i do get way too touchy about 'anyone can fake litcrit' i guess
probably it's true to a point, you can feign understanding of it probably more easily than you can something more mathy, especially if the person you're talking to also doesn't really understand the material, or is at least self-conscious about there being stuff they don't know
thing is you're actually encouraged to look at things more than one way and see if the result is interesting, so even if someone's BSing, it's not totally implausible they'll accidentally say something of interest
besides which *actually being good at lit* is not necessarily that difficult; is writing your own opinions "BSing" if your opinions are specifically what's being asked for? so there's no need to fake anything
even so i don't think you could sustain complete gibberish at length without being found out, because the words do have meanings and only seem opaque to onlookers due to unfamiliarity with the subject matter
when i first approached it i knew the meanings of some of the terms, and other aspects of the theory made sense when the lecturers explained them, so i was never really thinking "what if this is just gibberish", instead i figured if i didn't understand it it was because *i* didn't understand it
and the more i have subsequently learned about it the more convinced i am of that, even though unfortunately i didn't get to grips with it quickly enough to do very well on the theory 1 module
when i hear people talking about how easy it is and how nonsensical it is and how easy it is to fake it idk how i'm supposed to interpret that other than that i'm just an idiot
tbh that was partly why i started to take an interest in other academic subject matter, i mean, i've always been interested in science stuff to a point, but i wanted to prove, to myself mainly, that i'm not stupid, that i can handle this stuff same as anybody else
and i guess in the process i hoped i'd figure out whether it really is that i got my ass kicked by an easy subject that normal people can BS their way through, or whether the stuff that seemed hard to me really was hard and people don't know what they're talking about
i do get way too touchy about 'anyone can fake litcrit' i guess
probably it's true to a point, you can feign understanding of it probably more easily than you can something more mathy, especially if the person you're talking to also doesn't really understand the material, or is at least self-conscious about there being stuff they don't know
first i will say that i broadly agree with naneys post in the other thread about flexible/inflexible terminology but think of it this way: 'anyone can fake litcrit' you could read as 'anyone can do litcrit without putting in work/effort and by just winging it'. well it is also true that anyone can make art without.putting in effort just by winging it, but this is not seen as a bad thing by most. i think that if anyone can be a.critic then yknow, great! question then is why do we see things as fake litcrit? honestly reading the postmodernist essay generator stuff, yes it sounds like it could be a genuine essay, but it sounds like a bad and confusing one. so it follows that not everyone can fake litcrit well. and what is so bad about 'fake' litcrit anyway? maybe it didn't take the effort to make but duchamp's urinal didn't take much effort in and of itself to put in an art gallery either? and if it's good fake litcrit then how do we tell that it's fake anyway? is this whole post actually fake litcrit in disguise?
is this whole post actually fake litcrit in disguise?
does not contain repurposed Marxist, Freudian, linguistic or phenomenological jargon
contains only one instance of prefix "post-"
does not namedrop any Continental philosophers
so i doubt it, unless it's a very good disguise
but you're right and the analogy to art makes sense
naney brought up "natural aptitude" and maybe that's my problem
maybe i didn't have that, so i'm bitter that people who do have that aptitude but have no interest in litcrit can go "this is piss easy anyone can do it, whole subject is worthless"
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i do get way too touchy about 'anyone can fake litcrit' i guess
probably it's true to a point, you can feign understanding of it probably more easily than you can something more mathy, especially if the person you're talking to also doesn't really understand the material, or is at least self-conscious about there being stuff they don't know
thing is you're actually encouraged to look at things more than one way and see if the result is interesting, so even if someone's BSing, it's not totally implausible they'll accidentally say something of interest
besides which *actually being good at lit* is not necessarily that difficult; is writing your own opinions "BSing" if your opinions are specifically what's being asked for? so there's no need to fake anything
even so i don't think you could sustain complete gibberish at length without being found out, because the words do have meanings and only seem opaque to onlookers due to unfamiliarity with the subject matter
when i first approached it i knew the meanings of some of the terms, and other aspects of the theory made sense when the lecturers explained them, so i was never really thinking "what if this is just gibberish", instead i figured if i didn't understand it it was because *i* didn't understand it
and the more i have subsequently learned about it the more convinced i am of that, even though unfortunately i didn't get to grips with it quickly enough to do very well on the theory 1 module
when i hear people talking about how easy it is and how nonsensical it is and how easy it is to fake it idk how i'm supposed to interpret that other than that i'm just an idiot
tbh that was partly why i started to take an interest in other academic subject matter, i mean, i've always been interested in science stuff to a point, but i wanted to prove, to myself mainly, that i'm not stupid, that i can handle this stuff same as anybody else
and i guess in the process i hoped i'd figure out whether it really is that i got my ass kicked by an easy subject that normal people can BS their way through, or whether the stuff that seemed hard to me really was hard and people don't know what they're talking about
i should be over this by now but i'm really not
To clarify my post: I do not actually think litcrit itself is easy-peasy, or what-have-you. I've faked it until I made it to trudge through school, but that's different. But just due to terminology I've seen folks fake it more effectively than in other fields; but that doesn't equate to faking it well, as I'm seeing sunn said.
