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secretmellowblog · 6 months ago

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Okay, here are some random panels I’m personally looking forward to at the online Les mis convention Barricadescon starting tomorrow!! (note that this off the top of my head, and they’re in no particular order, and that I am excited for all of em.)

(Also note that it’s the last day to register, which you can do on their site here. You can also see the full program of all the panels/their descriptions here.)

1. I’ll say any of the Guests of Honor (Jean Baptiste Hugo, the descendant of Hugo will be talking about his project photographing his ancestor’s house; Christina Soontornvat, author of the award-winning Les Mis retelling “A Wish in the Dark;” and Luciano Muriel, playwright of a 2018 play about Grantaire.)

2. @psalm22-6 ‘s panel “Early Transformative Works,” which is about the earliest Les Mis retellings, parodies, and “fanfics” from the 1800s/early 20th century. They’ve shared deeply cursed sneak peeks with me. Apparently in 1863 a man wrote a “proper Christian” retelling of Les Mis where Javert is reimagined as a proper Christian woman following poor criminals around giving them charity while they keep rejecting her kindness. Powerful. Javert as Mary Sue. (Note that I may be explaining poorly because I haven’t seen the panel yet.

3. History podcaster David Montgomery’s panel “The Yellow Passport: Surveillance and Control in 19th Century France,” which dives into the role of the police and strategies of government surveillance at the time Les Mis is set!

4. My own panel “Why Is There a Roller Coaster in Les Mis,” which I shared the first five minutes of here. There’s an actual scene in Les Mis where Fantine rides a roller coaster so I made a full defunctland video on how that roller coaster got to Paris in 1817, the fascinating historical context behind early roller coasters, and why it became defunct.

5. @thecandlesticksfromlesmis ‘s panel “Beat for Beat,” analyzing the script of Les Mis 2012 and contrasting it with the book and musical. Discussion of 2012 is almost overwhelmingly always about its music or cinematography, and I’m fascinated to hear someone finally analyzing the screenplay/ structural changes.

6. Morbidly curious for “Lee’s Miserables,” the academic panel discussing the paradoxical popularity of a censored version Les Mis in the Confederate South (with all the references to the evils of slavery carefully removed of course)

7. “Barricades as a Tactic,” a panel discussing how barricades actually functioned as a tool of warfare historically and the echoes of them in the modern day.

8. All the little social meetups, including the Preliminary Gaieties drinking game!

9. I’m biased because I’m also helping present this one, but the @lesmisletters panel (on the Dracula-daily inspired Les Mis readalong happening now.)

10. “The Fallibility of History in Les Miserables,” by @syrupsyche. It’s a panel analyzing the way Hugo often treats Les mis as a story that he learned about through research/gossip, rather than a fictional narrative— analyzing where Hugo does that in the text and what it means thematically.

11. The Unknown Light Examined, by Madeleine— a panel analyzing the chapter where the Bishop confronts the elderly revolutionary, and is forced to re examine his political beliefs! An iconic chapter, and the abstract is very compelling.

But also a lot more, check out the exhaustive list here XD. And also register at this link!

#les mis #les mis letters #barricade day #:D

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year ago

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By: Ben Appel

Published: Dec 26, 2023

In 2021, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven stated on a television news program that there are “two sexes” and that “those sexes are designated by the kinds of gametes we produce.” She added that “understanding facts about biology doesn’t prevent us from treating people with respect” when it comes to “their gender identities and use [of] their preferred pronouns.” Afterward, a Harvard graduate student, in her official capacity as director of the Human Evolutionary Biology Department’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Task Force, tweeted that Hooven’s “dangerous” and “transphobic” remarks made the department unsafe for transgender people. The Graduate Student Union took out a petition against Hooven, and, since no one would agree to serve as her teaching assistant, she had to discontinue her popular lecture course. This past January, under duress, Hooven retired from her position at Harvard.

More recently, I heard Hooven speak at a conference in Denver. She talked about academic freedom and her dedication to creating a just society. She said something I believe: that the truth is the way toward true social justice, and that the truth is what ultimately alleviates human suffering. After Hooven left the stage, I tweeted my thoughts about what she said, concluding, “Yep, I’ll die on that hill.” A Twitter user, in a now-deleted series of replies, responded, “Wish you would then. And quickly.” Later, this person elaborated, “Cis white conservative gays can all d*e. Please do, no one likes you.”

