I teach structuralism tools to my students, especially narrative program by Greimas and actantial model. The good point is that's it's easily appliable to video games mechanics and you can fill it with anything.
Then, storylets is my favourite ND concept.
Then, storylets is my favourite ND concept.
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I teach structuralism tools to my students, especially narrative program by Greimas and actantial model. The good point is that's it's easily appliable to video games mechanics and you can fill it with anything.
Then, storylets is my favourite ND concept.
Then, storylets is my favourite ND concept.
Taught Shakespeare in the morning (with some dramaturgical digressions), going to teach written literacy in the afternoon with a focus on structuralism and semiotics.
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Taught Shakespeare in the morning (with some dramaturgical digressions), going to teach written literacy in the afternoon with a focus on structuralism and semiotics.
my german is rough, but the Wehrmacht was never clean & it’s genocides should never be forgiven as unintended accidents.
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
my german is rough, but the Wehrmacht was never clean & it’s genocides should never be forgiven as unintended accidents.
Okay. I’ll bite.
What is the “true essence of gender” here
If you are analyzing it with post-structuralism, isn’t all gender hyper reality?
Shouldn’t all gender be hyperreal, binary or otherwise?
I’m saying that gender is material because social conditions are material conditions
What is the “true essence of gender” here
If you are analyzing it with post-structuralism, isn’t all gender hyper reality?
Shouldn’t all gender be hyperreal, binary or otherwise?
I’m saying that gender is material because social conditions are material conditions
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Okay. I’ll bite.
What is the “true essence of gender” here
If you are analyzing it with post-structuralism, isn’t all gender hyper reality?
Shouldn’t all gender be hyperreal, binary or otherwise?
I’m saying that gender is material because social conditions are material conditions
What is the “true essence of gender” here
If you are analyzing it with post-structuralism, isn’t all gender hyper reality?
Shouldn’t all gender be hyperreal, binary or otherwise?
I’m saying that gender is material because social conditions are material conditions
“Structuralism is back baby, it’s good again!”
This interview with Leif Weatherby on LLMs is one of the best theoretically-informed discussions I’ve heard on the topic. Well worth your time if you’re a literary theorist or linguist.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
This interview with Leif Weatherby on LLMs is one of the best theoretically-informed discussions I’ve heard on the topic. Well worth your time if you’re a literary theorist or linguist.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
38. Natural Language (w/ Leif Weatherby)
Podcast Episode · Disintegrator · 24/09/2025 · 1h 6m
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October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Structuralism is back baby, it’s good again!”
This interview with Leif Weatherby on LLMs is one of the best theoretically-informed discussions I’ve heard on the topic. Well worth your time if you’re a literary theorist or linguist.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
This interview with Leif Weatherby on LLMs is one of the best theoretically-informed discussions I’ve heard on the topic. Well worth your time if you’re a literary theorist or linguist.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
I wonder how much of this is people learning a little bit of post-structuralism and/or critical theory such that they get “Meaning is fake,” but not enough to understand that it’s actually “meaning is a reflection of power, not an innate quality of a thing”
clarity: i don't mean this in the prescriptivist sense, but the modern approach to labels frustrates me sometimes as it often feels deeply disrespectful and disconnected from the literal generations of people who fought for many of these concepts to even be linguistically legible as categories.
does anyone when gender and sexuality labels will become useful metadata that convey some semblance of shared meaning for the purpose of mutual understanding again, or are we doomed to the death of language? asking for a friend
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I wonder how much of this is people learning a little bit of post-structuralism and/or critical theory such that they get “Meaning is fake,” but not enough to understand that it’s actually “meaning is a reflection of power, not an innate quality of a thing”
My thoughts on the qualified #mathematical #realism of #Aristotle (evolved in #philosophy to modal structuralism), in re my talk with Alex Malpass. Surprise: all actual #infinities exist on your fingernail. But don't have to. Find out how!
Check it out:
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Check it out:
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Long ago I explained why All Godless Universes Are Mathematical and how physicalism already explains The Ontology of Logic and how numbers are not the same thing as quantities but only codewords that ...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My thoughts on the qualified #mathematical #realism of #Aristotle (evolved in #philosophy to modal structuralism), in re my talk with Alex Malpass. Surprise: all actual #infinities exist on your fingernail. But don't have to. Find out how!
