#subsense

[manizd]

"Fear of Future"

Fear of Future Forged my soul Storming up and down Sabotaging all subsenses Unending rain Unveiled all confidences Paralyzed pixelations Pacified inner doubts Slithering seducers Scattered all the visions Tied up on bars and pillars Traversing for hope Looking up to the hill Where my help comes from.

[4chanmusic]

https://soundcloud.com/crucible-3/subsense-privace

[yandere-daydreams]

Consider yandere dollmaker. Coming into your room at night to cut off some of your hair to glue it to the doll of you. Stealing your clothes to put them on your replica. They spend hours making as many versions of you as they can. They even treat the dolls as your stand in, kissing and bathing the cold porcelain.

I went with a more direct route, for this, but I hope it’s still up to your standards. There’s nothing more fitting than a controlling Yandere treating their lovely little Darling like their own, personal doll, after all.

Title: Handcrafted.

TW: Implied Kidnapping, Bondage, Blood and Delusional Mindsets.

~

They expected you to get along with it. 

That was the worst part, they expected you to like it.

The doll was well crafted, you’d give your captor that. Its eyes were unnerving, unblinking and always staring, but they’d been painted on with a certain degree of care, gifted with too much detail not to seem hauntingly life-like. You’d been forced to keep it company for weeks, by now, but there had never been a moment when its hair wasn’t perfectly styled, its outfit unwrinkled and every inch of its porcelain skin more immaculate than it’d been the day before. It looked like you, shared a hair color and a body shape and, at one point, a name, but it wasn’t you. It was heartless. Inhuman. An impostor that demanded your loathing.

It was wrong, and there was nothing you could do about it.

Not unless you wanted Drew to ensure you shared in its fate, too.

You couldn’t be sure how long they’d been gone. It felt like hours, it was probably hours, but there was no way of telling time, not in the concrete, windowless hell you’d found yourself a hostage of. You might’ve found a way to occupy yourself if you’d been able to, gone looking for something to pass the time, but a series of complicated knots and meters of rough, braided rope kept you bound to the same unforgiving antique chair, your wrists raw from struggling and your back sore from the upright position you were forced to maintain. The space was otherwise unoccupied, save for a table with a handful of abandoned teacups and another chair, this one housing your miniature doppelganger.

Sometimes, you had to wonder if Drew loved it more than they claimed to love you. It wasn’t that you were neglected, no, that would’ve been much more tolerable than the eager treatment you actually received, but you were a living creature that had to be sustained. It was not, but Drew showered it in the same love and attention they showed to you. If anything, they were more careful with their oh-so-beloved doll, considering the bruises around your neck they hadn’t felt the need to mirror on your supposed twin.

You didn’t have much time to linger on the subject, a metal-plated door on the far wall swinging open, scraping against the barren floor as it did so. Automatically, you bowed your head, staring down into your lap as quick, soft footsteps began to approach, accompanied by an incomprehensible greeting and a sudden presence behind you, their entry only made more undeniable by the pair of lean arms abruptly wrapped around your shoulders, pulling you back and allowing them to better melt into the crook of your neck. “I missed you,” Drew sighed, their voice much calmer than it’d been a moment or two ago. It wasn’t surprising, they’d always been one for theatrics. “I’m sorry, I’ve been in the workshop all day. I should’ve been more attentive… you’re not mad at me, are you?”

You knew what you were supposed to say. They never failed to ask after your comfort, but you’d learned not to complain, not if your suffering was any fault of theirs. They said they didn’t care for ‘negativity’, and you’d been locked in your room long enough to testify to that. “I’m not.”

There was a giggle, light and airy, a playful squeeze to your bicep, and without further probing, they began to undo your restraints, starting with those keeping your arms pinned down. Your fingertips were far past numb, but you did your best to move them, to curl your fists and drive your nails into the ancient, splintering wood. The idea of freedom did little to inspire hope, though. Your prison was a maze, made up of too many locked doors and never-ending hallways to ever escape without a proper guide. If Drew trusted you with the smallest bit of liberty, it only meant they intended to take you to another holding cell. It hadn’t taken you long to learn that most rooms you were allowed to see were equally unpleasant, if not worse than the one you’d just left. 