This might be the first time I’ve been called “conservative” for voicing my support of the truth and social justice. Right-wing homophobia is nothing new, though the enmity for “cis white gays” like me from the other side of the aisle has sadly also become widespread online. Here’s a very small sampling:

“[C]is white gay men are the weakest links and idc who knows it.” — @ann_forcino.

“ur rave wasn't ‘100% queer joy’ it was a warehouse party full of white cis gay men who want to dance and fuck each other lmfao [...] “that's not queer joy, that's f^g joy.” — @Maxies_back

“Chelsea and Hells Kitchen, more so than other neighborhoods in New York, produce nothing better than prissy, entitled cis White Power pretentious gay men, who don't respect diversity, or the rule of law.” — “LGBT for Change”

“Maybe they were right all along and white cis gays really do go to hell.” — Jerry Falwell @obssdwmlp

“Behind every bad man there is an even worse cis gay white man.” — @ANIMETWTDNI

“We need to realize that gay cis white men are still cis white men.” — @pettypiedpipertake

“Maybe homophobia against cis white gay men is valid.” — @heartIwin

“Noah Schnapp is also evidence that gays will truly go to h£ll. especially a cis white upper class gay like i genuinely, genuinely mean that and i’m sorry if that comes off as problematic.” [Schnapp is a 19-year-old Jewish gay actor who has spoken out in support of Israel in the wake of the October 7 2023 terrorist attacks.] — @brat6z

“I love it when white gays erase the trans and black side of this flag [...] You faggots deserve to get hatecrimed to death.” — @daredevilshill_

Writing for The Nation in 1994, the gay playwright Tony Kushner argued that homosexuality and socialism are intrinsically linked. Homosexuals, he wrote, “like most everyone else, are and will continue to be oppressed by the depredations of capital until some better way of living together can be arrived at.” Kushner lamented the growing number of gay activists, like Andrew Sullivan and Bruce Bawer, who advocated a more pragmatic approach to equal rights. The radical contingent of the LGBT community has long pejoratively described these types of gay and bi people — those who prioritize marriage equality, the right to serve openly in the military, and peaceful inclusion in Western society — as “assimilationist.” Real gay liberation, the radicals argue, will result from razing Western civilization and its capitalist, cisheteropatriarchal system and rebuilding it in their utopian vision. Like the gay journalist Donna Minkowitz once said to Charlie Rose, “We don’t want a place at the table — we want to turn the table over.”

The thing is, the pragmatic approach won. Today, gay, lesbian, and bi people get married, serve proudly, have jobs, own homes, and raise families. Like black civil rights leaders who preached nonviolent protest and a politics of respectability, discerning LGBT activists took the long view. We don’t want to exist on the margins of society, they insisted, we want to participate in it. LGBT people, just like black Americans, are a vital part of the fabric of this nation.

But the radicals haven’t taken this defeat lying down. After the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which made marriage equality the law of the land, the radicals pounced. “You got what you want,” they seemed to say. “Now it’s our turn.” LGBT rights organizations, either under the influence of impatient extremists or in an attempt to stay relevant (i.e., donor-worthy), refocused their missions to a form of revolutionary activism that purports to fight on behalf of trans people but in practice agitates for a revolt against Enlightenment ideals, liberalism, capitalism, and even basic biology.

Every LGBT organization seemingly became an extension of a university Gender Studies department, whose purpose was not to produce new knowledge but to interrogate — or, in their academic lingo, queer — existing knowledge which they spuriously associate with “whiteness”, colonialism, and Western patriarchy. Alongside this, a new social hierarchy of disadvantage was erected, where everyone was in competition to be the most “marginalized” — and therefore deserving of resources, a voice, and power in the revolutionaries’ value system. According to that value system, being gay or bi seemed to matter far less if one were also white, cis, and male, and therefore deemed to be in cahoots with the oppressors.

In 2017, while I was a student at Columbia University, I interned for GLAAD, one of the largest LGBT organizations in the US. Not only had their mission absorbed this new orthodoxy, it had filtered down to the interpersonal level. On campus and at GLAAD’s offices, I was regularly called “cis” in a kind of sneering, vitriolic tone that reminded me more than a little of the bullies who called me “fag” in middle school. The oddest thing was that much of the vitriol was coming from people who didn’t seem to be LGB, or even T, but who identified only as nonbinary or “queer.” Many of the people I encountered seemed to be profoundly homophobic. Any gay or bi man that didn’t at least adopt he/they pronouns, especially if they were white, was considered assimilationist, right-wing, traitorous upholders of the evil sex binary.