Goes without saying to me that it's all pretty valuable to me, etc.
Golems in modern fantasy are always so samey. It's always flesh golems, or blood golems, or the classical elements. Where are our candy, origami, or bomb golems? :<
A Playstation magazine once ran a contest to win a first generation AIBO. This contest involved acting as a dog for a day. This included being taken for walks, playing fetch, and eating dog food.
A Playstation magazine once ran a contest to win a first generation AIBO. This contest involved acting as a dog for a day. This included being taken for walks, playing fetch, and eating dog food.
A Playstation magazine once ran a contest to win a first generation AIBO. This contest involved acting as a dog for a day. This included being taken for walks, playing fetch, and eating dog food.
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I'm thinking there is no way this wasn't deliberate
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i do get way too touchy about 'anyone can fake litcrit' i guess
probably it's true to a point, you can feign understanding of it probably more easily than you can something more mathy, especially if the person you're talking to also doesn't really understand the material, or is at least self-conscious about there being stuff they don't know
thing is you're actually encouraged to look at things more than one way and see if the result is interesting, so even if someone's BSing, it's not totally implausible they'll accidentally say something of interest
besides which *actually being good at lit* is not necessarily that difficult; is writing your own opinions "BSing" if your opinions are specifically what's being asked for? so there's no need to fake anything
even so i don't think you could sustain complete gibberish at length without being found out, because the words do have meanings and only seem opaque to onlookers due to unfamiliarity with the subject matter
when i first approached it i knew the meanings of some of the terms, and other aspects of the theory made sense when the lecturers explained them, so i was never really thinking "what if this is just gibberish", instead i figured if i didn't understand it it was because *i* didn't understand it
and the more i have subsequently learned about it the more convinced i am of that, even though unfortunately i didn't get to grips with it quickly enough to do very well on the theory 1 module
when i hear people talking about how easy it is and how nonsensical it is and how easy it is to fake it idk how i'm supposed to interpret that other than that i'm just an idiot
tbh that was partly why i started to take an interest in other academic subject matter, i mean, i've always been interested in science stuff to a point, but i wanted to prove, to myself mainly, that i'm not stupid, that i can handle this stuff same as anybody else
and i guess in the process i hoped i'd figure out whether it really is that i got my ass kicked by an easy subject that normal people can BS their way through, or whether the stuff that seemed hard to me really was hard and people don't know what they're talking about
i should be over this by now but i'm really not
To clarify my post: I do not actually think litcrit itself is easy-peasy, or what-have-you. I've faked it until I made it to trudge through school, but that's different. But just due to terminology I've seen folks fake it more effectively than in other fields; but that doesn't equate to faking it well, as I'm seeing sunn said.
Goes without saying to me that it's all pretty valuable to me, etc.
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probably it's true to a point, you can feign understanding of it probably more easily than you can something more mathy, especially if the person you're talking to also doesn't really understand the material, or is at least self-conscious about there being stuff they don't know
thing is you're actually encouraged to look at things more than one way and see if the result is interesting, so even if someone's BSing, it's not totally implausible they'll accidentally say something of interest
besides which *actually being good at lit* is not necessarily that difficult; is writing your own opinions "BSing" if your opinions are specifically what's being asked for? so there's no need to fake anything
even so i don't think you could sustain complete gibberish at length without being found out, because the words do have meanings and only seem opaque to onlookers due to unfamiliarity with the subject matter
when i first approached it i knew the meanings of some of the terms, and other aspects of the theory made sense when the lecturers explained them, so i was never really thinking "what if this is just gibberish", instead i figured if i didn't understand it it was because *i* didn't understand it
and the more i have subsequently learned about it the more convinced i am of that, even though unfortunately i didn't get to grips with it quickly enough to do very well on the theory 1 module
when i hear people talking about how easy it is and how nonsensical it is and how easy it is to fake it idk how i'm supposed to interpret that other than that i'm just an idiot
tbh that was partly why i started to take an interest in other academic subject matter, i mean, i've always been interested in science stuff to a point, but i wanted to prove, to myself mainly, that i'm not stupid, that i can handle this stuff same as anybody else
and i guess in the process i hoped i'd figure out whether it really is that i got my ass kicked by an easy subject that normal people can BS their way through, or whether the stuff that seemed hard to me really was hard and people don't know what they're talking about
i should be over this by now but i'm really not
And no one can say shit.
so i doubt it, unless it's a very good disguise
but you're right and the analogy to art makes sense
naney brought up "natural aptitude" and maybe that's my problem
maybe i didn't have that, so i'm bitter that people who do have that aptitude but have no interest in litcrit can go "this is piss easy anyone can do it, whole subject is worthless"
since it was easier than everything else we had to learn, and my grades were good, and other people seemed to find things hard which i found easy
same ^_^;
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i literally dk
lol
fricken
microsoft keeps throwing up popups at me telling me to install it
i'm like NO but they won't stop