Is There A Thermodynamic Psychophysiology Distending Between Energy Conservation and Entropy?

[Trausti]

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2015.1065124

Should we make such a presupposition? And really, there's too much controversy regarding open-system motifs in affect theory to be stated so cavalierly.

 

[J842P]

Nah. It's all bullshit. The symptom of the academy being in utter free-fall since the middle of the 20th century. The humanities have been pushing out a bunch of brain-dead followers for too long. Very few dissidents ever went to grad school, let alone got tenure. And it shows by the crap that passes for scholarship.

 

[bigfield]

Put. the thesaurus. down.

 

[DrZoidberg]

So if I understand that it argues that workers in a capitalist economy will feel bad. Is that was it says?

I like the Einstein quote, "if you can't say something simply then you don't understand it well"

 

[bilby]

So if I understand that it argues that workers in a capitalist economy will feel bad. Is that was it says?

I like the Einstein quote, "if you can't say something simply then you don't understand it well"

Actually, what it says is "I, the author, am far smarter and know more big words than you, so you shouldn't even attempt to understand what I am saying, but should simply agree wholeheartedly, lest you appear less educated than I. Now give me more grant money."

Of course it was far more eloquent when expressed as the original interpretive dance.

 

[DrZoidberg]

So if I understand that it argues that workers in a capitalist economy will feel bad. Is that was it says?

I like the Einstein quote, "if you can't say something simply then you don't understand it well"

Actually, what it says is "I, the author, am far smarter and know more big words than you, so you shouldn't even attempt to understand what I am saying, but should simply agree wholeheartedly, lest you appear less educated than I. Now give me more grant money."

Of course it was far more eloquent when expressed as the original interpretive dance.

I strongly doubt Karyn (yup, that's her name) understands all those words. There's also some odd combos there making the meaning vague. Prediction, she's not going to get a qualified job, ever.

 

[bilby]

Actually, what it says is "I, the author, am far smarter and know more big words than you, so you shouldn't even attempt to understand what I am saying, but should simply agree wholeheartedly, lest you appear less educated than I. Now give me more grant money."

Of course it was far more eloquent when expressed as the original interpretive dance.

I strongly doubt Karyn (yup, that's her name) understands all those words. There's also some odd combos there making the meaning vague. Prediction, she's not going to get a qualified job, ever.

Sometimes people use long words that they don't understand. They think it makes them seem more photosynthesis.

 

[DrZoidberg]

I strongly doubt Karyn (yup, that's her name) understands all those words. There's also some odd combos there making the meaning vague. Prediction, she's not going to get a qualified job, ever.

Sometimes people use long words that they don't understand. They think it makes them seem more photosynthesis.

Nothing is funnier that Malapropism.

 

[Thomas II]

So if I understand that it argues that workers in a capitalist economy will feel bad. Is that was it says?

I like the Einstein quote, "if you can't say something simply then you don't understand it well"

Actually, what it says is "I, the author, am far smarter and know more big words than you, so you shouldn't even attempt to understand what I am saying, but should simply agree wholeheartedly, lest you appear less educated than I. Now give me more grant money."

Of course it was far more eloquent when expressed as the original interpretive dance.

 

[Bomb#20]

Sokal did it first.

... Finally, the content of any science is profoundly constrained by the language within which its discourses are formulated; and mainstream Western physical science has, since Galileo, been formulated in the language of mathematics.100 101 But whose mathematics? The question is a fundamental one, for, as Aronowitz has observed, ``neither logic nor mathematics escapes the `contamination' of the social.''102 And as feminist thinkers have repeatedly pointed out, in the present culture this contamination is overwhelmingly capitalist, patriarchal and militaristic: ``mathematics is portrayed as a woman whose nature desires to be the conquered Other.''103 104 Thus, a liberatory science cannot be complete without a profound revision of the canon of mathematics.105 As yet no such emancipatory mathematics exists, and we can only speculate upon its eventual content. We can see hints of it in the multidimensional and nonlinear logic of fuzzy systems theory106; but this approach is still heavily marked by its origins in the crisis of late-capitalist production relations.107 Catastrophe theory108, with its dialectical emphases on smoothness/discontinuity and metamorphosis/unfolding, will indubitably play a major role in the future mathematics; but much theoretical work remains to be done before this approach can become a concrete tool of progressive political praxis.109 Finally, chaos theory -- which provides our deepest insights into the ubiquitous yet mysterious phenomenon of nonlinearity -- will be central to all future mathematics. And yet, these images of the future mathematics must remain but the haziest glimmer: for, alongside these three young branches in the tree of science, there will arise new trunks and branches -- entire new theoretical frameworks -- of which we, with our present ideological blinders, cannot yet even conceive.

 

[fromderinside]

From your keyboard to my junk file. Seriously, we don't need to hear the same thing every day. We're smart. - I feel so, so, Trump-like.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Post-Modernism rides again. Or somebody's cat walked on a keyboard.