I never quite got used to being eyed with suspicion by other activists for my normative, gender-conforming appearance, or the constant bad-faith interpretations of anything I said. The only cis white gays spared this unfairly cold treatment were the ones who made a public show of being self-hating — the ones who renounced their “cis white gayness” and frequently apologized for their white privilege.

It was alarming to be on the receiving end of such vitriol simply for being myself — for not shaving one side of my head, painting my nails, piercing my septum, and adopting plural pronouns. It was alarming especially because so much of the hate I received when I was young came precisely because I was way too sex-nonconforming (in fact, in middle school, my classmates would often ask me if I was a boy or a girl). I wondered if my peers cared that I had been mercilessly bullied as a gay kid, or that I had worked on a trans rights anti-discrimination campaign when they were barely teenagers. I knew that my volunteering for marriage equality wouldn’t earn me any points, since marriage was to them an antiquated Western institution and part of an “assimilationist” agenda. This attitude has become so entrenched in LGBT activist spaces, I suspect it partially explains why support for same-sex marriage among Gen Z Americans has dropped from 80% in 2021 to only 69% in 2023.

Last year, I got a little more clarity about this issue when I came across an article, also written in 1994, by Stephen H. Miller. The publishing journal, Heterodoxy, titled it “Gay-Bashing by Homosexuals,” although Miller’s original title was “Gay White Males: PC’s Unseen Target.” In the late 1980s and early 90s, Miller chaired the media committee of GLAAD’s New York chapter. In fact, Miller came up with GLAAD’s mission statement, which was to “fight for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of gay and lesbian lives in the media and elsewhere.” In the article, Miller wrote that he was “purged” from GLAAD in 1992 because he objected to the rising political correctness and censoriousness in the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement. Similar to the cultural shifts of the past decade, Miller recounts how activist organizations began prioritizing race and gender (and of course, the Correct political views) over individual merit. New staff members had to attend “endless sensitivity sessions” which “identified white men (whatever their sexual orientation) as the oppressor class.” Suddenly, it seemed like there was more antagonism towards the “white males” within the LGBT rights movement than without. Miller, who described himself as a “political moderate who believed in dialogue with the straight world and a good-faith search for common ground,” found himself “shunned.”

The race and gender quotas that LGBT rights organizations began adopting, Miller wrote, included weighted voting that favored women and people of color. For example, after regional delegations of organizers for the 1993 March on Washington for LGB rights failed to achieve their quotas, it was decided that women’s votes would count for three votes apiece and non-white votes would count for two votes apiece. That decision — and the many others that have since followed in LGBT activist spaces — calls to mind some dark and creepy moments from American history best learned from rather than imitated.

Of course, this also raises the question: Who decides who is a person of color and who is white, and how? Will they apply the one-drop rule, the early 20th-century legal principle that deemed any American with even one black ancestor (“one drop of black blood”) as black? I suppose that would be illegal since the Supreme Court outlawed the one-drop rule in its 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision. And yet, I’m not surprised by these backward tactics. It was Ibram X. Kendi who recently wrote, “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” Around and around we go.

Then as now, as Miller wrote, anyone who challenged this illiberal orthodoxy was “deemed racist and sexist” and accused of harboring the belief that “white men are the main victims of discrimination.” Naturally, Miller notes, such accusations serve to discourage people who sense this hostility toward gay white men from voicing their dissent.

Then after AIDS decimated gay and bi male activist communities, lesbian radical feminists moved in, and a “critical attitude toward men, male sexuality, and ‘the patriarchy’” became the norm. “Male solidarity, once a hallmark of gay liberation, is now anathema.”

A direct line can be drawn from this upheaval in the early 1990s and the divisiveness in today’s LGBT activist spaces, where “cis gays” — and, in particular, “cis white gays” — are seen as upholders of villainous Western cisheteropatriarchy and its henchman capitalism. These modern activists are sure to include “white” not only out of an animus against white people, but because they assume that all people of color are helpless victims of Western capitalism who, because of their oppression, invariably hold the “correct” far-left politics. In his aforementioned article, Kushner invoked Oscar Wilde, quoting “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.” He added that he is “always suspicious of the glacier-paced patience of the right.” Writing for The Advocate, the gay writer Bruce Bawer responded that he and so many others are “impatient with models of activism that involve playing at revolution instead of focusing on the serious work of reform.”

