BOOKS!

by TosspoT • 12 Jan 2007, 19:58 • Journals
Why are books written is such fucking retarded fashion, why dont you just make your point? I have an essay to write not an english lesson to read. I quote from something I was googling!

QuoteThe "return of the aesthetic" so often heralded in recent years as a corrective to the excesses of politically oriented criticism might be expected, at the very least, to reinvigorate stagnant debates over the meaning and implications of a long-contested term. Originally coined in the mid-eighteenth century to refer to the philosophy of taste, aesthetics took on a new valence in Kant's third critique as a discipline concerned more broadly with the cognitive conditions of sensuous perception. In the nineteenth century, Kant's emphasis on the contemplation of form as the defining feature of aesthetic experience was challenged, in turn, by the Hegelian focus on the content of art as the characteristic expression of an historically situated world view.


This was written by a man named David Porter, I've no idea who he is, but i dont like him! He could summise this paragraph in one line, instead he drives for 10 lines. DIE DIE DIE
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Sepje 12 Jan 2007, 20:00
DIE DIE DIE
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appel 12 Jan 2007, 20:04
DIE DIE DIE
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dimi 12 Jan 2007, 20:04
DIE DIE DIE
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im a tree 12 Jan 2007, 20:05
If you think this is bad, you obviously don't frequent wikipedia.
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Wbcko 12 Jan 2007, 20:05
DIE DIE DIE
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Decade 12 Jan 2007, 20:07
I don't think you could sum up what he wrote in 1/10 of the words. Prove me wrong
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blushing_bride 12 Jan 2007, 20:17
indeed the man just did a pretty decent job at summing up something that other people have spent their entire lives trying to define by writing entire books about it.
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Frop 12 Jan 2007, 20:22
Actually I think Mr. Porter's summary hardly does the material justice. This excerpt seems to be derived from a book that merely introduces you to the subject, or perhaps it's the introduction of an article on aesthetics.
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blushing_bride 12 Jan 2007, 21:18
exactly you cant really sum up such a massive subject in such a short space. Getting it down even more would lose even more meaning than has already been lost in such a brief summery.
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Matt 12 Jan 2007, 20:07
you mean

LIVE LIVE LIVE

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Sheep 12 Jan 2007, 20:09
DIE DIE DIE
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lovell 12 Jan 2007, 20:10
hyperbole ftw =)
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TosspoT 12 Jan 2007, 20:14
What is that?
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Aramusha 12 Jan 2007, 20:22
Hyperbole - Largely synonymous with exaggeration and overstatement, hyperbole is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated or extravagant. It may be used due to strong feelings or is used to create a strong impression and is not meant to be taken literally. It gives greater emphasis. It is often used in poetry and is a literary device.

Examples:

"She has a brain the size of a pinhead."
"I nearly died."
"She is so dumb her IQ is probably -2!"
"I will die if no one asks me to dance."
"He is as big as an elephant!"
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
"I told you a billion times not to exaggerate."
"I've heard that a billion and one times."
"She is one hundred feet tall."
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Aramusha 12 Jan 2007, 20:23
WIKIPEDIA NEVER LIES!
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Aramusha 12 Jan 2007, 20:10
DIE DIE DIE
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unki 12 Jan 2007, 20:13
DIE DIE DIE
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Shiner 12 Jan 2007, 20:19
David Porter is my friend already.
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JALLAAAAAA 12 Jan 2007, 20:21
Is it true everyone is sitting behind his/her pc because he/she doesn't likes books? or no one reads a book because they are behind his/her comp?o_0
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Aramusha 12 Jan 2007, 20:24
It's not true.
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Adacore 12 Jan 2007, 20:27
I don't read for pleasure purely because good books are really addictive for me. I know if I start reading a book I'll not do other vital stuff (work, sleep, etc) until I finish it...

My willpower sucks, if it were better I'd read loads though :D
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Aramusha 12 Jan 2007, 20:28
Level up and advance your Willpower (WP) stat.
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Adacore 12 Jan 2007, 20:29
I don't play MMORPGs for the same reason :D
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Aramusha 12 Jan 2007, 20:31
Awww... ;(

How about cRPGs? WILLPOWER IS IN ARCANUM!

I think some cRPGs aren't that bad (NOT HACK N SLASHES) since you actually NEED to talk with NPC. That leads to conversations - you think and you read.

I know english 'cause I played Fallout!
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Sgt.Pepper 12 Jan 2007, 20:24
learn to love it ^^
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Adacore 12 Jan 2007, 20:24
It's a pain to read... But in terms of being overly complex it doesn't seem too bad, although I agree a few phrases are a bit over-complicated for what he's saying. In the most part there just isn't a simpler way to express it though :(
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Mascot 12 Jan 2007, 21:49
I know what ur feelin` :<
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crook 12 Jan 2007, 22:16
hehe, troo.. had to read a book of 400pages. I summerised it in about 40pages and aced the exam o.O
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sock 12 Jan 2007, 22:23
Man, this is nothing, try reading some of Kants actual writings, or Aristotle - You have to look up every 5th word, which usually leads to reading a whole other 30 pages, and even if you do successfully understand the words, they're so convoluted and twisted it ends up making no impression on your brain - It's quite fun though, after 3 times reading it, although you had no idea whilst you were reading it, something clicks and you understand it all.

On to why they do it: academia, they all write like that, it's akin to writing in a special code - It keeps the proletariat out. There's an organisation which rallies for plain and simple academic texts, they haven't been very successful.
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crook 12 Jan 2007, 22:31
no its not... aristotoles and other greek philosophers their original works in greek are pretty simple most of the time
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sock 12 Jan 2007, 22:44
I completely forgot that I'm fluent in greek.
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crook 13 Jan 2007, 01:09
welcome to the club!
just saying that its unnecessary to write 5sentences where one would suffice. And that u should blame the translators if aristotoles is like that aswell, since he himself wrote his text in pretty plain language and still was perfectly understandable
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aeq 13 Jan 2007, 10:17
this is weird. i was just reading some stuff of porter. anyway i dont find the text that weird ,its just the evolution of aesthetics. quite understandable still. try reading some of the law books we have here... talking about im possible :S
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