THE PRESTIGE (2006)

[sus]

I did. Look how stressed you get if I don't 'Haha' your posts.

Ive never been so wrecked in the history of the forum. This is the ultimate. I've never been so publicly humiliated

 

[sus]

Version is brutal!! He is a tyrant!

 

[sus]

All the warnings were true and I didnt heed them I thought it was just banter

 

[luka]

he doesnt work like a father with stern command. he knows more subtle womanly arts of manipulation and enforcing his will. very subtle, like a serpent.

 

[Ian Scuffling]

What chapter of Birth of Tragedy should I read

Been so long since I read it, though I recall he sketches it out fairly succinctly in the intro

 

[linebaugh]

The fire emote reads as sarcastic to me. Not at all similar to the haha which is a pure beam of radiant light

 

[sus]

I never treat the fire emoji ironically, that is a shocking statement to hear. All this time I thought I was getting gassed up. But in fact I was being deflated.

 

[version]

I use it both sincerely and ironically.

 

[linebaugh]

I use it both sincerely and ironically.

 

[other_life]

other life did you see this one?

distribution points

There's an idea taking shape in my head that says there is music that traces the entire arc of a movement in real continuous time, and other that works as a series of jump cuts, so that there are sections of the tape missing, you find yourself leaping from point A to B without having been lead...

www.dissensus.com

sorry i started reading this on the bus (i do remember this thread, yes) and was actually going to reply to it but i got home and was like "hm. i don't think i will put away my laundry like i keep putting off.. i think i will finish a tune"
kind of been a problem this month

 

[sus]

I use it both sincerely and ironically.

So you can never tell which! "Brilliant!"

 

[other_life]

you can make something very pretty, but what poetry really is for is to initiate a person into that relationship with life, and to learn things, and to make contact with larger forces, and to start to get a tiny inkling of what might be going on.

can i ask you to indulge me with a close read of a sort of long one i wrote. i think it's Thematically appropriate/within this particular Meta

 

[version]

So you can never tell which! "Brilliant!"

I think it's pretty obvious. It's sincere if someone posts something good and ironic if it's something that's obviously bad or ridiculous, like that clip of Connor McGregor suffering involuntary spasms due to drug use.

 

[sus]

How we detect one another
how we find that signal
in the storm.
that once established allows communication as between
equals at the table.
you've found us / you've made it
home.

The expectation of coming aboard the mother-ship – of finding not just one’s own world recapitulated but maybe even having its unknown periphery instantly resonate with others-– shuts down the capacity for shutting down, leaves open a chance for disorientation to set-in.

 

[Ian Scuffling]

new americans.. how libidinal

We are very libidinal. Actually I would say I met version indirectly because of my wildly misdirected libido

 

[sus]

that's mvuent in his homemade sugar-glider. i hope he can heal and get back in the big sky.

@mvuent

 

[sus]

Mvuent is a lucky guy. When he returns to the forum, his name has enough characters to be searchable, so he can see what everyone said about him while he was gone

 

[luka]

he wont enjoy seeing what version has been saying about him

 

[mvuent]

I read this post as basically a sparknotes of The Birth of Tragedy, but it might help a zoomer who's never even heard of Nietzsche come to an understanding of the concept. And it's ridiculous to act as if this flattening isn't the basic practice and ideal form of criticism. If everyone on substack and medium were writing like this I'd chalk that up as a net positive.

nietzsche, eh? i've read that site a few times and usually it's more like watered down simon reynolds/kodwo eshun/luke davis so that's interesting

 

[Ian Scuffling]

I'm not familiar with any of those writers, I'm sure I'd agree with you if I were