This anti-“cis white gay” attitude proliferates in LGBT media as well. “White Gay Men Are Hindering Our Progress as a Queer Community” was the title of an article published in the magazine Them. “You had your time — now, we have other things to fight for,” read the subhead. “Let's Talk About People That Aren't Young Cis White Gay Men,” a HuffPost article was titled.

I could go on and on.

A few years ago, I attended a conference for LGBT journalists. There, I met a young, white, gay writer who would go on to work for a progressive news outlet in New York. He said his upbringing in a Southern state had made him racist, but since then, he has “trained” himself to be attracted to black and brown people, and now black and brown people are the only types of people he wants to sleep with.

If this is the “progressive” strategy for combating racism, I want no part of it. And any liberal cis white gay person who opposes racism won’t either. This is racism, operating under the guise of “anti-racism”, plain and simple. It attempts to end inequality by inverting it and, in the process, is attacking the foundations of the principles that have enabled the remarkable progress our society has made in transcending bigotry and prejudice. I only wish more people who saw this dogma for what it is were unafraid to voice the truth about it.

Homophobia and anti-gay hate are alive and well as progressive virtues.

#Ben Appel #woke homophobia #homophobia 2.0 #anti male #anti gay #homophobia #anti white #anti gay hate #intersectional feminism #religion is a mental illness

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humanrightsupdates · 8 months ago

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It Is Our Moral Calling to Stand With Wrongly Imprisoned Russian Playwright and Director

Today, May 4, marks one year since Russian theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk were arrested. The two women, thrown behind bars on bogus charges of publically “justifying terrorism” and spreading its propaganda over an award-winning play they staged together, are facing up to seven years in prison. Though the case against them was moved to trial in April, the first hearing has been pushed back to October at the earliest.

Earlier this spring, Berkovich and Petriychuk were put on the government’s list of “terrorists and extremists,” blocking them from drawing any funds from their bank accounts, except 10,000 rubles – just over $90 – per month for basic necessities. Russian law allows this measure to be used against anyone convicted or merely suspected of terrorism or extremism-related crimes.

Many journalists and commentators suggest that the absurd case against her and Petriychuk is in retaliation for Berkovich’s bold and compelling condemnation of the war in a series of poems she wrote shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. After all, Berkovich first directed a public reading of the play in 2019. It even won the prestigious Golden Mask prize in 2022, just a few months into the invasion. But it would take another year for law enforcement to raise any issues about the play. During that time, Berkovich’s defiant poems grew in number and visibility.

The health of Berkovich’s two children has reportedly deteriorated in the course of their forced separation from her. Berkovich’s 89-year-old grandmother, the prominent writer and rights activist Nina Karteli, died seven months after her arrest.

The play, Finist the Bright Falcon, which the authorities accused of propagating and justifying terrorism, is focused on Russian women being lured into ISIS and other militant Islamist organizations by online recruiters offering to marry them. The author and director were attempting to understand and explain the reasons many women across Russia are vulnerable to ISIS recruiters.

#russia #amnesty international #human rights

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studyingsocialjustice · 2 years ago

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can you give any theatre/acting related advice that you have learnt through your studies as a theatre major? thanks

Anon I am SO sorry - this ask is from a year ago and I literally JUST saw this and I have absolutely no idea how that happened. I hope that you are still following me and will see this!

EDIT from May 2023: Haha. Oops. This ask is now from maybe like two years ago? Possibly almost three? I genuinely don't know. But I am so sorry that it's taken so long. I remember exactly what I was doing while typing my original response to this: I was folding laundry and trying to get ready to move back in to school, and I was procrastinating doing the folding by typing my response to this, and then my parents came in and were like "why aren't you folding laundry" and I remember saying to myself that I would come back to this ask and then I never did. But you probably don't care about that much, so here we go:

My top three things I have learned, in order:

Number One: Script analysis is everything. It will help you connect to and understand your character, it will help you to connect to and understand the world of the play - it is the foundation for understanding everything. Look at the historical context of when the play was written and where it stands in the playwright's repertoire chronologically. Look at word choice. Look at how the characters interact with each other. My favorite books I recommend for this are A Practical Handbook for the Actor by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, etc. and Backwards and Forwards by David Ball. I read these books in my senior year of high school, so four years ago now, and I still use their methodology for all of my script analysis. Their methods are incredibly useful and I highly highly recommend reading them. B&F was also required reading for my Script Analysis course at my university this year, and it is still just as useful. The books are old enough that they aren't too expensive to buy, and you could probably also find copies online, though I'm not sure of that.