If Drew noticed your dread, they didn’t feel the need to indulge it. Rather, a thin, careless smile was pressed against your knuckles as they moved around you, undoing the last of what held your left arm in place. You didn’t waste any time pulling away from the gesture, tucking your hand between your thighs as they started on your ankles. “You must be exhausted, I know how hard it is to wait around for me. We’ll get you a bath, and then you’ll be free to get to bed. That sounds nice, right?”

“I’d really rather just go to bed,” You mumbled, the request barely loud enough to be heard. Bed meant sleeping, and sleeping meant you wouldn’t have to look at that thing for another eight hours. “I’m tired, Drew.”

There was a beat of silence. Another laugh, and another kiss, this one to the top of your knee. “It’s part of our routine, dear. It’ll only take a few minutes.”

You bit the inside of your cheek. “I just--”

“It’s part of our routine.” They were still smiling, but it was tense, now, as forced as it always was when you looked too closely. Instantly, you moved to take it back, pushing your shoulders forward as you opened your mouth, but Drew was already drawing attention to themself, leaning onto your legs and focusing those unwavering black eyes on you, for the first time since their initial entrance. “I’m trying to take care of you. It’d be easier if you cooperate, but if you’re going to be difficult…” They paused, taking a deep breath and throwing a glance somewhere over their shoulder. When they continued, their tone was infinitely less jovial, a subtle change that worried you more than any form of discipline they could’ve ever dulled out. “At least your friend knows how to behave--”

“Your doll is not my ‘friend’,” You spat, cutting them off without hesitation. For whatever reason, the reference of their thing, their abomination, their monster was what pushed you over the edge, your hatred for Drew and their little hobby boiling over before you could contain it. It was irrational, the worst thing you could do for yourself in a situation like this, and yet, as soon as you caught a glimpse of the atrocity sitting across from you… It was all you could do to keep yourself from lashing out physically. Containing yourself on a verbal level wasn’t an option. “It’s… it’s barely even me. I don’t know what kind of fucked-up fixation you have on that toy, but don’t make me a part of it. If it were up to me, I would’ve burnt it as soon as I--”

“That’s enough.” Their command wasn’t particularly loud, the words growled through grit teeth, but the long, pointed fingernails suddenly being driven into the flesh of your thighs was enough to make their point, tearing through skin swiftly and driving into unprotected meat, only stopping when hot, dark blood started to flow from the open wounds, Drew wincing in disgust before pulling away. Still, they didn’t make any move to wipe away the offending subsense, only narrowing their eyes at the open wounds as you did your best not to make a sound. “You’re an unruly, petulant brat. I want to be gentle, and I want you to be happy, but if you’re going to throw a tantrum and insult something I worked so hard to make for you… I don’t know if I can endure that kind of behavior, darling.”

You apologized. You apologized, and told them how generous they were and your damnedest to make it seem like you’d learned your lesson with a minimal amount of pain, but Drew only shook their head, sighing as they moved to stand.

“I’m not the one you need to apologize to,” They said, retrieving their doll and holding it with so much care, you could almost pretend it wasn’t your blood staining its clothes. 

Almost. 

“Clearly, there’s someone you need to spend a little more quality time with.”

[elenajohansenreads]

#33 - Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, by Kory Stamper

Mount TBR: 32/100

Beat the Backlist Bingo: A book I forgot I had

Rating: 5/5 stars

I have read a few books on the English language and its history. I've read even more about its foibles, its grammar and punctuation and general frustrations. I've even read a few books specifically about dictionary construction before, but this one takes the cake. (I wonder which subsense of "take" that idiom falls under? I'm sure Stamper could tell me, as that was one of her words, whose defining process was covered by an entire chapter.)

I don't think I've ever laughed out loud more when reading nonfiction, even through one of my many rereads of Bryson's Mother Tongue, which I think is fair to say was my previous high-water mark for the intersection of humor and informativeness in nonfiction about language. Bits of clever wordplay, fantastically hilarious turns of phrase, and the occasional well-placed reference to The Simpsons, and I'm sold.

