/lit/ - Literature

>>15159789
Well the guy on the left is clearly a real smartie, while the guy on the right is just a big stupid head.
Here's a reaction pic.

>>15159789
Jonah Goldberg is a neocon hack, wearing his Goucher College outfit (low ranked), washing the feet of Darren Beattie.

Beattie is a MAGA guy with a PhD in mathematics.

>>15159789
>he labelled the soap

What the actual fuck

>>15160106
Seriously why does he feel the need to label everything? Is he autistic?

>>15159789
i dont recognize a single name in that picture other than plato, nietzsche and nabakov
and garrison, if you count that

>>15159789
I cant find this on his site, is it real?

>>15160106
It represents soap

>>15160069
I object to being shoehorned into this political cartoon

>>15160129
Are you retarded? It's a hundreds year old political comic motiff.

>>15159789
>Darren J.Beattie
>Proud jew
Why is Ben Garrison such a retard?

>>15160097
>Beattie is a MAGA guy
Reading Spivak? Everything else I can sorta buy, but that feels weird.

>>15159789
Jonah Goldberg is a fucking hack. That’s what he meant by this.

>>15159789

Did Ben Garrison just do a Kelly Comic?

>>15160338
Haha, no anon.

>>15160097
Kolmogorov might very well be in the top 10 greatest mathematicians of all time and most people don't even know he existed. Sad.

>>15160321
As a white man, reading Spivak and Fanon me realise liberalism is false consciousness and set me down the road to MAGA as expression of the white man's liberation. few realise Trump actually is an anticolonial revolutionary, MAGA is a people's war of national liberation against globalism and the Q mythos is the ghost dance of the plains indians for american suburban boomers.

>>15160418
Who cares? The US is a ghost of a country at this point.

>>15159789
You could tell they're smart because the chess set, chess means you're an intellectual. Any movie with a character playing chess tells me one thing : the brain of this character is not to be trifled with.

>>15160418
uh... based... I guess...

>>15159789
that doesn't look like Bloom at all

>>15160139
The means you are extremely uncultured.

Husserl, Heidegger, Grothendieck, Bloom, Spivak... Every cultured person knows those names.

>>15159789
>mfw i lived to see /lit/ absolutely mogged by zyklon ben

>>15160489
lol yeah i should read more

>>15160321
He's talking about Michael Spivak, author of a Calculus textbook used at a lot of top universities. Garrison probably has no idea who these people are and just saw Beattie mention them.

https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1225933088431255558

>>15160321
>>15160739
Yeah I thought he meant Giyatri Spivak too

For the record Giyatri Spivak is a terrible piece of shit cunt so I'm glad it was Spivak's Calculus

>>15160489
>Husserl

If you don't know this name, you're new here

>>15160418
Amazing analysis. This needs to be a book.

>>15160307
I noticed that he added the "proud Jew" part after everyone accused him of being a white nationalist.
It is convenient that he lost his job at the White House for attending and speaking at a conference with Richard Spencer present, but still managed to get back up on his feet and become a speech writer for a Senator.
Ah, the privilege of being a Jew...

>>15159789
Based or pseud?

>>15160825
Both are shit, but more pseud.

>>15160279

no it isn't

>>15160933
This drawing sucks hard but anon is right about the labeling.

>>15160321
with that list, its obviously calculus spivak

idk but those are great heidegger and nabokov reaction pics

>>15159789
>Kolmogorov Analysis
>Spivak
>Hirsh
What undergrad/beginning grad school shitter made this?

>>15160097

k, but how did goldberg interact with beatie? (presumably the incident that inspired the image?) why washing the feet? Why are his shoes off? Why 'soap'?

Signifcance of 'Greek chorus' (i.e., nabakov et al.)?

why the ski poles?

and finally, significant of title, 'the cognitive peasant' ?

>>15159789
so he's a former political scientist/white house suit who's now trying to make it as a political grifter while constantly bragging that he took math courses in undergrad?

>>15160933
Yes it LITERALLY is.

>>15161157
Beattie has a math bachelor's from Chicago and a math PhD from Duke.

>>15160097
>Jonah Goldberg is a neocon hack, wearing his Goucher College outfit (low ranked), washing the feet of Darren Beattie.
Context?

>>15161186
that is not the same thing as labelling soap as "soap"

Mr Garrison

thank you

>>15161399
yes it is

>>15160418
>white man's
There's hardly any whites left though. That's what I don't understand about white nationalists. Their holy war was lost before they were ever born.

>>15160097
>>15161214
He's go a PhD in political science.