Two: One of the best, and in my opinion most accessible methods of script analysis (especially if you don't want to read a whole book) is the Question Words Method: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? This works for monologues as well as general script analysis, and is usually applied to one character at a time.

For monologues: Who is speaking? Who are they speaking to? What are they trying to achieve by speaking? Where are they while they're talking? When in the course of the story is this happening? Why are they talking about this now? Why not later, why not sooner? To quote one acting teacher I had, why are they opening their mouth? And finally, how are they going about getting what they want? What tactics are they using, what's their word choice? What actions are they taking as they speak?

For characters: Who are they? This includes, name, title, relationships, basic biographical information. What do they want? What is their goal throughout this story? Where does this story take place? When? For a particular scene, where and when does that scene take place (general setting) and when in the course of the story does it take place? Why do they want whatever it is that they want? And how are they working to achieve it?

The most essential part of this, in my opinion, is what does the character want, and how they are going about achieving that. It's the objective and the tactics.

Three: This comes from one of my professors from this past school year. There is this idea in the world of theatre that if there's anything else you can see yourself doing, you should go do that because acting is only for people who can see themselves doing nothing else and just really really want it. Which is stupid because just because you might be able to imagine yourself taking a different career path doesn't mean you would be happy doing it. So, from my professor: "If you could see yourself doing anything else, do this anyway, because it's better." Again: If you could see yourself doing anything else, do this anyway, because it's better. If this is what you love, who cares about what else you could be doing? Do the thing that is fulfilling and makes you happy. It doesn't matter if other people think that it isn't a good career or won't make you enough money. If this is what you love, do it, because it's better than anything else.

I sincerely hope that this advice was helpful to you! Again, I'm so sorry that it's taken me so long to answer your ask; time unfortunately is not my friend and I've had a lot of - for lack of a better word - bullshit happen to me this year. Best of luck going forward, and please know that although it may sometimes take me a while to respond, my inbox is always open! I love giving advice, and am always happy to provide it!

#anonymous #answered #theatre major #theater major #theatre advice #theater advice #acting advice #script analysis #backwards and forwards #practical handbook for the actor #zoe gives advice #zoe speaks

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docpiplup · 1 year ago

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If you are in Madrid and you're looking for any cultural activities to do during weekends, let me tell you about Rutas teatrales. It's a very good group that organise themed guided routes around Madrid, among other things, mainly about writers and artists from 19 th and 20th centuries: Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Federico García Lorca, María Teresa León, Maruja Mallo, Margarita Manso, Margarita Xirgu, Concha Méndez, Josefina de la Torre...

Guided and dramatized tours: The Madrid of Lorca; Las Sinsombrero and Lorca; The Summer Theatres; World Theater Day; Galdós, a playwright in Madrid; Doña Emilia

Spectator School (videos): The History of Theatre Pavón: Theatre in New York; Discover María Guerrero; Discovering Federico García Lorca; Theatre in Buenos Aires; How to write a play; Presents! Women in the city; Meetings with artists;The Madrid of Galdós; Theatre in London; Benilde de Patricia Suárez; Discovering Victorina Durán

Theatrical outings: Independent Theater Route; New Dramaturgies Route; Lorca Route

Online courses: Lorca and his theatre

#rutas teatrales #plans #madrid #guided tours #federico garcía lorca #benito pérez galdós #emilia pardo bazán #las sinsombrero #maría teresa león #maruja mallo #margarita manso #margarita xirgu #concha méndez #josefina de la torre

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anniekoh · 2 years ago

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elsewhere on the internet: cancel culture, tech ideologies and more, per adrian daub

Literary scholar Adrian Daub wrote a thorough debunking of Stanford’s latest “cancel culture” kerfuffle on “banning” the word American.

