/lit/ - Literature

>Plot is resolved through quantum physics
>manuscript returned because of nonstandard kerning and single spaced format

>>6675970
It was pretty good

>at the brink of destruction the army comes and saves everyone and nothing happens

>>6675970
>tachyons

>>6676041
Teteractys

>>6675970
>This situation is a lot like Schroedinger's cat
>Schroedinger's cat? What is that?
>Well, allow me to explain...

>>6676057
>actys
Actor–network theory, often abbreviated as ANT, is an approach to social theory and research

Although ANT is mostly associated with studies of science and technology and with the sociology of science, it has been making steady progress in other fields of sociology as well

>>6675970
supersymmetric representation
Adinkra symbols

>>6676082
Transitions from one percept to its alternative are called perceptual reversals

Perceptual multistability can be evoked by visual patterns that are too ambiguous for the human visual system to recognise with one unique interpretation

>>6676065
>explains incorrectly

>>6676068
"Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion" - Kristen Stewart

>>6676088
Reality checkd

>>6676103
tbh between her and also-YA-made-into-movie star emma watson i prefer her. at least she seems self conscious and unsure. she's probably more likely to understand that she has to improve. watson is so fucking full of herself

>>6676108

>Reality hackers...

>For it is they who surf the waves of Cosmic
energy, pulling from it what they need to create what they desire

>>6676142
Nice 42

>>6675970
whats my waifu doing on /lit/. damn you /tv/.

>you will never watch bergman films with her and then laugh at her farts

>>6676116
"I never expected that this would be my life" - Kristen Stewart

>>6675999
eugh i tried to read cryptonomicon

FEDORA TRASH
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DORA TRASHFE
ORA TRASHFED
RA TRASHFEDO
A TRASHFEDOR

T ARODEFHSAR
RT ARODEFHSA
ART ARODEFHS
SART ARODEFH
HSART ARODEF

>>6676088
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistable_perception
>In literature, the science fiction novel Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany, contains circular text, multistable perception, and multiple entry points.

>>6676171
Loose as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNnlYyByWQQ

>>6676116
No
Emma Watson is perfection incarnate.

>>6675970
Multistable perceptual phenomena are a form of perceptual phenomena in which there are unpredictable sequences of spontaneous subjective changes

>>6676170
One of the antagonists is literally a libertarian fedora tipper
cryptonomicon is basically just supportive of a non-government controlled currency, and otherwise pretty politically moderate

>>6676208
>"I 'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever"

>>6675970
dude
*all* plots are resolved through quantum physics

>>6676199
Polysemy

the coexistence of many possible meanings

>>6676232
>there's a giant net in space holding the earth in position

Scientists aren't really this dumb, are they? What's holding the net in place?

>>6676223
im talking less about the political views and more about the insufferable wasted pages explaining something irrelevant to the story and themes.

>>6676238
Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye

>>6675970
>"I like being in movies that have a great story" - Kristen Stewart

>>6675970
The deus ex machina of the modern man.

>>6676238
> What's holding the net in place?

An even bigger net beyond

My Heart Is A Wiffle Ball/Freedom Pole

I reared digital moonlight
You read its clock, scrawled neon
across that black
Kismetly … ubiquitously crest fallen
Thrown down to strafe your foothills...
I'll suck the bones pretty.
Your nature perforated the abrasive
organ pumps
Spray painted everything known to man,
Stream rushed through and all out into
Something
Whilst the crackling stare down sun snuck
Through our windows boarded up
He hit your flint face and it sparked.
And I bellowed and you parked
We reached Marfa.

One honest day up on this freedom pole
Devils not done digging
He's speaking in tongues all along the
pan handle

And this pining erosion is getting dust in
My eyes
And I'm drunk on your morsels
And so I look down the line
Your every twitch hand drum salute
Salutes mine...


I think this is a good poem

>>6676250
>unthinkable complexity

nice science

>>6676281
>>Kismetly … ubiquitously crest fallen

>>6676224
"I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything" - Emma

>>6676290
>Renaissance woman

>>6676270
The eternal force

>>6676238
Dark matter.

>>6676223
lol I haven't read the book but "non-government controlled currency" is an absolutely insane far-right position on economics

>>6676242
That sounds like a theme that's relevant to the story. I think Stephenson just goes over your head. I mean that as an insult to you, not as praise to Stephenson, who is very fedora at times.

>>6676294

"The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing" - Emma

“crystallized” with multiple facets

Crystallized self in practice

To better realize a crystallized self, individuals might consider the following:

Rather than privileging work as the only productive realm of everyday experience, individuals should begin to elevate their nonprofessional selves alongside those that intersect with work

Play with language. Next time you’re at a party and asked what you do, rather than responding with your job title, consider playing with the answer. You could say, for instance, “I play with my child. I volunteer. I do yoga.”