As for the information it contains, I knew some of it (as I said, I'm not new to nonfiction about dictionaries) but this was a far more modern and internal viewpoint than others I've read, by someone working in the field now and not merely presenting research done about the process or its history. There's a bit of history here too--of all the chapters, the one about the history of dictionaries is the one I was probably least interested in, and my eyes might have glazed over once or twice--but the nitty-gritty, daily-life details of a lexicographer's existence, presented with humor and energy, more than make up for one chapter of the book being a little dry.

This is a somewhat niche interest that I can't recommend widely--it would bounce right off some readers with its jargon and specificity and attention to detail--but it's a real treat for absolute word nerds like me.

[rosieanimates]

Storyboard Ideas.

When approaching the process of creating a storyboard I have to consider a few things; I have to consider what I want to showcase in my animation, the principles I want to include and how much I can do in the time I have. 

Initial Idea 1:

One thing I know I want to showcase in my animation is my character’s personality and character traits. This storyboard shows a scene where my character is fighting with an alarm clock, as she doesn’t want to get up. I used a mixture of close-up shots and wide shots to show the posture of my character in bed and the main subject: the loud alarm clock. I think this would demonstrate staging as the scene is focused mainly on what I want the audience to see. In the scene, she repeatedly tries to hit the alarm clock to turn it off but keeps missing it and hitting the table instead. In turn this makes the clock jump-up and down on the table and role off. With this action I could demonstrate squash and stretch and/or ease in and ease out. As well as these principles I can use appeal in this animation through the expression and gestures my character makes. The other principle would be pose to pose because the movement in this storyboard would be easier to draw if I know what the next pose is, it would just be easier to produce and the flow would be smoother. 

I really like this storyboard, I think the full animation would look amazing and be effective in conveying my characters personality and appeal to the audience. However, I anticipate this idea taking a long time to finish as I don't have that much time left to make the animation. Thus, I have thought if other storyboard ideas.

Initial Idea 2:

My next idea is to show my character using the TDTS (Toad Departure Tube Station) as I have already done some environmental design for the setting of the TDTS. The animation would involve Lyra pressing the button and getting sucked in to the tube and then continuing to show a montage of her spiralling around in the tube. Within this animation I could showcase: squash and stretch, straight ahead and pose-to-pose, ease-in and ease-out, and staging. I like this one because it would allow some of Lyra’s world to be showed within the animation meaning that the viewers could be consumed in to her world and be more immersed. Considering time, I think I would have a make this animation or at least most of it. So it’s more likely I’ll go with this storyboard over the first idea, even though the first one has more subsense. 

The one problem I have with this storyboard is that it doesn’t allow me to appeal my character to the audience or show Lyra personality very much. I created another storyboard to see if I can simplify the animation so that I would be able to finish it and be able to show my characters personality. 

Initial Idea 3:

this idea stems from the experimentation I did on procreate with the fly landing on a characters nose. Lyra’s personality is very whimsical and innocent. She's lived under ground for most of her life and so that means that she hasn't experienced things like a dandelion flying in the sky. Thus, I thought that within this storyboard I could include appeal and anticipation at the beginning before the dandelion comes on to the frame by showing her elation and surprise when seeing it. The appeal would continue in to the whole animation as her expression and gestures would slightly change as she watches the dandelion fly around her. Within the dandelions movement in the wind I could demonstrate squash and stretch, arcs, ease-in and ease-out. I will probably aim to focus on appeal, squash and stretch, anticipation, arcs, follow through and overlapping. 

I like this one because ideally I have about enough time to get the most of this animation finished - I think - before the deadline on 18/11/2020. Also, I like this because it means that I can show Lyra’s personality and I hope she can appeal to the audience in this animation. One thing it will be missing is the full sense of her in her world as I will set it in the Old West Woods, which I haven't got much environmental design for.

[batboyblog]

My Thoughts on the Democratic Primary

Just what it says on the tin, my thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of each candidate and campaign. 

