i FINALLY understand that the key to teaching writing is that you just have to report back to the student whether you understand what they are saying
pHiycrtyl
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pHiycrtyl
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rt ≠ endorsement, rt = jouissance, same on other platforms
Joined November 2011
- in this era of economic stagnation, everyone's advice boils down to: you just need to get extremely lucky in a way that is no longer possible
- Replying to @SanNuvolawhy are circular shaped buildings all circular???
- damn now that is a painting by a person who has experienced psychosis
- ChatGPT is a gift to writing pedagogy: its perfect imitation of the 5-paragraph high school essay reveals the complete worthlessness & intellectual vacuity of this inane, disciplinary ritual exercise.
- hot take: this is the best narrative film of the 21st century
- let's be real: generations don't exist. it's fun to be like, "millennials are like this, but gen z is like that!", but the reality is that what we misrecognize as generations are cohorts of workers.
- this strikes me as actually a pretty significant observation that should upend a lot of pseud media theoryI don’t think it’s mentioned nearly enough that Zohran, who was spectacularly successful among young voters, never used memes in his social media posts.
- no matter how many times i read this passage from adorno, every time i audibly gasp
- it's pretty funny how 12 years of education at a couple of the world's most elite institutions of higher learning has left me completely proletarianized and unemployable
- art has to be deprofessionalized. basically everyone does a bunch of really creative shit when they're young, witnessed primarily by those immediately around them, & then has their time & willingness to continue doing exterminated by economic cruelty. meanwhile, a select few...
- a student walked out of my class when i explained that Bertolt Brecht was a communist
- when i tell people i need help finding work, the look of terror and disgust that comes into their eyes
- the poverty of daily life in the united states is insane. the food here, i mean the ordinary food that constitutes the diet of most ordinary people, is so bad.a friend from a village in Sicily told me after touring the US South for the first time, “America is a poor country, you just don’t realize it.” she was remarking not only on widespread poverty, but that even those who were well off had nothing but abundant cheap shit, not wealth
