lefty AI way to signal reduce bio-leninism ??

 

22/03 ---- 12Nite ------- k103 ----- 16/09: {lot}
how mysterious ... why do they not mention Douglas Collins and just his book title for the infographin on the thumb [full of probs, as noted below]?
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251 notes beneath a 28 page long early noughties article by Seattle language studies prof Douglas Collins - frankfurt school focused author paraphrased by the 'absurdity doctoraters on yt as 'weaponizing smallness' .. The description offers no source info but i do eventually find this:
https://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0802/collins-2/
Seattle Fr / It Studies UoWa - AnPo journal Vo8 No2 Fall02 / Winter03
"great effects of small things: Insignificance With Immanence in Critical Theory"

UCLA  put an archive for this Journal online in the late 10s prolly .. defensively triggered by the virality of bioleninism awareness i am guessing .. 
and perhaps the video i will now discuss is a smokescreen as they try to scramble for a better beartrap behind the scenes ...



why weren't any enlightended judges in place to forbid SuckerBorg from appropriating Meta due to prior use being in no way relatable to digitized and anthrodapted Mouse Experiment MisRule?

and that's what is goin on here ... terminology gets stolen .. meanings and sources get signal reduced and all fed into giant tumblers n gauntlets .... then try dance to the tune of people pretending to be AI ... That IS what you're doin here right ??? .. Mental vertigo inducers .. or agility trainers ... i cannot determine motivation from where i sit but i do have some remarks to guide the stray visitor thru the sardonic mockery here:



AI on the frankfurt school does an infographic on the thumb which weakly indicates grounding benefits .. shows sucklings vs robots and calls the intimacies and most defensible of defenders .. our 'incient' ancient micro 'contactees' [contact easers // tease w 'takteurs'] "weapons" ... how is that helpful pray tell??
To Champion, practice, derive comfort from, hide, shelter, restore in the arms and nonharms on and amongst limb n wing of "minutiaea" allowed to unpack and flourish unmolested long enuff to present that 'spectacle' [just to use a totally inappropriate term from a rival skuul/shul w pilpul rule].
That's reall fucked up bro ...........

actor vs tactor  ... touch the greats the olds and the most awesome 'staat van diensters' ... or lift the villagers off their ground, pack'm thick, stack'm hi and let them indulge their theatrix ... goin for that glibly globalized 60s mouse opulence leading to mass suicide experiment, unbashful about reproducing this model an mode to all who somehow get marked by the purview of the diabolicizin s metabolixeurz

ps: whoever is responsible for the part on the right "nano-aesthetic strategy" is a numb n dumbskulligwiggullee polyprog ...
contrasts things that are perfectly complementary and by no means contradiczions that signal origination from the split mind of a person/peephull deadset on [duh great 'verpa[n]tsering' and clutchin mindsplitsetting.

merely well intentioned babble cannot be stood under at all, let alone reliably, .. which has to wait until the support posts pillars and piles are secured .. shored up [vast gesjord]


