Criticism, by its very nature, is about good/bad verdicts btw
is this for real
― Euler, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:01 (fourteen years ago)
hahaha aerosmith plz start that twitter
― iatee, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:02 (fourteen years ago)
The verdict is always there, though. Something has to drive the analysis otherwise you are looking at aimless, directionless meandering with no thesis.
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:02 (fourteen years ago)
I dunno; I read the NY Review of Books & I'm not looking for a "good/bad verdict", I'm looking to learn what the book's like; what're its topics, its way of doing what it does (I'm thinking most of nonfiction but the same's mostly true for fiction too). I'll decide "good/bad" on my own.
― Euler, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:04 (fourteen years ago)
v. tempted
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:05 (fourteen years ago)
or not, actually; I rarely read the full books being reviewed there; I just like reading the crit tbh
xp
btw Bandwagonesque 4eva (to keep w/ the thread's topic)
― Euler, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:05 (fourteen years ago)
it's possible to have a thesis besides "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" iirc
― some dude, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:05 (fourteen years ago)
post one and I will show you how it can be reduced to "thumbs up"/"thumbs down"
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:08 (fourteen years ago)
Something has to drive the analysis otherwise you are looking at aimless, directionless meandering with no thesis.
lol I am saying this in a friendly way so don't take it wrong but a critical theory class would drive you completely bonkers. the whole point of critical theory is to table verdicts in favor of competing truth-claims & seeing how they work together, what the assumptions that go into them are, etc. what drives the analysis is sort of quasi-scientific: an interest in the workings of things, which are assumed/shown to be very complicated and capable of sustaining multiple readings. However, it is also the case that reading this stuff one picks & prods to figure out whether the author (sorry, "author") is harboring some verdict to which he/she doesn't cop
I had more to say here but I could actually hear the sound of you scratching at your eyeballs to make it stop + it made me feel bad
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:09 (fourteen years ago)
lol
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:12 (fourteen years ago)
Agreed re Twitter request.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:12 (fourteen years ago)
Aerosmith OTM here. I was going to say, DJP, nobody is saying that criticism doesn't often reduce to a good/bad verdict, what they (and I) say is that it doesn't have to be that way, and there are numerous field where in fact the good/bad duality is almost non-existent.
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:12 (fourteen years ago)
*fields
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:13 (fourteen years ago)
whenever someone claims a "reduction" or that X "reduces" to Y, I'm suspicious & recommend the same.
― Euler, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:14 (fourteen years ago)
I can attest that writing reviews is more fun than student discussions in lit theory courses.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:15 (fourteen years ago)
setting the bar high there
― pandemic, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:16 (fourteen years ago)
I feel it's fair to remind the thread here that Euler "does" philosophy and is required by the terms of his contract to suspect all claims of reduction
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:17 (fourteen years ago)
I studied computer science; reduction is the foundation of everything.
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:19 (fourteen years ago)
that seems a rather reductive claim to me - Euler, back me up here
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:20 (fourteen years ago)
i agree w aero too
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:13 (fourteen years ago)
i wouldnt have said anything except that rarely happens
how many box sets of his tweet reviews did Whiney sell, besides the one to Markers?
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Friday, 13 January 2012 01:30 (fourteen years ago)
iirc he sold all of them
― lost ai weiwei (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 January 2012 01:41 (fourteen years ago)
proof that print media can be saved by tweviews, then
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:04 (fourteen years ago)
fuck, I missed the alley oop due to spending half the day driving across Midwestern tundra
Good grief it's cold, I have been reduced to shivers
― Euler, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:47 (fourteen years ago)
important h1pster puppy info within: http://blog.omusicawards.com/2012/01/spin-reviews/
― David Blohard (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:02 (fourteen years ago)
way to work around my "no mentions of h1pster puppies" filter that I spent hours coding
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:11 (fourteen years ago)
dudes, whiney deserves a raise, people on my facebook talking about spin! in 2012!
― scott seward, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:33 (fourteen years ago)
antipodean counterclockwise unSpinning out the drain
― Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:48 (fourteen years ago)
whiney can u post your handbook on how to write twitter reviews?
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:54 (fourteen years ago)
1. find some music that you hate
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:58 (fourteen years ago)
2. cut a hole in the box
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:00 (fourteen years ago)
lol this is exactly the sort of thread direction that our whiney haaaaaaaates
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:00 (fourteen years ago)
3. three three for my heartache
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:01 (fourteen years ago)
4. I can give you more
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)
5. #neversellnocrackwhereyourestat
― Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:15 (fourteen years ago)
i hope to see a "thom yorkie" joke in this new column
― pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:17 (fourteen years ago)
and all english bands albums done in a mockney style mentioning blood sausage
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:21 (fourteen years ago)
Oh right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Sausage_%28band%29
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:25 (fourteen years ago)
whiney's theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfm6ZkDeltM
― scott seward, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:32 (fourteen years ago)
its whiney's world, the rest of us just live in it!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/01/13/145107490/are-140-character-reviews-the-future-of-music-criticism
― scott seward, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:46 (fourteen years ago)
good call to drop the reviewer name and score hashtags, that shit was superfluous/ugly
― Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:52 (fourteen years ago)
Ann's thing is so good
― David Blohard (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:08 (fourteen years ago)
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/1351/pokinsperpetuate1.jpg
― am0n, Friday, 13 January 2012 19:32 (fourteen years ago)
perpetual lolz
― pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Friday, 13 January 2012 19:38 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/IOOFN.png
― pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:26 (fourteen years ago)
hey weingarten, somebody told me to tell you, you're killing it, bro
― some dude, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:26 (fourteen years ago)
knowledge, i mean
― some dude, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:27 (fourteen years ago)
Yes, an old high-school friend posted the news on my Wall yesterday!
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:28 (fourteen years ago)
six months from now: whiney instates a new "full issue reviews only" policy
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:30 (fourteen years ago)