Joe Biden: Joe has been riding high since the race started, always polling first nationally and mostly first in the early state polls as well. He’s been making a case of returning to Obama era normality, pitching people on the joys of having a President free of major scandal who you’re not scared will blow up the earth. Till the first debate Joe used high poll numbers, particularly with black voters to sell himself as the inevitable nominee. Then the debate happened. Joe had been taking low level heat for backward facing rhetoric, a rejection of most of the “big ideas” that are the zeitgeist of the Democratic Party, and a level of magical thinking when it came to the GOP. Then his fanboying over long dead segregationists brought harsh criticism for Cory Booker, and people looking into his early senate record. At the debate itself Biden was not ready for a very predictable question/attack from a very predictable quarter, the only black person on stage. Whatever happens the myth of the inevitable nominee is broken, his poll numbers are dropping, and most damagingly his support from black voters was cut in half. Joe might come back from this, but his habit of doubling down, and putting his foot in his mouth as well as a refusal to be “managed” by a team all put his chances more at risk. It’s also worth saying Biden is nearly 80 years old and his 1970s references, etc really are making him look old and out of touch. 

Elizabeth Warren: From a rather lack luster early campaign Warren has managed to crawl her way back and is now around second in the polls. Liz is selling a detail centered vision of wide raging left wing change, with universal childcare, and debt relief speaking to millions of working 20, 30 and 40 somethings struggling with debt and basic cost of living problems. Whats more “I have a plan for that” speaks to a deep wish in Democratic circles for strong, smart, competent female leadership. Right now the Native American issue is in the ice box, but much like Hillary Clinton before her, a smart woman given to detailed policy planning, it’s shocking to see how a scandal with very little subsense (emails, DNA tests) can totally derail a woman’s campaign. Can Liz keep it in the ice box, can twitter managed to keep it shit together and not act like a giant megaphone for Trump attacks on her? who knows, but from where I’m sitting Warren’s summer is going swimmingly and she’s headed to the top spot. 

Kamala Harris: Harris dominated the first debate landing what might be a killer blow on front runner Biden, shooting her up to a close 3rd place in polling and allowing her to pull in mountains of last minute cash. Maybe this is the opening for Harris’ rise to the top. But maybe not, she had a strong entry into the campaign with a very smooth launch, a big rally, heavy polling etc, but struggled in the months between entering the race and the debate to command attention. She’s also received negative attention for her record as San Fran DA and California AG. Lots of this is disingenuous, misinformed or downright misinformation all bolstered by a general too cool for school meme politics that wants to reduce her to “Kamala is a cop”. But in any case her tries to break out with big ideas around housing and racial wealth gap have not gotten as much attention as maybe they should because the media and public see Warren as “the ideas gal” while Harris is not articulating an all encompassing vision like Warren she does have major progressive ideas, we’ll see if the memes have poisoned the progressive well against one of the most left wing candidates. Harris is clearly the best debater of the 25 people running but is that enough? can she keep media attention? 

Bernie Sanders: From a strong second place finish in 2016, with near universal name recognition, and signs his numbers with non-white voters were improving this looked like Bernie’s game to lose. For awhile things were going pretty well, nearly always second, sometimes a close second, to Biden, even leading in a few NH polls. Bernie now seems like he’s in free fall, sliding behind Warren and even Harris is many polls, being out raised by Mayor Pete Bernie is struggling. Bernie has always campaigned in slogans and light on details big ideas and in a field where nearly everyone supports Medicare for All and is willing to take over space that was his in 2016 Bernie has failed to either offer new big ideas or compete with Warren on details. At 77 years old Bernie is the oldest man on the field repeating much of what he had to say 4 years ago. Also his campaign has been dinged a number of times for engaging in the same nasty spited inter-party fighting that marred 2016, namely calling Warren a “Corporate Democrat” in an official Tweet (and some other stuff) a party scared of the same bitter, nasty fight in had in 2016 has no taste for the same behavior all over again. If Bernie can’t justify why him over Warren I see no reason why progressives won’t leave him for her. 

Pete Buttigieg: From someone who’s entering the race, a small city mayor, was treated as a joke, Pete has managed to move up to the top level of the race with many impressive polling results in Iowa. It’s clear that Pete is drawing on the same kind of people that Biden is, people who long for a smart, well spoken and scandal free President who won’t blow us all up by tweet at 3am. In fairness to Pete he also has made the case for some major structural changes getting rid of the Electoral College and court packing so he understanding the wider problems with our democracy in a way Biden doesn’t seem to. Also people are drawn to the civil rights moment of electing our first gay President and arguably his husband is the only political spouse in the race so far to make an impact in their own right. Pete’s campaign has been struggling lately with events out of South Bend, which highlights why so few of the 25 people running are current elected executives, lots of Senators, not that many current governors. It’s also highlighted how white much of Pete’s support is. That being said he’s managed to get some credit for stepping up and taking detect responsibility for failures, something rarely seen from a politician. Will that work? will it blow over and he get back on track? who knows. 