Also have really been enjoying Daub’s 2020 book What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley.*

From the intro: “This is a book about the history of ideas in a place that likes to pretend its idea don’t have any history.”

From page 74: “The genius aesthetic that rules the tech industry relies again and again on this purely gestural kind of courage, on hyping everyday things into grand acts of nonconformism and even resistance.”

From page 86: “Silicon Valley has a habit of pretending to have a debate when in fact desiring no such thing. One version of this is reflected in the infamous ‘Google memo’ that James Damore uploaded.

There’s a delightful close reading of Ayn Rand’s “funhouse version of capitalist society“ (p 61) / “an economic system dreamed up by Borges” in which the “all-powerful architectural critic (yes you read that right) Ellsworth Toohey who is a Marxist and also in league with monopoly capitalists and also beloved by the populace, schemes to take over Gail Wynand’s newspaper on the strength of (and I’m not making this up) his writing a column in it.”

* Though there is a now anachronistic, overly kind to Musk aside on the “billionaire’s sense of responsibility to others and planet.”

Other helpful posts on Daub’s Substack (note that the German version is first, the English translation comes second)

Ein paar Überlegungen zu Cancel Culture Transfer (on their new book)

there is a mini-genre of Starbucks-related anecdotes that in fact almost seem like cancel anecdotes, but almost never appear in the context of cancel culture discussions (in Germany, as far as I could see, they do not appear at all ). These are incidents in which police officers in restaurants in the United States are (or claim to have been) the target of abuse or disrespect from staff — it’s not clear which, often testimony stands against testimony in such cases. Even though of course these incidents are clearly concerned with freedom of expression (of which we are told that we have to tolerate it, “even if” it is repugnant, objectionable or whatever), even though the case is amplified by an outraged response from the public (particularly online), even though the employer usually panics and just goes ahead and fires the employee(s) in question: in spite of all of this, these aren’t usually treated as episodes of “cancellation.”

Macht es was aus, dass es ein Sandwich war?

Does it matter that it was a freaking sandwich? "You've definitely heard of silly stories like this," playwright, novelist and PEN President Ayad Akhtar told his audience at the Festsaal Kreuzber on December 2. "Students at Oberlin College protested that sushi was being served in their university cafeteria." It was a bánh mì, not sushi. And the story is almost ten years old. And it wasn't about cultural appropriation. And the story turns out to be incorrect.

Maybe none of that is super important. But with exactly two examples, at least in the (according to the newspaper “slightly abridged”) speech text that was published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the fact that one of the two is wrong feels sort of relevant. In my book Cancel Culture Transfer I try to show that the sloppiness of these anecdotes represents something of a hermeneutic alliance between the author and a certain reader/listener. I'm sure you've heard of this made-up story, Akhtar told his audience. I'll tell it to you again, of course without googling it first. Speaker and listeners gather around a fiction as though around a warming campfire – that can of course be the role of the writer, but perhaps not when he sets out to provide facts.

I take no pleasure in having to dissect Akhtar's text here. I'm generally a big fan of his writing, Homeland Elegies was one of my favorite books during the pandemic years. But maybe that's also important here: when Akhtar is good, he's tremendous. But for topics like this, he is … not tremendous. He doesn't have to be. That's part of the genre. In recent weeks, many interviewers have asked me incredulously whether I really think all the cancel culture Cassandras, many of them luminaries (Peter Sloterdijk! Anne Applebaum! Josef Joffe! Frank Fukuyama!), are “that stupid”. No, I do not think that. I'm friends with some of them — and find much of their other work good, or at least interesting. But what I do think is this: once they sound off about Twitter shitstorms, “woke mobs” and so on, they're almost never doing their best work. Or their best thinking. The same goes for Akhtar. He didn't google the case in Oberlin because it didn't matter. Such gestures of casualness are not a by-product, but rather the beating heart of this discourse, and they seem to infect anyone who ventures into its shallows: look, this kind of text says, I don't even have to bother.

My strategy in Cancel Culture Transfer was simple: I did bother. You don't have to follow my analysis at every point, but I hope you've learned something from reading the book even when you don’t. And you don't get that with a text like Akhtar's — at least I don't think so. So in my next few posts, I'm going to do a few close readings of Cancel Culture articles in the German press, how they function, and why I think they're grounded in a hermeneutics of sloppiness that tells readers: don't worry too much about the facts.