>>6676311
>"I check dubs"

>>6676311
You sound like a very boring person.

>>6676310
ah yes the relevancy of pages(WITH diagrams) about Lawrence's masturbation habits just to introduce his marriage

Stating that Stephenson could go over anyone's head is pretty bold, in fact.

>>6676311
you could always try "I do a little web design"

>>6676330
I'm a different poster and I haven't read Cryptonomicon, I was thinking more of Anathem and Snow Crash. Scientific concepts are important thematic elements and are involved in numerous plot points in both books. Neither makes sense without the concepts. Like I said, it was more of an insult to you than anything else. I don't think highly of Stephenson, but the significance of the way he incorporates science into his plots is hard to miss.

>>6676356
Oh yeah, he does explain the science. That wasn't what I was talking about. I was talking about when he goes on at length explaining something irrelevant to the story and themes, which is something I clearly wrote in my first post. Please read it again. Then fuck off.

>>6676366
Why at makes you think that's irrelevant to the plot? A character's sexuality says a lot about the character. It seems pretty pleb to disregard autistic masturbation graphs.

>>6675970
>Pretension makes me sooo angry >:(

>>6676371
Yeah, I absolutely think people should sacrifice their already lacking rhythm for several pages of characterization about a character who has already had hundreds of pages of characterization.

Are his other books of the same length?(1000+)

If they aren't I can see how you don't quite understand my gripe here. It's not a development its really a redundancy which is stated in a different place already and the small development which occurs could be summed up by maybe a paragraph at the longest.

>>6676398
Anathem is 1000+ pages long. Honestly, he's doing what DFW tried to do with footnotes in Infinite Jest but without the footnotes. I haven't read that one book you're complaining about so I don't know how bad it is there. Like I said I don't think Stephenson is great, I just don't think you give him enough credit.

>>6676311
"I meme"

>>6676336

Transmedia storytelling (also known as transmedia narrative or multiplatform storytelling, cross-media seriality etc.) is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats including, but not limited to, games, books, events, cinema and television. The purpose being to not only reach a wider audience by expanding the target market pool, but to expand the narrative itself

Transmediation can refer to the process of "responding to cultural texts in a range of sign systems -- art, movement, sculpture, dance, music, and so on -- as well as in words."

Transmediated works are closely linked to semiotics and technology in the context of digital media.

We live in a mediacentric society filled with many affective sign systems.

Various great Enlightenment figures could be seen as lateral mediarists in that they wrote and copied ideas amongst the great thinkers of that era, a bit like the Internet

The Internet is largely a lateral media, specifically designed to promote lateral communication

>>6675970

>plot is resolved

Get with times, grandpa.

>>6676438
>Denk meme

>>6676445
>single story OR story experience
>semiotics

into the trash you go

>>6676318

>Play with language
>Letters, feathers, it's how you use them

>>6675970

Hyperdimensional Reality and Syncromysticism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3piEWf2OZAE

In order to approach new ways of making sense of narrative, one must first distinguish two different systems that can be found in the narrative structure: the sequence of events and the sequence of the actor's interactions. The former is the order in time in which all the events take place


Both constitute interdependent systems that express the flow of the narrative on two different levels.

Defining what constitutes a relationship depends on the specific research questions formulated for the study of the narrative

>>6676599
have you watched secret glory?

>>6676223
Plus the protagonists girlfriend is a passive aggressive women's studies grad student who writes a research paper about how his beard is gross

>>cryptonomicon sequel anathema prequel when

>>6676311
please stop

please stop what you're doing

>>6676599
>literally extremely helpful
>poetic sci fi story told out of order
Thanks

>>6676807
>only one female character who does not have sex with the 3(not including one because he never meets any women) protagonists
>she plays a minor role

>>6676823
Sorry
What am I doing?

>>6676823
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man

>Eliade proposed several different definitions of the word "shamanism". The first of these was that shamanism simply constituted a "technique of ecstasy", and in Eliade's opinion, this was the "least hazardous" definition

>>6676311
>Rather than privileging work as the only productive realm of everyday experience, individuals should begin to elevate their nonprofessional selves alongside those that intersect with work

very true, your example is just a good way to sound like a cunt tho tbh

>>6677513
What's wrong with yoga or volunteering?

>>6677575
Nothing, but you know they mean "what is your profession", so not answering the question just makes you sound like a facetious smartass.

>>6677586

>>6676503
>Play with language

Permeating the living reality of our culture are certain contagious notions, fads and trends that have the ability to influence the way we think about the nature of Reality and ourselves.

"Subculture: The Meaning of Style", Dick Hebdige discusses how an individual can be identified as a bricoleur when they "appropriated another range of commodities by placing them in a symbolic ensemble which served to erase or subvert their original straight meanings"

>>6677586
Can you meet me halfway?