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Transcript
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Welcome to Doctrates of the Absurd, your provider of belief on demand. Today we are acting as your lead
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architects. Our mission is well to transmute the text, The Great Effects of
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Small Things by Douglas Collins into a briefing on what you could call the weaponization of the tiny.
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I have to be honest with you, when I first saw the title for this deep dive, my mind immediately went to uh
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nanotechnology or maybe something about chaos theory, you know, the butterfly effect. Sure, that makes sense. It's the great
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effects of small things. It sounds very scientific. Exactly. But then I started reading and I realized pretty quickly we're in a
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completely different universe. I mean, this is dense critical theory. It's heavy philosophy. And it opens with a
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statement that uh quite literally made me put my tablet down and just stare at the wall for a minute.
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It's a confrontational text, isn't it? It doesn't ease you in. No, not at all. Yeah. It throws you right in the deep end. It
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starts with this quote from Andre Malro, and it's about a specific way of seeing the world. And the quote is, "The
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trembling of a branch against the sky is more important than Hitler." The trembling of a branch against the
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sky is more important than Hitler. I just want to pause on that because on the surface that sounds well, it sounds
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insane and frankly it borders on offensive. Hitler is, you know, the architect of the Holocaust, a figure of
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such massive horrific historical weight, the absolute epitome of evil in the 20th
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century, right? And a branch is just it's a piece of wood. It's barely anything. So to
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claim the branch is more important, it feels like kind of moral abdication.
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Like you're just deciding to ignore evil, to go look at pretty nature scenes. And that's exactly the reaction the text
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wants to provoke. It's a violent juxtaposition on purpose. It forces you to question what important even means.
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Malro and Collins, the author, they aren't talking about historical impact in the way a history book would.
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Okay? So they're not weighing lives against leaves. Not at all. They're talking about something more abstract. They're talking about what the text calls the infinite
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invasion of history versus the let's say the sanctity of the present moment.
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The infinite invasion of history. That's a powerful phrase. So if we're going to spend the next hour on this, I need to
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understand why a twig gets to hold the moral high ground over a dictator.
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Okay. So it all comes down to this central conflict, the whole versus the fragment. Hitler represents the ultimate
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terrifying form of the whole. What do you mean by the whole? The totalitarian state, the grand
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narrative, the single unifying idea that everything, every person, every resource, every single moment must be
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conscripted into one giant marching purpose. That's bigness. That's what the text calls greatness.
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The branch, the branch is just a detail. It's a fragment. It's just trembling. It's not trying to go anywhere. It's not trying
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to conquer the sky. It's just brushing up against it. It has no agenda, no grand plan.
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So it's innocent. Exactly. Because it has no agenda. Because it is small and disconnected from any grand purpose. It's the only
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thing that remains innocent. So the argument then is that greatness itself is the crime. The ambition to be
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the whole is where the poison lies. Precisely. And that brings us right to
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the first major section of our briefing. The existential friction, the why now of
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it all. The text identifies the specific crisis in western thought which is the
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slow dawning realization that unity and the whole are inherently violent
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concepts. That is a very hard pill to swallow. I mean we're raised on the ideal of unity. Elorurbus unum out of many. One, we want
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to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Of course, we build monuments. Yeah. We want our lives to have a grand arc, a
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purpose. Is this text telling us that that fundamental human desire is wrong? It would say it's dangerous. It's very
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dangerous. The text leans heavily on the philosopher Theodore Adorno who is writing in the shadow of World War II.
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And there's a line from him in the source material that is just haunting. He says, "Greatness is the guilt that
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works bare." Greatness is the guilt that works bare. Wow. Think about it. Think about the pyramids. They are great. They are
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monumental. They represent the whole of a civilization's power. But what did it take to build them?
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Suffering, slavery, untold numbers of lives. Exactly. The greatness of the object is
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built on the crushed lives of the many. The text argues that anytime you try to
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create a total system, whether it's a massive empire, a comprehensive philosophy, or even say the great
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American novel, you have to use force. You have to crush the details that don't fit your grand vision.
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You have to smooth out the rough edges. And those rough edges are usually people. Their lives, their quirks, their inconvenient realities. So the friction
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here, the thing that shouldn't make us uncomfortable is the realization that if I want to be a great man or build a
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great company, I'm essentially signing up to be a villain in this story. You're signing up to be an agent of what
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the text calls mutilation. That's the word it uses. You are mutilating reality to make it fit your vision. And this
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brings us to the aagonist, which is a fantastic term. Yeah. Not the antagonist, the aagonist.
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It's the default setting we're fighting against. The enemy in this text isn't a person like a specific CEO or
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politician. It's our own deep-seated obsession with monumentality, the desire to be big,
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the desire to be one, to be whole. Collins breaks this down by using Adorno's comparison of the American view
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versus the French view. And I have to say, Adono does not pull his punches when it comes to the American landscape.

 "hemophobic art"—the small that has never been anything other than itself.
• #Micrology: Referenced as the place where "metaphysics finds a haven from totality".
• #Rhopography: Defined in the sources as a "constellation of smalls" or the depiction of trivial objects.
• #NegativeDialectics: A major theme involving Adorno’s search for a "lesser negativity" that avoids the violence of "greater" historical narratives.
• #TheGreatInSmall: Reflects the central thesis that the "minute detail" is what blocks "infinite invasion".
Major Figures Mentioned
• #TheodorAdorno: Extensively cited regarding the "greatness-guilt relation," the "French instinct" against integral form, and the "negative dialectic".
• #GWFHegel: Discussed in relation to the "negativity cycle" and his approvement of "public beauty" over "private insignificance".
• #JacquesDerrida: Highlighted for his focus on the "detail," the "hedgehog" as a metaphor for poetry, and the concept of différance.
• #MarcelProust: Used as a primary example of a writer whose work revolves around the "centrality of the almost nothing" and the "little patch of yellow wall".
• #WalterBenjamin: Cited for his intent to "save inductive reasoning" through the smallest cells of reality.
• #SigmundFreud: His theories on narcissism, the ego ideal, and the psychology of jokes are used to explain why humans find relief in small things.
Themes and Metaphors
• #PhilosophyOfArt: The sources delve deeply into how art manages "identification" and "negation" through scale.
• #TheHedgehog: A recurring metaphor from the sources (via Archilochus, Nietzsche, and Derrida) representing the fragment that protects itself by rolling into a ball.
• #Insignificance: The central subject—exploring how "negligible" things can unmake grand sequences.
• #AestheticTheory: The sources argue that "aesthetic theory is gap analysis," studying the source of the trouble t