Two more from Daub

Here at the End of All Things : On losing oneself in the geography of fantasy worlds, from Middle Earth to Westeros (Longread, Aug 2017)

The technolibertarian crossover of Germany’s would be kaiser (NY Mag, 2022)

#technology #cancel culture #libertarian #silicon valley

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jpt1311 · 2 years ago

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Eden of the East _ part 2

There is one extraordinarily awkward flaw in the logic that I can't help but question the playwright's common sense. Tomahawks are cruise missiles specifically designed to attack fixed ground or naval targets. They are slow and sluggish, with almost zero anti-air capabilities. I used almost here because if fitted with nuclear warheads with enough yield, they could create a blast radius large enough to bring down aircraft, but Japan has no such warheads.

However, the playwright still designed a plot that specifically mentioned using fake aircraft signals to provoke the missile carriers to launch missiles that are used for ground targets and ground targets only. Considering the internet and graphical user interfaces such as browsers should have been around in 2010, searching for data online should have been easy. The presence of such an obvious error could only prove that the playwright, who is not even able to use the internet to search for basic information about his work, attempted to write about NEETs with his unquestionably heavy stereotype of this social group. There is, but of course, another explanation, which is that the author does not care about logic at all in his work, treating all viewers who attempt to analyze his work logically as imbeciles.

Also, Tomahawks are precise ordnances unsuitable for striking large cities. Instead, to yield the most significant outcome, large quantities of unguided iron bombs, fuel gas ordnances, or even artillery are obviously more suitable choices. Finally, these characters, who are likely supposed to be villains, are not even equipped with the correct knowledge to commit the holocaust they are supposed to be able to, making them appear as nothing but pathetic losers instead of the twisted social elites the playwright probably intended them to be.

Finally, the author probably still depicts some social facts around his era, which is that phones in Japan at that moment still had quite a few buttons attached to them and were not quite popular, so seeing phones as an essential piece of hardware is still a stereotype which the others in the society assigned to the NEETs as their characteristic. Yet merely twelve years passed, and phones have become quite crucial to everyday folks as they are depicted to be to the NEETs in the playwright's mind.

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Top Playwright Features Every Automation Tester Should Know

PlayWright Automation Training the rapidly evolving world of automation testing, staying updated with the latest tools is essential. One such tool gaining immense popularity is Playwright. If you're considering mastering it, PlayWright Course Online is an excellent starting point. Playwright offers a versatile and robust framework for end-to-end testing of web applications, and it has quickly become a go-to tool for testers due to its unique and advanced features. Let's explore the top features of Playwright that every automation tester should know.

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One of the most powerful features of Playwright is its ability to support cross-browser testing seamlessly. With just a few lines of code, testers can execute tests across multiple browsers like Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. This feature eliminates the need for separate configurations for different browsers, saving time and ensuring consistency. Learning how to leverage this functionality through PlayWright Course Online is essential for those aiming to become proficient in automation testing.

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Another standout feature of Playwright is its capability for network interception and debugging. Testers can simulate network conditions, such as slow connections or server failures, to validate the behavior of applications under adverse scenarios. This feature also allows for API mocking, making it easier to test functionalities that depend on external services. Understanding how to utilize these capabilities through PlayWright Automation Training is crucial for those working on projects involving extensive API integrations.

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For teams practicing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), Playwright is a perfect fit. It integrates effortlessly with popular CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps. Automation testers can set up Playwright tests to run automatically on every code change, ensuring that the application maintains high-quality standards throughout development. This ability to integrate testing into the development pipeline is a key focus of PlayWright Training, enabling testers to adopt modern DevOps practices effectively.

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Embracing the English Language: A Global Connector

English is more than just a language; it is a global connector that bridges cultures and communities across the world.

As one of the most widely spoken languages, English serves as a primary or secondary language for millions, playing a crucial role in international communication, business, education, and travel.

The History of English

The English language has a rich and varied history that reflects the influences of different cultures. Originating from the Germanic tribes that invaded England in the 5th century, English has evolved over centuries, absorbing vocabulary and grammatical structures from Latin, Norse, and French.

The Norman Conquest in 1066 significantly impacted the language, leading to a fusion of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French, which laid the foundation for Middle English.

