#required academic writing

[doomdoomofdoom]

Apparently there's currently discussion in science (humanities in particular) about whether video essays could be accepted as academic writing on par with the academic papers we currently have

I think that's awesome as fuck tbh

[dailykafka]

Was kafka really a zionist?

First, I feel like I have to mention that the modern day zionism (which is used as propaganda that serves Israel) is very different from what it was in its starting days. Europe's rising antisemitism in 20th century made jewish life impossible there and a seperate Jewish state was a last chance for jews to survive.

Fun fact! Did you know that Israel was supposed to be in Africa but other european colonisers didn't want another major power in Africa?

Back to Kafka. When Zionist movement was just starting in Europe Kafka was quite fascinated by it. He was close friends with some very devout zionists in his late twenties, went to lectures and seminars and was close with the movement. But over the years Kafka changed his views, he disagreed with the movement on various issues and he distanced himself from it mainly because he did not share their idea about creating a seperate jewish state in middle east.

Kafka often spoke of immigrating to Palestine but ultimately for him it didn't solve the "jewish problem" (he didn't think packing up and settling somewhere else would bring true peace for jews). Kafka was more concerned about the lives of jews in Europe and how they could have lived peacefully in Europe (he states very clearly in diaries and letters too that he didn't want to leave home and go somewhere else).

So shortly, Kafka shared zionists' sentiments of protecting jews from discrimination in Europe but he was against forming a jewish state in middle east.

Also a bit off the topic but the way Israel for years has tried to literally trap Kafka's works in Israel and has worked on creating the myth of "zionist Kafka" is worth taking note of. The legal battle over Franz Kafka's work and to whom it belongs has been very messy. I have seen couple of times Israel trying to portray Kafka as if he belongs to Israel just because he is jewish. I doubt Kafka would approve of this.

[ckret2]

Me: am i expecting too much from the readers by having large parts of the underlying plot rely on allusions to both flatland AND plato's cave, AND having half a chapter spun off of the legitimate scientific theory that the universe might be a projection. maybe i should dial back the references to college-level academic writings.

Also me: *has bill make a quip about the body rituals of the nacirema when pacifica's talking about makeup*

[gun-chucks]

HI, I WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED TO READ YOUR PAPER (when its finished i mean. hope its going well, i wish you the smooth writing flow of a wordsmith and many easily accessible relevant references)

so! sorry this took forever but the paper is done and has been done since may- here u go

[alackofghosts]

trying to write in estonian: i miss pronouns and prepositions so much :(

trying to translate from estonian: having to add pronouns and prepositions is really cramping my style :(

[liesonthefloordramatically]

tired of having a gender at work; I don't want my colleagues to perceive me anymore

[studentbyday]

y'know how they say an academic writing sample can be something like an undergrad thesis or journal article? but if a journal article has many authors, how do they know which part you contributed to? or do they just want the part of the article you wrote for the sample? sadly i don't have the option to do an undergrad thesis, so i won't have something that was purely/mostly my own to give...

[punch-love]

🖍️🛠️❤️

🖍Post Any sentence from your wip

It’s innocuous, it seems, the little leather journal tucked underneath a stack of dusty folders in the third drawer. Loki almost passes over it, but there’s something about the excessive wear that makes him curious. There is very little wear in a place like the TVA. 

Everything is crisp and impossibly maintained here. There’s no dust in the corners, no mildew in the showers, nothing that communicates that time has passed here, because it doesn’t. The journal, however, looks ancient.

Loki pulls it graceless out of its drawer and kicks it shut with his foot as he cracks it open. 

COLLECTED NOTES ON LOKI LAUFEYSON

by MOBIUS M. MOBIUS 

It’s pure, undiluted glee that spreads through him. His head feels light, a little giddy and - strangely, a hint of discomfort. Loki has read his file, watched his tapes, and still, this book feels like an invasion of his privacy in the way that he was sure the TVA had numbed him too. It’s the secondary line, though, that makes his stomach flip. 