Check it out:
www.richardcarrier.info/archives/38540
Check it out:
www.richardcarrier.info/archives/38540
Begging these people to just read one small paragraph of new materialism, or even post-structuralism. When you simply look at the experiences of trans people, it's so clearly wrong that materiality only exists as physical matter and that we can disregard culture.
October 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Begging these people to just read one small paragraph of new materialism, or even post-structuralism. When you simply look at the experiences of trans people, it's so clearly wrong that materiality only exists as physical matter and that we can disregard culture.
A lot of people talk silliness about postmodernity, post-structuralism and critical race studies. And these are semi-related to the subject.
But anyhow to the capitalists, contracts and property law are far more important than that other junk like respect for the poor.
But anyhow to the capitalists, contracts and property law are far more important than that other junk like respect for the poor.
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A lot of people talk silliness about postmodernity, post-structuralism and critical race studies. And these are semi-related to the subject.
But anyhow to the capitalists, contracts and property law are far more important than that other junk like respect for the poor.
But anyhow to the capitalists, contracts and property law are far more important than that other junk like respect for the poor.
Hi. Structuralist critiques are important for us to understand the systems of ideas and incentives that coerce our behaviours, absolutely. But we cannot allow structuralism to erase the agency of the actual people reproducing the system. They still have culpability in harm and obligations to stop.
October 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Hi. Structuralist critiques are important for us to understand the systems of ideas and incentives that coerce our behaviours, absolutely. But we cannot allow structuralism to erase the agency of the actual people reproducing the system. They still have culpability in harm and obligations to stop.
С днем рождения, dear Roman 🥳
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx #LinguisticQuotes
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx #LinguisticQuotes
October 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
С днем рождения, dear Roman 🥳
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx #LinguisticQuotes
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx #LinguisticQuotes
'#Art is not a spectator sport': the confounding work of #VictorBurgin. The artist’s groundbreaking 1986 book #Between was inspired by psychoanalysis, post-structuralism & a rejection of art as mere commerce. Yet it contains themes common to us all theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
'#Art is not a spectator sport': the confounding work of #VictorBurgin. The artist’s groundbreaking 1986 book #Between was inspired by psychoanalysis, post-structuralism & a rejection of art as mere commerce. Yet it contains themes common to us all theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography
You can look around and decide legal realism is broadly correct but still also conclude that structuralism (it's all fake, we make it up as we go) is a good thing that needs to be bound. Political moments of exception should thereby be rationalized by our system of political thinking.
I guess the relevant question is why bother with the theatrics of law at that point? It seems so expensive and annoying to interpret statutory law that way and deal with courts and judges and everything, why not just haul them out by their collars in front of their homes and use a bolt gun?
October 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You can look around and decide legal realism is broadly correct but still also conclude that structuralism (it's all fake, we make it up as we go) is a good thing that needs to be bound. Political moments of exception should thereby be rationalized by our system of political thinking.
“A structuralist psychoanalysis is content with a binarism that is juridical, totalizing, and without subtlety and always bears the trace of normativity.”
Jean Laplanche, “Structuralism before Psychoanalysis”
Jean Laplanche, “Structuralism before Psychoanalysis”
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“A structuralist psychoanalysis is content with a binarism that is juridical, totalizing, and without subtlety and always bears the trace of normativity.”
Jean Laplanche, “Structuralism before Psychoanalysis”
Jean Laplanche, “Structuralism before Psychoanalysis”
To my mind, the fundamental issue was the successful rebranding of post-structuralism to the public as cynical nihilists rather than simply the next in a logical genealogy of interpreting the work of structure
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
To my mind, the fundamental issue was the successful rebranding of post-structuralism to the public as cynical nihilists rather than simply the next in a logical genealogy of interpreting the work of structure
A new article has been published in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism and the science of consciousness: “Neurophenomenal Structuralism as a General Theory of Consciousness?” by Jakub Mihálik and Tomáš Marvan.
Neurophenomenal structuralism as a general theory of consciousness?
