046250354..comments2023-07-08T23:44:17.846+10:00Comments on The Active Scrawler: Comprehension test (a challenge if ever there was one)Rosalie Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313772327807362533noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930332230422343009.post-81043171953959111802012-02-26T13:06:38.356+11:002012-02-26T13:06:38.356+11:00Self absorbed verbosity is it. Too caught up in be...Self absorbed verbosity is it. Too caught up in being smart to actually be smart is how I see it.Rosalie Fitzpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313772327807362533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930332230422343009.post-59871741938010899052012-02-26T13:06:02.294+11:002012-02-26T13:06:02.294+11:00Previous conversation:
• Simon Miller Total jargo...Previous conversation:<br /><br />• Simon Miller Total jargon. Remind me of the classic reviews over at anus.com...<br /><br />http://www.anus.com/metal/asphyx/<br /> <br />Asphyx - Death Metal<br />www.anus.com<br />death metal band Asphyx<br />50 minutes ago · Like · <br />Michael Van Ryan Is it bad that I can make sense of those? I'm struggling to re-write the first one in less than twice the words, though.<br />49 minutes ago · Like<br />Michael Van Ryan When I say make sense, I mean extract some degree of meaning. Isolating particular segments is.. difficult.<br />45 minutes ago · Unlike · 1<br />Michael Van Ryan Part of the problem with the first one is the pre-contextual understanding of structuralism and Louis Altherusser's ideas.<br />43 minutes ago · Like<br />Simon Miller My cat's breath smells like cats food.<br />43 minutes ago · Unlike · 2<br />Rosalie Fitzpatrick That's what I can do. If I read a section under ten words I can, on average, understand where it is leading. Then the words pile up, the clauses shift the understood meaning and the phrases that are added in make it a jumbled mess. Top it off with not feeling too healthy right now and you get "aarrgh!" from me. :)<br />35 minutes ago · Like<br />Rosalie Fitzpatrick And those reviews Simon, I can read them. A little garbled and wannabe highbrow but understandable.<br />33 minutes ago · Like<br />Simon Miller My cat's name is mittens.<br />32 minutes ago · Like · 1Rosalie Fitzpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313772327807362533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930332230422343009.post-23889148768580493822012-02-26T12:24:54.491+11:002012-02-26T12:24:54.491+11:00(The move from a structuralist account in which ca...(The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relationships in relatively homologous ways)<br /><br /><br />(to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation)<br /><br /><br /><br />(brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects)<br /><br />(to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”)<br /><br />Breaking it up helps. <br />However, the self-absorbed verbosity is just ridiculous. :PVannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930332230422343009.post-41695016908140483442012-02-26T12:19:28.580+11:002012-02-26T12:19:28.580+11:00Excuse me but my brain has just melted.Excuse me but my brain has just melted.Explosive Actionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07443543631273036178noreply@blogger.com