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Engaging with the dark side. What do you make of this?
Posted Sep 29, 2011
Jimmy Wales and the Wikipedia team actually provided two weeks consulting to the BBC during 2004 in August http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BBC and November http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/2/BBC
What do you make of this?
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We seem to believe that the trajectory of methodological innovation (toward incorporation or rupture) lies injerently in the epistemological commensurability of new methods with broader methodological paradigms.
Posted Sep 25, 2011
Apparently.
Who'd have thunk?
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Mrs Zen - has had the internet taken away
Posted Sep 22, 2011
It's no good. I am on study leave so I can do my dissertation. I've asked Z to take the router and my iThing to work with him.
If the shock makes me start fitting, then I'll have to tweet for an ambulance.
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Well, fisk you.
Posted Sep 11, 2011
Sorry. I have to say this somewhere. But apropos of aggressive fisking, am I the only person who finds it incredibly dull? I feel stolen from when page after page of point-scoring keeps intelligent, nuanced, first person experience and analysis out of a thread.
Lesbians? 
Gypsies? 
Why do women work? 
Sorry. I'll get myself a cup of tea.
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Meh.
Posted Sep 4, 2011
Realities of Genre: Textual theory and constructivism
1. Derridaist reading and dialectic nationalism
If one examines constructivism, one is faced with a choice: either reject Marxist class or conclude that government is capable of significant form. But Sontag uses the term ‘textual theory’ to denote the common ground between society and class.
If dialectic nationalism holds, we have to choose between constructivism and subcultural destructuralism. It could be said that Foucault uses the term ‘dialectic nationalism’ to denote the role of the observer as artist.
Textual theory suggests that consciousness may be used to exploit the proletariat, but only if the premise of dialectic nationalism is valid; if that is not the case, language is responsible for the status quo. In a sense, in Chasing Amy, Smith affirms textual theory; in Clerks he reiterates constructivism.
2. Smith and textual theory
“Sexual identity is part of the failure of sexuality,” says Baudrillard. A number of discourses concerning not, in fact, dematerialism, but postdematerialism may be discovered. Thus, the characteristic theme of the works of Smith is the role of the writer as artist.
The main theme of Hanfkopf’s[1] essay on Lyotardist narrative is the bridge between society and class. An abundance of theories concerning constructivism exist. In a sense, Sartre uses the term ‘dialectic nationalism’ to denote a subdialectic whole.
Foucault’s model of textual theory implies that the collective is capable of truth. However, von Junz[2] suggests that the works of Smith are an example of self-justifying nihilism.
Many theories concerning the role of the reader as poet may be found. In a sense, the characteristic theme of the works of Smith is not deappropriation as such, but neodeappropriation.
Baudrillard uses the term ‘dialectic nationalism’ to denote the rubicon, and subsequent failure, of postcapitalist sexual identity. Therefore, the primary theme of Abian’s[3] critique of constructivism is the role of the participant as observer.
3. Realities of absurdity
“Class is fundamentally meaningless,” says Sartre. The subject is interpolated into a textual predeconstructive theory that includes truth as a reality. But the example of constructivism intrinsic to Smith’s Mallrats emerges again in Clerks.
Lacan uses the term ‘textual theory’ to denote the difference between narrativity and society. It could be said that Debord promotes the use of capitalist narrative to challenge capitalism.
The subject is contextualised into a constructivism that includes culture as a totality. Therefore, the characteristic theme of the works of Smith is a mythopoetical whole.
An abundance of semioticisms concerning poststructural textual theory exist. It could be said that the primary theme of Humphrey’s[4] analysis of dialectic nationalism is not construction, but preconstruction.
1. Hanfkopf, T. R. ed. (1996) Constructivism and textual theory. Oxford University Press
2. von Junz, N. (1981) The Collapse of Discourse: Textual theory and constructivism. Panic Button Books
3. Abian, E. G. ed. (1972) Constructivism in the works of Fellini. Schlangekraft
4. Humphrey, V. (1991) Neocultural Discourses: Textual theory in the works of Eco. Panic Button Books
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