/lit/ - Literature

2deep4u all? Watch this man, he's a genius.

bro this isn't english

>>3954038
Explain how this is a critic of the French sciences. I didn't understand shit

>"The French Science"
>No discussion of French physics and mathematics

He should havejust kept smoking weed.

There's no French science since there are no French scientists.

>>3954344
>>3954350
>>3954365
It's a criticism of the meaningless, over-wordiness of French philosophy (that's what he means by "French science"). This is a guy that Chomsky would agree with.

>>3954284
Watch for more than 30 seconds you pleb

I fucking love Reggie Watts man. I think he's doing more with his act than people realize.

Reggie Watts fucking sucks

Performance art is pretentious

I think it's better to call it satire than a critique. Yeah, he's making fun of it but you can tell there's some enjoyment of it.

neil hamburger would have done it better

this guy is diseased

>>3957228
Diseased?

Reggie watts is an incedental intellectual. he's just a bohemian artist that happens to also be really funny and intelligent.
this is perhaps a response to the overspaghettification prevalent in the works of people like chomsky, derrida, and lacan. But it also might be gibberish tha was completely uninfluenced by them that also happens to bare similar fields of reference. much of what he has to say are extremely vacuous statements that have been injected with a serious overdose of high vocabulary and confusing sentence structure.
While it may appear that it's a response to supposed intellectual writings about language it comes closer to Heidegger-esque phenomenological gobbledygook and argle-bargle.
I consider it a satire of intellectualism on the whole as opposed to any specific persons or "french science". The fact that it's interspersed with improvised musical genius constructed of nonsense and scatting typical of his other work further implies that Reggie has probably been influenced by artistic movements like Dadaism and people like Cy Twombly and has just found a niche for his humor on these subjects in the TED audience.

also it's pretty funny and very cool to watch while high. This is one of my favorite things I've seen by reggie

>>3957254
He actually says "French science" in the video though, that's why I thought he might be referring to French philosophers.

sure showed'd those french :D fred rocks

Yes, but he refers to the "French Science" in an English accent, and some of the content of his satire also pokes fun at empirical studies launched to confirm things that everyone already knows. It's a two pronged satire that pokes fun at the excesses of both approaches.

"Ironical shitposting is just shitposting."
-Christopher Poole

sage

>>3957288
>I don't like this, so it's shitposting!

That's all that I read that as. And sage isn't a 'downvote', kiddo.

>>3957254
>incedental
>bare

fucking
>overspaghettification

>>3957254
>Heidegger-esque phenomenological gobbledygook and argle-bargle.

lay off heidegger m8

>>3957303
so it was funny to you?
you'd pay to see this?

>mfw people actually stood up to clap at the end
jesus fucking christ

>>3957330
It wasn't humorous to me, no. As someone who regularly watches TED though, it did give me a smirk. The whole thing felt like an inside joke, so if you don't watch TED it wouldn't have meant much to you.

Anyway, I'm simply hyper anal about board etiquette.

>>3957330

It was great. What are you talking about? It was better than anything I've ever seen affiliated with TED.

>>3957343
>As someone who regularly watches TED

>>3957343
>As someone who regularly watches TED
>I'm simply hyper anal about board etiquette.
yeah ok I'v heard enough please don't reply to me anymore sage

>>3957343

> HYPER ANAL

>>3957347
Your implied stereotype makes little sense and your shitposting is rapidly spiraling out of control to /s4s/-esque quality.

>>3957358
Is there something now inherently upsetting about watching lectures by Michio Kaku and the like?

>>3957366
i bet you have a shelf dedicated to dale carnegie

>>3957359
hahahaha

He really tore into Alan Watts there at around 6:00