We Are All Willing On The Catastrophe

luka

luka

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I think it allows people to express their frustrations (very often with me, let's face it) without needing to get into a head on confrontation.
 
luka

luka

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What's your thesis about droid? I was going to ask you yesterday what you studied at university actually
 
luka

luka

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It was more fun when you could still see which members had viewed the thread cos it made it easier to guess who wrote which tags
 
droid

droid

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"Eschatology and climate change - The psychology, history and social origins of apocalyptic thinking and its relation to ecological crisis"
 
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sadmanbarty

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john eden said:
I don't really mind them but it's a weird way of participating on the thread and I dunno why people revel in the opportunity to have a pop anonymously when it's all pseuodonyms on here anyway.
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i think i'm really bad at navigating this stuff. i very much overestimate how chummy written language can come across. i've definitely done tags about people in the past assuming it's all fine. maybe they're coming across as a lot more venomous than i've intended.

i remember datwun was upset with the tags on the deep tech thread (which was well before my time) and i was surprised.

this applies to posts as well i suppose.
 
john eden

john eden

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sadmanbarty said:
i think i'm really bad at navigating this stuff. i very much overestimate how chummy written language can come across. i've definitely done tags about people in the past assuming it's all fine. maybe they're coming across as a lot more venomous than i've intended.

i remember datwun was upset with the tags on the deep tech thread (which was well before my time) and i was surprised.

this applies to posts as well i suppose.
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Yeah I get that and I think they can come across as weirdly stalkerish in some situations - potentially it could be some weirdo who has never posted on Dissensus who has taken a dislike to someone. Probably it isn't but we'll never know. I'd assumed it was mainly the usual faces like you, Luka, Tea etc but there's no way of knowing.

It's funny that tags are used for something completely different from their original "cataloguing" intention though.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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I've added one tag in this thread, I think. And it was a direct quote from a post.

"j.g. well 'ard" is great, hats off to whoever did that one.
 
luka

luka

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How do you k ow he doesn't? He's a master of being undetected. (Except the times the police nicked him)
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Also wrt greens 'wanting to be right', as its been brought up previously. Dunno how closely you follow things but there is a major problem in climate science and activism with depression, burnout, suicide etc. That's not ideological desire at work.
Also, they are right.
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Well yeah, that must make it particularly irritating to be dismissed by the Trumps of this world. Surely many of them would love to hear Sarah Palin or Trump or whatever saying "Oh my God, the greens were right all along" even if it was seconds before the entire human race was wiped from the planet.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
I don't really mind them but it's a weird way of participating on the thread and I dunno why people revel in the opportunity to have a pop anonymously when it's all pseuodonyms on here anyway.
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Yeah but too many of us have met in real life for that to mean anything now.
 
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version

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I do loads of tags but the only one on here actually mentioning someone is a direct quote from Vim saying "fucking hell corpsey" which was tongue in cheek. All the others are just silly ones: ahab, atrocity, blood for the blood god, desecrating the pink temple, dissensus death cult, haranguing, hard reset, it's all coming down, j.g. well 'ard, revolutionary suicide, stormchasing and terminal orgasm.
 
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mvuent

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sadmanbarty said:
i very much overestimate how chummy written language can come across.
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lol yeah, same.


I've noticed that a decent amount of art that addresses global warming in an ostensibly serious, intellectual manner seems to use it as an excuse to imagine a fantasy world. thinking in particular of a VR thing I saw at the local "cool" art museum a few months ago. james ferraro and daniel lopatin's recent stuff exemplifies that as well. it doesn't make a lot of sense to say that by making this stuff, you're fighting against global warming. more like making it look cool.
 
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version

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mvuent said:
lol yeah, same.


I've noticed that a decent amount of art that addresses global warming in an ostensibly serious, intellectual manner seems to use it as an excuse to imagine a fantasy world. thinking in particular of a VR thing I saw at the local "cool" art museum a few months ago. james ferraro and daniel lopatin's recent stuff exemplifies that as well. it doesn't make a lot of sense to say that by making this stuff, you're fighting against global warming. more like making it look cool.
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I think that's a line you end up walking if you're making any sort of art as you're also trying to make something engaging and seductive which draws people in. There's also the risk of completely severing the subject from any sort of context and consequence and simply viewing it as an aesthetic, something I probably just did in the thread on The Surface with the photo of the wrecked car.
 
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