Martin Heidegger is generally regarded as one of the most significant—if also the most controversial—philosophers of the 20th century. Most scholarly engagement with Heidegger’s thought on Modernity approaches his work with a special focus on either his critique of technology, or on his more general critique of subjectivity. This dissertation project attempts to elucidate Martin Heidegger’s diagnosis of modernity, and, by extension, his thought as a whole, from the neglected standpoint of his understanding of mathematics, which he explicitly identifies as the essence of modernity.

Accordingly, our project attempts to work through the development of Modernity, as Heidegger understands it, on the basis of what we call a “mathematical dialectic.“ The basis of our analysis is that Heidegger’s understanding of Modernity, both on its own terms and in the context of his theory of history [Seinsgeschichte], is best understood in terms of the interaction between two essential, “mathematical” characteristics, namely, self-grounding and homogeneity. This project first investigates the mathematical qualities of these components of Modernity individually, and then attempts to trace the historical and philosophical development of Modernity on the basis of the interaction between these two components—an interaction that is, we argue, itself regulated by the structure of the mathematical, according to Heidegger’s understanding of the term.

The project undertaken here intends not only to serve as an interpretive, scholarly function of elucidating Heidegger’s understanding of Modernity, but also to advance the larger aim of defending the prescience, structural coherence, and relevance of Heidegger’s diagnosis of Modernity as such.

Fucking pseud larping as a STEMlord

>>15161018
I should've realized, but Gayatri Spivak is far more related to Plato, Husserl, Heidegger, and Nietzsche in my head.

>>15160097
>Jonah Goldberg
why the hate for goucher?

>>15159789
Is he talking about the Grothendieck the anarchist who had justices issues because he gave shelter to illegal aliens? The guy who sacrificed his career to fight militarism? Whose jewish dad was killed by nazis? Not sure "Zyklon" Ben would like this guy.

>>15161504

omfg....

This is real?!
Then the question becomes why did Duke give a PhD to what amounts to a high school cringelord's basement ravings on reddit....

...this trump shit really is exposing just how stupid humanity has become.

>>15160106
>Not knowing that bars of soap typically have company names or logos on them, but if he did that, he could be sued by that company, so he went with the generic word that would remove any doubts of what that block of white shit is in the water.

>>15160139
The absolute state of /lit/. Another clear demonstration of the tourist problem, nobody who’s been here for more than a month would have any trouble recognising most of the names. Go back to your home board, scum

>>15160825
What a load of word salad. There is no mathematical relation between identifying something with its usage. It is a cause and
qualitative/quantitative estimated effect. If I want to beat the living shit out of someone, I can use my fists, since they are hard. But if I have a baseball bat, I would rather use that, since it hurts them more and me less. I know that a baseball bat is meant for baseballs, but I know that baseball bats are hard and in this scenario, I am using it to beat the shit out of somebody with something harder (and qualitatively better) than my fists. Unless you needlessly attach numbers, there is only a
relatively quantitative sum to the qualitative feeling I wish to instill upon this person. Numbers need not apply. Only more or less.

>>15159789
>those perfect spines
ouch!

>>15160825
Wouldn't it be easier to just write in German?

>>15162100
More or less necessarily implies the existence of numbers

>>15162084
this whole site is full of retards, maybe its you who should get a change of scenery

>>15162175
But numbers does not imply the existence of math. If I have 3 oranges and 5 apples, which is better?
The reason this guy can get away with it is because he is using the frame of oranges to oranges with intent of enhancing the purpose which is not necessarily a mathematical equation, but rather a relation between similar metrics. A person can completely squeeze an orange in two minutes. A hand squeezer can do it in 20 seconds. Thus, the hand squeezer is better in the relation of volume/time, technology progresses, and modernity is reached. I admit my example was a bad one in that it happened to follow his theory in a caveman form. But looking at the thesis of his paper, provided by >>15161504, he attempts to envelope this caveman form merely by saying that a relation is a mathematical form, rather than a specific formula. To add insult to injury, this is based on what Beattie thinks Heidegger knew of the mathematical realm.

>>15160746
Gayatri*
But yes, she is a hack

>>15160756
I only know him from PhD anon

>>15160418
You can't have a people's liberation movement for a (indeed, the) colonial power

>>15160489
Dont care for some brainlets masturbating , only for higher metaphysical knowledge of divine texts

>>15162084
>would have any trouble recognising most of the names

No one has any trouble recognizing the names. At issue is the context, the point of the cartoon.

this isnt the real Ben: not nearly antisemitic enough

>>15162405
>No one has any trouble recognizing the names
im the guy that anon was replying to
you seem to have misunderstood my post

>>15162037
He could've just named it jew.