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A new article has been published in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism and the science of consciousness: “Neurophenomenal Structuralism as a General Theory of Consciousness?” by Jakub Mihálik and Tomáš Marvan.
The creator function, post-structuralism, and the perils of terminological dissonance - @producing2power.bsky.social, & @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social (2025). Published in the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The creator function, post-structuralism, and the perils of terminological dissonance - @producing2power.bsky.social, & @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social (2025). Published in the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Me, standing on the precipice of post-structuralism, gazing into the abyss of my own incomprehension.
October 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Me, standing on the precipice of post-structuralism, gazing into the abyss of my own incomprehension.
In a funny way chat-boys have revealed the strengths and limitations of structuralism, right? Like yes there is a structured called “lang”, and yes there are grammatical forms that imply finite combinations in context - but the author isn’t dead and the structure can’t function w/o intentionalty
October 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In a funny way chat-boys have revealed the strengths and limitations of structuralism, right? Like yes there is a structured called “lang”, and yes there are grammatical forms that imply finite combinations in context - but the author isn’t dead and the structure can’t function w/o intentionalty
Your position was one of my lecturer's first comment on Baudrillard when we were doing post-structuralism/post-modernism - "maybe the Gulf War didn't happen for him, but it probably happened for somone whose house got bombed"
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Your position was one of my lecturer's first comment on Baudrillard when we were doing post-structuralism/post-modernism - "maybe the Gulf War didn't happen for him, but it probably happened for somone whose house got bombed"
One wonders which method of interpretation the Federalist Society SCOTUS will apply to arrive at this decision.
Textualism? Original meaning? Judicial Precedent? Moral Reasoning? Structuralism?
Party Über Alles?
Suddenly the Constitution has become muddy & unsettled in the GOP Justice's minds.
Textualism? Original meaning? Judicial Precedent? Moral Reasoning? Structuralism?
Party Über Alles?
Suddenly the Constitution has become muddy & unsettled in the GOP Justice's minds.
September 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
One wonders which method of interpretation the Federalist Society SCOTUS will apply to arrive at this decision.
Textualism? Original meaning? Judicial Precedent? Moral Reasoning? Structuralism?
Party Über Alles?
Suddenly the Constitution has become muddy & unsettled in the GOP Justice's minds.
Textualism? Original meaning? Judicial Precedent? Moral Reasoning? Structuralism?
Party Über Alles?
Suddenly the Constitution has become muddy & unsettled in the GOP Justice's minds.
Setting aside that Coates operates on a moral level that Klein simply does not, Klein’s insistence to view things strategically while abandoning the structuralism that has marked his career is infuriating. Trump is “acceptable” ONLY in our 2 party system. Ezra of 5-10 years ago would understand that
September 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Setting aside that Coates operates on a moral level that Klein simply does not, Klein’s insistence to view things strategically while abandoning the structuralism that has marked his career is infuriating. Trump is “acceptable” ONLY in our 2 party system. Ezra of 5-10 years ago would understand that
I'd expect lots of variation in topic and form. Post-structuralism one episode, then an ep of original and cover songs, then your pitch for the Muppets' "Player of Games"...
I'd expect it would often have guests, not only from left Youtube.
I'd expect it would be called "I am Big Podcast."
I'd expect it would often have guests, not only from left Youtube.
I'd expect it would be called "I am Big Podcast."
September 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I'd expect lots of variation in topic and form. Post-structuralism one episode, then an ep of original and cover songs, then your pitch for the Muppets' "Player of Games"...
I'd expect it would often have guests, not only from left Youtube.
I'd expect it would be called "I am Big Podcast."
I'd expect it would often have guests, not only from left Youtube.
I'd expect it would be called "I am Big Podcast."
im not one to believe in structuralism especially when applied to games or "design" or whatever but its fascinating how routinely this specific thing happens where like dark souls or metroid or w.e seem to take on properties of completely different games in the minds of a lot of people
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
im not one to believe in structuralism especially when applied to games or "design" or whatever but its fascinating how routinely this specific thing happens where like dark souls or metroid or w.e seem to take on properties of completely different games in the minds of a lot of people