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Neutral Milk Hotel is...scholarly?
DarkAvenger:
It is not my right to say, but it isn't just that you revived a dead thread. It is also that you had literally nothing to provide to it. There is a social code to this forum. You've broken many of it's unwritten rules. Thanks for posting.
PS. You've also been a dick to a few of this forum's most highly regarded members. That's not really a good idea if you plan on sticking around. Just check out dalconnsuch's profile. He isn't around anymore because not many people liked him very much.
jimbunny:
So, I think too much has been made of this particular article as a representation of academic writing in general; this guy is not a professional (though clearly he has intentions of becoming one). Sure, some of it is impenetrable, but sometimes - especially at higher levels of academia - to be impenetrable is simply to express an insight that requires a certain amount of linguistic footwork, in the interest of economy. Sometimes parodies and criticisms of it are just and proper, but to write it off because it does not conform to your preferred mode of dialogue (vernacular) is unfair. It seems like the least that this paper can do is encourage broadening the discussion of a music that generally is considered "pop culture" and tagged as only-to-be-reviewed. If there is something substantial to be said about the album's expression, further than it is "good," "bad," or "well-made," - well, there are quality discussions to be had most everywhere.
re this page: nobody cares about your tiff; please take it somewhere else.
Hat:
--- Quote from: exomni on 04 Apr 2009, 13:20 ---someone trying to collect every proto-punk glam rock album ever released, perhaps.
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I am trying to wrap my head around this idea brought up earlier of an individual 'belonging' to an internet community and trying to figure out if it would be helped or hindered if you were this kind of person. Tragically difficult problem.
Guys can I just get really meta and say the only thing I don't like about this place is how when people come into this forum and act like a dick everyone goes "OH NO YOU CAN'T ACT LIKE A COCK ON THIS PART OF THE INTERNET GET OUT" instead of doing the right thing which is basically anything except that.
Also read the first part of this essay again and I am just so used to academic arts wank because its a perfectly cromulent piece of academic writing. It's just that he is writing about something with little cultural context like it has had the time to develop a fully fledged impact on a society, if it was even capable of such a thing (MY OPINION IS THAT IT IS NOT)
Writing academic papers on rock music is like trying to describe Faulker by throwing the horns.*
Which gives me a fucking excellent idea for something to draw on my new bookshelf
*I have not done this
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