Everyone else is basically not worth mentioning, Gillibrand is lovely but she’s failed to define a space for herself between Harris and Warren and so is washed out. Beto badly fumbled his election pre-game damaged his brand and ruined a perfectly good chance to be a Texas Senator in 2021. Booker is always played up like he’s Obama 2.0 but never delivers his attack on Biden was important but Harris carried it home she’s eating his lunch on housing issues and there just isn’t a logic for him to be in. Klobuchar has Biden eating up the moderate crowd, Pete taking over the mid-western “red state” space, and she’s fighting Warren, Harris and Gillibrand for feminisms, there just isn’t space for her. Castro had an okay night on debate night one but just an okay one and Harris has overshadowed all from the debates, I keep forgetting Castro is even running, bad sign. 

I’ll put in a word about the loonies, Mike Gravel is a 9/11 Truther and that so embarrassed the teens running his campaign they’re ending his campaign. Tulsi Gabbard loves murderous dictators and the Russians and hates gay people and Muslims. Marianne Williamson is totally insane. and Andrew Yang has one kinda cool idea that he likes because he’s a tech bro who wants to give all work to robots and not feel guilty, but Yang likes to flirt with the white nationalist parts of the internet and is pushing weirdo men’s rights anti-semitic/Islamophobic “intactivism” so yikes to that shit 

[don-miettinen-blog]

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[jaded-rose]

July 13th, 2020

So, when you have no sense, that’s just nonsense. Not to be confused the known sense, which you would think would be the same as common sense, because that would just make sense. However, having no sense, is actually common sense... am I making any sense?? Known sense is simply a sensible use of the senses, and it actuality is common knowledge, even to people with no sense.... but knowledge commonly doesn’t make any sense to the senseless, which makes them insensible to known sense and unfortunately think it’s nonsense.

Some people may actually think they have a bit of extra sense but it’s most likely an elite sense, and they often get really incensed by others’ lack of common sense, but you’d think they’d have enough sense to understand that no sense IS common sense and by nature any notion of having sense thusly makes no sense at all, which actually makes perfect sense when you get a sense of all the nonsense that’s going on out there.

Luckily, anyone who has even just a shred of sense can very easily sense an elite sense.... those douche bags think that they’re SOOO sensible, they will actually cancel out their own sensibleness by senselessly throwing their (supposed) common sense completely away and insensitively insulting those who are more sensitive than they are.... often believing they are beyond someone’s sensory perception ranges. They literally let their extra sense go to their senses and clearly aren’t in their right sense anymore.

There are also people out there who legitimately have an antisense.... but it doesn’t mean how it sounds at all.... which in my opinion makes it misensed because it’s apparently not even multisensed but you can still kinda get a subsense from it if you sense my meaning....

But if everyone just came to there senses, there would only be known sense left.... and if everyone had perfect known sense all at once, we wouldn’t even need to use our senses at all and we’d probably become some kind of emotionless, wraiths that drift just around each other, perfectly 6 feet apart at all times, never even talking because everything is just already known at that point.... we have no need for anything at all... and the human race will finally be united as one people, we will rename the planet Wally World and the entire homosapien species will be call: COVID-Sapiens

TL:DR

It’s a whole whack of senselessly suspenseful insensitive senslessness; about a commonly known, yet unsensed, no-sense; perfectly suspended within completely sensible nonsense that makes such absolutely perfect sense, it’s practically madness. 😅

[cuttingitklose]