>George Gurdjieff remarked that we live in the “circle of the confusion of tongues” and suggested we need to build a language upon the principles of relativity in order to introduce relativity into all concepts and therefore make it possible to determine the angle of thought. This analogy of “geometric” communication,

>>6676238
mexicans

>>6676057
The Tetractys [also known as the decad] is an equilateral triangle formed from the sequence of the first ten numbers aligned in four rows. It is both a mathematical idea and a metaphysical symbol that embraces within itself—in seedlike form—the principles of the natural world, the harmony of the cosmos, the ascent to the divine, and the mysteries of the divine realm.

>this whole thread
Who let the schizos loose?

>>6677892
Destroy, destroy. The tasks of schizoanalysis goes by way of destruction – a whole scouring of the unconscious, a complete curettage. Destroy Oedipus, the illusion of the ego, the puppet of the superego, guilt, the law, castration. It is not a matter of pious destruction, such as those performed by psychoanalysis under the benevolent neutral eye of the analyst. For these are Hegel-style destruction, ways of conserving. How is it that the celebrated neutrality, and what psychoanalysis calls – dares to call – the disappearance or dissolution of the Oedipus complex, does not make us burst into laughter?

>>6676103
Who's the ugly friend?

>>6676041
We need a tachyon amplifier!

>>6677892
Does it not make sense?
Lurk moar n lrn2archives

>>6679524

Collaborative information seeking can extend to collaborative information synthesis

>>6679771

Human creativity plays an important role in activity theory, that "human beings... are essentially creative beings"

One principle of activity theory is that many activities have multiple motivation (‘polymotivation’)

>>6676041

10, 9, 8, 7, triple six, five, forked tongue...

>>6676299
hilarious. you're retarded aren't you.

special relativity, and even dark matter and all this modern nonsense were already BTFO by wilhelm reich in 1940.

>>6676270
Jesus

>>6676116
Have you seen Clouds of Sils Maria? Kstew is actually great in it, she won a cesar award for it, first American actress to ever win one.

Watson is garbage at acting, watch the new trailer for Regression, her line delivery is abhorrant.

>>6675970
>plot is resolved through semen demon

>>6676371

It's part of his style. Not saying it's a good thing, but I didn't mind too much. I found it a bit funny. I especially liked some of the tangents he went off on when it came to maths and science, like with the broken bike wheel for example. Though he really made some stupid shit up when when it came to how Randall used his computer.

>>6676301

So how come the bitcoin community is filled to the brink with lefties? I think you have confused 'rightist' with 'statist', I didn't expect such retardation on /lit/.

>>6676807

Yeah and he dumps her as part of his character progression. I really the part when he found out about the rape fantasy books in her basement or whatever it was (it was a while since I read the book so forgive me if I got details wrong).

>>6679965

In action learning. questions allow group members to “step out of the frame of the prevailing ideology,”

The process of “stepping out” of a frame, out of a form of knowing – a prevailing ideology – is analogous to the work of artists as they struggle to give birth to fresh ways of seeing the world

>>6679965
ntertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text. Examples of intertextuality are an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text, and a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.

Some critics have complained that the ubiquity of the term "intertextuality" in postmodern criticism has crowded out related terms and important nuances

The term “intertextuality” has, itself, been borrowed and transformed many times

Linguist Norman Fairclough states that "intertextuality is a matter of recontextualization."

>>6675970
> Quantum physics as a shorthand for magic

>>6680022

Abstract machine : is a model. Abstract machines are often used in thought experiments.

Abstraction : is the process by which data and programs are defined with a representation similar in form to its meaning (semantics), while hiding away the implementation details. Abstraction captures only those details about an object that are relevant to the current perspective.

Abstraction layer : a way of hiding the implementation details of a particular set of functionality. A system can have several abstraction layers whereby different meanings and amounts of detail are exposed

>>6680086

Abstract object theory, also known as abstract theory, is a branch of metaphysics regarding abstract objects, and studied in hyperdimensional physics. The theory was an expansion of mathematical Platonism

>>6680092
ear maggots

>>6680086

So let the deep, sparkly waters serve as a symbol to each of you. That if you work hard enough, if you dream big enough, anything is possible...

>>6675970
>plot is resolved through me ejaculating a gallon of jism in K-Stew's anan cananal

>>6680622
kek

>>6675970

You gotta believe
https://youtu.be/rHcPksqIwtw

>>6680686

Malcolm Gladwell
expresses a point of view that luck plays an even bigger role
than intelligence.

Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell’s book emphasizes the role of luck

His examples are mostly anecdotal. It’s hard to prove whether
luck or intelligence is more important for life success. Research
on luck is hard to conceptualize.

People who focus on intelligence typically do not downplay the
role of luck; people who focus on luck should not downplay
the role of intelligence.

>>6680711
Did someone seriously just cite Malcolm fucking Gladwell on /lit/ as if he's a legitimate source for anything?

I'm out of here.