>>15160825
Lmao "maths PhD"

>>15160097
>washing the feet of Darren Beattie.
With what appears to be a Blue Oregon State Beaver scarf

>>15159789
>Husserl
>Plato
>Nietzsche
>O'Reilly: Killing Lincoln

>>15159789
this means bullshit

>>15161045
Correct assessment

Really confused as to what he is even trying to mean

It's all lost in hyperbole

>>15161567
Humanities phds are almost
always completely meaningless

>>15160097
>with a PhD in mathematics
Lmao. No he doesn't. He's just another pseud shill.

>>15161214
Bullshit. Stop lying.

>>15160825
lmao, is this what a STEM PhD larping as a humanities Phd looks like? This reminds me of icycalm using topology to define what good and bad art is.

>>15163245
You've got it the wrong way around. Beattie has a PhD in polisci not in math.

>>15163306
>Beattie has a PhD in polisci not in math.
That's just as bad, if not worse.

>>15159789
this is as painful as that pic where there's a wog kid standing on a book called "all the sciences" or something

>>15159789
Oh my god LOL

>>15160129 [NUMBERS]
RESPONSE

>>15159789
Honestly thought this was a well-done imitation it's so bizarre.
Does he not realize Bloom hates (I guess now 'hated') Trump?

>>15164197
He's intellectually on the same level as Chris Chan, the main difference are his fans are trust fund lads.

>>15159789
lol he even has to label the soap
why does heidegger having skiing poles indoors?
where to cop pure motives hoodie?
>spivak only wrote introductory textbooks
>Spivak coined Spivak pronouns, a set of English gender-neutral pronouns.[7]

bronze age pervert retweeting ben garrison cartoons of "academic" twitter wars

truely clown world

>>15159789

Holy fuck, that retarded boomer cunt needs to retire.
I think that is the worst cartoon I have ever seen in my life.
I think his evil racism has clearly driven his Nazi mind to insanity.

>>15161186

There are TWO THINGS LABELLED, RETARD!

duke really taking a big L here

>>15161045
NOOOO MATH IS WORTHLESS UNTIL YOU FINISH A POSTDOC. YOU CANT JUST GET SOMETHING OUT OF UNDERGRAD OR GRAD ANALYSIS. YOU ARE A PSUED UNLESS YOU WORK FOR AN ADVISOR FOR 5 YEARS, THEN THE MAGIC KNOWLEDGE CLICKS

>>15164278
spivaks "introductions" were the Bible for graduate differential geometry. he is like the best math author.

your the retard for forming opinions from Wikipedia pages you don't even understand

>>15159789
Imagine plagiarizing big brain Wojaks for your political cartoons

>>15162391
pseud cope

>>15162345
>But numbers does not imply the existence of math
Yes they do

>>15165308
Cope faggot
Undergrad math is mostly trivial

>>15163306
>Beattie has a PhD in polisci not in math.
More like a PhD in popsci

The more I look at this comic, the more distant I feel from any form of God, Truth or Reality

>>15161436
>how to cede

>>15159789
I don't get it.
Is Garrison a Mason?

>>15165419
so are you admitting your field isn't worth learning unless you become a researcher?

>>15160382
>top 10 greatest mathematicians of all time
Dude. No way. I mean, as a commie, I'm definitely rooting for the Soviets here, but Kolmogorov doesn't even break the top 10 of the 20th century.
>Grothendieck
>Hilbert
>Serre
>Atiyah
>Milnor
>von Neuman
>Cartan
>Weil
>Connes
>Wiles
The first 9 are all either foundational mathematicians within their field, or veritable paradigm shifters within their field. And the tenth fucking solved Fermat's last. Convince me that one of them needs to be kicked off the list to make room for Kolmogorov.
Kolmogorov was a brilliant mathematician, don't get me wrong, but I'm not putting a mathematician in the same category as Hilbert or Grothendieck just for applying meaure theory to probability and/or doing some economics. Hell, I'm not even sure if Kolmogorov is one of the top 10 analysts of the 20th century.

>>15167775
10 best at what? Kolmogorov's work has immense bredth, I think that saying Wiles is more important than him is a meme.
Like, the proof of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture was of immense important, but that's only one thing

>>15167775
>10 best at what
I mean, you're the one who imposed some sort of way at norming the oeuvre of a given mathematician by invoking "the top 10".
>but that's only one thing
That proof in itself is enough to enshrine a mathematician. I mean seriously anon, its not very often that a mathematician settles a 350 year old conjecture. Conway called it the "proof of the century".

>>15167943
meant for >>15167876

Looks like Garrison had a stroke of genius.... or possibly just a stroke.

can someone actually explain what this image is? I have no idea who beattie or jonah are

>>15159789
bump for the interpretive key to this mysterious picto-missive.

>>15169422
Jonah is a shitty Jewish pundit. Beattie is a shitty alt-right guy who got fired from his Trump admin job.

>>15167775
Anon you have a severe bias to Bourbaki and category theoretic methods; your perspective is pretty narrow and extremely based