SPECIFIC FOCUS: Variant L1130

This, is not an overview on all Lokis across the timelines. This is a dissection of him. 

🛠Is there a scene or anything in the WIP you are struggling with right now?

I'm struggling with all of my WIPs right now, but off the top of my head the one I just posted the excerpt for requires me to write dissertation notes on Loki that are both clinical and barely suppressed horny and I don't think I really processed how much work that was going to be when I sat down to write a fic that is just titled "desk sex".

[horny-ex-catholic]

HELLO, I AM NOT DEAD, BUT I HAVE MANY FINAL PROJECTS AND WILL BE MILDLY INCOHERENT FOR THE NEXT 2-3 WEEKS

[mantisgodsdomain]

We should post our Vaugardian Marigold writing for Time Stop Resistance AU at some point but we haven't played enough of the game to be fully confident in publically releasing it especially since one of the things we've written for it involves Odile characterization we are not yet 100% confident in as we haven't fully seen her under pressure yet

[kaurwreck]

If enough Kira worshipers demand for his release, even going as far as continue to making serious threat towards the goverment until they do, would Light be released? What are potential of him being released at all? I imagine Kira worshipers purposely making it difficult for anyone after the revelation

There are cultural, procedural, and common sense reasons why Japan's correctional organs would not be compelled to release a mass murderer with a preternatural capacity for serial killing who sought to destroy the social order to satisfy his god complex based on threats made by such mass murderer's riotous cult.

This isn't to say Kira worshippers wouldn't influence Light's sentencing. I'm sure they would since Japanese courts take into account the impact of a convicted person's crime(s) on Japanese society when determining whether the death penalty is appropriate, and instigating civil unrest that threatens national security constitutes a comically deleterious impact on Japanese society.

This also presumes a public and transparent process, but even where the circumstances aren't nearly so extraordinary, Japanese criminal proceedings are not terribly transparent. For example:

From the moment of arrest, prosecutors may strictly limit access to defendants; even defense counsel and family are often barred from contact.

Defense counsel has the right to request access to evidence the prosecutor uses in court, but the prosecution can withhold all other evidence. Further, defense counsel is only permitted to use disclosed evidence to prepare for trial, and cannot disclose information obtained during pre-trial discovery (including to the public).

Japan's constitution mandates open courts, but this does not extend to criminal court records, which are controlled by prosecutors and, if published, anonymized.

Japan’s death penalty law requires that executions must be carried out quietly and without public notice. Death-sentenced prisoners are kept in strict solitary confinement and monitored by 24-hour surveillance cameras. Prisoners are informed just one hour before their sentence is carried out, so their families and defense lawyers only learn about the execution after the fact.

Japanese prosecutors exercise immense discretion based on an opaque system of internal deliberation and consensus and, are substantially insulated from public scrutiny. This doesn't mean they're never influenced by the public, but its rare, and relatively weak.

tl;dr: (1) serious threats to a national government by fringe cultists are not usually a compelling criminal defense, but can be used to justify harsher sentencing; (2) there is 0 potential of Light being released if arrested, but very high potential for Ryuk becoming bored and killing Light before the Japanese government can get around to it. Which, isn't not canonically what happened.

[allbeendonebefore]

feeling very ick and sore and since i cant concentrate anyway i have devoted my last bit of energy to constructing a playlist i have called Eurotrash!! (Affectionate) in order to consolidate my turn of the millennium international pop/dance music and i think if i press play on it there's a high chance it might restore some hp

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

it’s contemplating if i should change my major even though i’m graduating in december hours….. again

[gibbearish]

are we really back to "oh you support (blank)? name ten people who (do/are) that right now or else youre lying for allyship points and everything you have to say should be disregarded". i thought we left that back in like. 2012 misogynist nerdbro culture

[pottedfairies]

i DO play favorites when i teach btw im not above that im petty & some students r simply better

[fuck-em-up-your-grace]

Academia is so left-wing until you actually have to read research papers and then it’s just 20 different papers on why colonization was okay