Developed chosen ideas. Re entering society after the pandemic was my starting point when it came to idea generation as I was wary of keeping my project relevant to current design/social needs. With freedom to chose the project I am wanting to create a piece of work that will stand out in my portfolio and to hold the professional worlds interest it needs to be innovative and relevant. My first idea that I felt had distance for development was issues surrounding festivals and events opening up again. Festivals and music events haven’t happened for over a year now in the UK and people are desperate and excited for their return with this come concerns about enhanced subsense abuse in comparison to other years. I could create a system of outcomes specific to a chosen festival that help guests with controlled drinking and drug taking. Providing intergraded advice and preventions to the branding of the festival itself, helping people be safe and aware of how to get support. This could be through information posters, vibrant medical points, integrated signage and navigation. My second main idea is building awareness around dementia but specifically the idea of lost communication between family and loved ones. An area that lacks contemporary design as often medica styles that are informative but lack the emotional connection.I would create something that would reach a wider audience rather than just the people looking for the information and facts. Advertising/social campain highlighting to the public the emotional toll on families losing communication with loved ones. Conveying the distorted and degenerative communication and what fills those gaps of lost communication. Typeface and use of typography and compisistion to create an emotive campaign building awareness.

[allthingslinguistic]

The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles

The second edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP-2) is now online for your browsing pleasure. The New Yorker has some background on the new edition: 

The original D.C.H.P. was published in 1967, on the Canadian centennial. This new and greatly expanded edition, which took eleven years of work by a team of linguists at the University of British Columbia, under the direction of Stefan Dollinger (an Austrian), appears on the country’s hundred and fiftieth anniversary.

The entry for the stereotypical Canadian term “eh”—not included in the original edition—is almost five thousand words long, discussing its history (it’s first found in British English), its status as a marker of Canadian identity, its main functions (“Confirmational uses, Contesting uses, Pardon eh, and Narrative uses,” further divided into a number of subsenses), and its use in other English-speaking countries. “Hoser” is shown to have been created by the comedians Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, on “Second City TV,” in 1981. The development of “chesterfield”—once a common Canadianism for a sofa of any sort, but now somewhat moribund—is explored at length. “Toque,” for a close-fitting knitted hat, “one of the most widely known Canadianisms,” is discussed in detail, ending with the dry note that “Today’s common spelling toque with the pronunciation in [u] confuses many non-Canadians.”

Here’s a small excerpt from that extensive “eh” entry: 

Eh is a good example of the important role language attitudes can play in language change. Attitudinal change affected eh after World War II at a speed that was difficult to capture in the written record, posing a challenge to linguists and lexicographers alike. Since that time, eh has developed into the "quintessential Canadian English stereotype" (Denis 2013: 1). While occasionally used by speakers of higher social standing (e.g. former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the 1971 quotation under meaning 1c), there is strong evidence that eh in the Canadian context eh is aligned primarily with "blue collar, non-urban, male" speakers (Denis 2013: 5). The enregisterment of eh as a marker of unsophisticated, rural characters of the beer-drinking type is connected with the comedy skit The Great White North by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas (see the 1981 quotation and video link in meaning 5). 

You can browse other entries in DCHP-2 online for free. Here’s all-dressed, double-double, and eavestrough for example, along with this list of 136 words that some people believe are Canadianisms but actually aren’t. Note, however, that the “browse” view also includes entries from the previous edition that have not been updated, which are flagged as such when you click on them but not in the general list (I found this slightly confusing).  

[4chanmusic]

https://soundcloud.com/usurpermockalpha/subsense-privace

[queernuck]

Call proprioception and viscerality taken together–as two complementary dimensions of the “medium”-depth perception most directly implicated in the body’s registration of the in-betweenness of the incorporeal event–mesoperception. Mesoperception is the synesthetic sensibility: it is the medium where inputs from ali five senses meet, across subsensate excitation, and become flesh together, tense and quivering. Mesoperceptive flesh functions as a corporeal transformer where one sense shades into another over the failure of each, their input translated into movement and affect. Mesoperception can be called sensation for short.

Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement Affect Sensation

[fortanach]

@riviaborn​  asked       ❝ you’re fucking kidding me. ❞           //             ACCEPTING.       

maybe  coming  out  of  a  creatures  mouth  wasn’t  the  best  way  to  introduce  yourself  to  someone  new.  however  ,  with  the  amount  of  subsense  in  her  mouth  ,  she  couldn’t  reply  to  his  harsh  comment  before  coughing  up  the  gunk  that  lied  inside.         ❝         i’m           good           ,           thanks           for           fucking           asking           .      ❞          came  the  same  attuide  thrown  back  at  the  man  with  the  hair  as  white  as  snow.    as  a  hand  lifted  up  to  wipe  whatever  was  left  of  the  misfortune  incident. 