By the late 15th century, the introduction of the printing press helped standardize English, leading to the Early Modern English period, which saw the works of great playwrights like William Shakespeare and poets like John Milton. Today, English continues to evolve, adapting to new cultural influences and technological advancements.

English as a Global Language

With over 1.5 billion speakers worldwide, English has established itself as a global lingua franca. It is the primary language of international business and diplomacy, often used in multinational corporations and organizations.

Knowledge of English opens doors to numerous opportunities, allowing individuals to connect with others and participate in global conversations.

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The impact of English extends beyond mere communication; it shapes cultures and identities around the world. English-language media, including films, music, and literature, have a significant influence on global culture.

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Learning English

Learning English can be a rewarding experience, providing access to a wealth of resources and opportunities. With various methods available, from traditional classrooms to online courses and language exchange programs, learners can choose the approach that best suits their needs.

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Conclusion

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Maximizing Your Selenium Expertise: Key Strategies for Advancing Your Career

As the landscape of software testing and automation continues to evolve, Selenium remains a fundamental tool for many tech professionals. Its capability to automate web applications makes it a highly desirable skill. Embracing Selenium’s capabilities becomes even more accessible and impactful with Selenium Training in Pune.

However, the question of whether mastering Selenium alone will suffice to land a job is multifaceted. To truly excel in the job market, it’s important to expand your skill set and understand the broader requirements of potential employers. Here’s a guide to leveraging your Selenium skills effectively to enhance your career prospects.

1. Understanding Employer Expectations

Securing a role in software testing or automation involves more than just proficiency in Selenium. To meet and exceed job requirements, consider the following:

Programming Skills: Selenium operates with various programming languages such as Java, Python, and C#. Competency in these languages is often crucial as it allows you to write and manage test scripts effectively. Strong programming skills will help you make the most of Selenium and tackle complex testing scenarios.

Additional Testing Tools: Many job descriptions seek familiarity with other testing frameworks and tools. Experience with frameworks like TestNG, JUnit, or Cucumber can complement your Selenium expertise and enhance your ability to develop comprehensive testing solutions.

CI/CD Integration: Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices is increasingly important. Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI shows that you can integrate test automation into the software development pipeline, improving efficiency and reliability.

2. Keeping Up with Industry Developments

The tech industry is rapidly advancing, and staying current with trends is vital for career growth. Here’s how to remain competitive:

Exploring Complementary Tools: While Selenium is powerful, expanding your expertise to include other automation tools can broaden your skill set. Tools like Appium for mobile testing or Playwright for next-generation web applications can make you a more versatile candidate.

Understanding the Technological Ecosystem: A comprehensive grasp of the broader tech ecosystem is beneficial. Familiarize yourself with version control systems (such as Git), test management platforms (like JIRA), and Agile methodologies to demonstrate your ability to work effectively within various development environments. To unlock the full potential of Selenium and master the art of web automation, consider enrolling in the Top Selenium Online Training.

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Practical experience with Selenium is crucial for demonstrating your capabilities. Here’s how to build and showcase your experience:

Real-World Applications: Apply your Selenium skills through practical projects, whether through internships, freelance opportunities, or personal projects. Showcasing how you’ve used Selenium to address real-world challenges can significantly enhance your resume.

Certifications and Courses: Pursuing certifications and additional training in Selenium and test automation can strengthen your qualifications. Certifications from recognized organizations or completing specialized courses can validate your skills and commitment to ongoing professional development.

4. Developing a Well-Rounded Skill Set

To make the most of your Selenium expertise, it’s important to cultivate a diverse skill set:

Effective Communication: Strong communication skills are essential for collaborating with teams, understanding project requirements, and conveying test results clearly. Developing these skills can enhance your overall effectiveness and improve your job prospects.

Networking and Industry Engagement: Building a professional network can open doors to new opportunities and provide valuable industry insights. Participate in industry events, engage in online communities, and connect with other professionals to stay informed and find potential job leads.

Conclusion: A Holistic Approach to Career Advancement

Selenium is a powerful tool in test automation, but leveraging it effectively to advance your career requires more than just technical proficiency. By complementing your Selenium skills with additional knowledge, practical experience, and a well-rounded skill set, you can enhance your job prospects and stand out in a competitive field. Embrace these strategies to fully harness your expertise and propel your career in software testing and automation.

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