by Cowboy » Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:26 pm
sorry deadkitty is right I'm just dumb
but to be honest it feels like academic criticism and theory has been captured in its own language not for the sake of clarifying concepts and identifying them but to prove that the person at hand is up to date with all the hot hip words.
Affect/Intensity could just as easily been called emotion really, and giving the statement "Affect" without any context presupposes the reader at hand understands what has become a rapidly popular statement in the overarching field. This means that the only way to understand is to be part of this institutional education, which I think can take a lot away, seeing as the hopes to change the world through study find themselves in the masses being able to actually understand what study proposes. It's also not even remotely accessible to populations subordinate to the institutions we so readily criticize.
Study here just stands for theory/institutional criticism
So when I say jargon it isn't that it's a nonsense abstraction (which I'm not entirely against being true) but that the portrayal makes it so that to anyone who reads this shit it goes way over their head if they aren't familiar, thus making it nonsense to the common reader. Let's not act like anywhere near a sizeable bit of the population has the remotest of ideas of who Foucault/Agamben are and can even go so far as to discuss what they say RE: barelife.
when you say that digesting information, specifically philosophical education, is akin to digesting capital I honestly have to laugh. That's ridiculously self serving. IDK how much depth I'd have to go in to explain why chomsky isn't actually totally wrong here.
When you have the option to discuss something in a small, casual forum, and you coat it in a esoteric vocabulary, I struggle to believe you actually care to discuss with the forum at large rather than just prove to the other people who understand it that you can keep up/know ur stuff.
Maybe I'm just a reductionist and anything outside of these terms can't actually capture their essence
(like emotion can't capture affect), But i say at least give a bit of a nod to the persons who don't have the background you do. It's a fine line I guess but *shrug*
I initially only put the first line cuz I was being sassy and deadkitty is annoying but I tried to engage with the rest
Also I don't think caretags threads are the places to hit the deep end of the philosophical pool, and I'm sure it's best if we just keep things to film as they're meant to be. Feel free to pm me if you want to discuss this further, but I'm not posting here with this tangent further
Also none of this is meant to be personal! You're obviously immensely intelligent and capable, and I'm sure at the end of the day this is me just saying "hey don't be so smart" haha