                              without  any  guidance  ,  the  brunette  had  helped  herself  up  from  the  ground.         ❝         did             you             kill             it             that             quickly             ???             quite             impressing             for             a             man             who             looks             like             shit             himself             .      ❞                

[biofunmy]

Why Is Everything ‘Adjacent’ Now?

As we find ourselves stuck hopelessly online, our lexicon grasps desperately back toward the physical world. An example: The word “adjacent” has recently packed its suitcase and taken the short trip from the literal to the figurative.

It used to be that “adjacent” meant “next to,” as in buildings, or city blocks. These days, it is more likely to signify a more conceptual and vague relation, which the speaker or writer would rather not describe in depth.

On Christmas Day, the CNN commentator Chris Cillizza called Michelle Obama “probably the most popular politics-adjacent figure in the country.”

A few months before that, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said that Megyn Kelly’s remarks on the use of blackface in Halloween costumes were “not quite racist, but racist-adjacent” and also hate crime-adjacent.

“We almost might need to write a new subsense for this,” said Peter Sokolowski, the editor at large of Merriam-Webster, of the flock of “-adjacents.” (Subsense is dictionary-world jargon for a secondary meaning of a word.) The usage, he said, was “so new it’s not in the damn dictionary.”

“Adjacent,” in this usage, is a postpositive adjective. That just means that it comes after the noun it modifies. This is unusual in English, but standard in French and Latin syntax. Because the conventions of those languages can often read as fancy in English, calling something “cannabis-adjacent” or “cosmetics-adjacent” grants a nifty sheen.

“Like the technical vocabulary of law and medicine, the Latin nature of this word brings the discourse up a notch,” Mr. Sokolowski said. “It makes it seem more formal and technical.”

Such shifts in meaning irk purists like Lionel Shriver, a writer who recently decried in Harper’s what she called “semantic drift.” In an interview, Ms. Shriver described her reaction to the use of “-adjacent” and “space,” another term she said was increasingly being used in a figurative sense.

“The weird thing is that it’s imposing geography on what could not be more abstract,” she said. “It’s almost like a need for geography in the digital world, where everything’s floating around. We’re living increasingly in a world beyond space, beyond physicality.”

Ben Zimmer, a lexicographer, said that he began to notice the usage more and more about five years ago. He thought it may have originated with “real-estate talk, where, say, ‘Beverly Hills-adjacent’ indicates that a property isn’t actually in Beverly Hills, but close enough.”

Others see the word as useful in Silicon Valley, where start-up founders can’t quite be sure what it is their companies are making, even as they’re selling it to investors. It’s best to keep options open in case the need to pivot suddenly arises. The chat application Slack, for instance, was once TinySpeck, a gaming start-up with a particularly sophisticated chat feature; it was chat-adjacent. It left the gaming space, entered the chat space and became a billion-dollar company.

Erik Torenberg, a founder of the early stage venture capital fund Village Global, said that he sees technology entrepreneurs use the word as if they are preparing for a similar pivot (to use their favored jargon for “change in strategy”).

“When people are trying to pursue one path, that path doesn’t necessarily work so they go into an adjacent space, a space next to that path,” he said.

(Mr. Torenberg said that, when it came to the frequency of the phrase’s usage, it was a seven or an eight on a scale of 10. A 10 out of 10, he said, was the term “doubleclick,” which investors use as handy shorthand for “let’s go deeper or zoom in on this topic!”)

Ms. Shriver said that “-adjacent” was probably useful in a climate where businesses were “started up in the spirit of going fishing.”

“It’s something between angling and gambling,” she said. “Rather than setting out with a specific intention to produce a product and sell that product, it’s capitalizing on vagueness.”

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On the Implantation of the No-Father.

On the Implantation of the No-Father.

The Ghost has been blessed with sputum and a redolence of attention in the subsense of the father and son, an absence in plural, and thus there has remained one without a previous substance, not the Ουσία, for its body has been subtracted from the Other’s discourse: that which constitutes the base of circumscription and makes possibilities possible: in the dominion of such a discourse a father…

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