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I love a comment in that link: "This is the most wordy, pretentious way to say 'they do it for the lulz.'"

What a contrast in the writing style! Whereas I normally toil to be most concise, to pack the most semantic value into a sentence, this article dishes out a marathon of Olympic-strength verbal acrobatics.




Could you point some places where you find such acrobatics?

I found it pretty linear.


He refers to unrelated, poorly explained concepts: dialogic image, emancipatory media, criticality.

He has important hypothesis that he doesn't provide support for:

>it is a secretive conflict

>Goatse acts as a rejection of ... an ideology of post-fordist labour


See also: International Art English

"IAE rebukes English for its lack of nouns: Visual becomes visuality, global becomes globality, potential becomes potentiality, experience becomes...experiencability."

http://canopycanopycanopy.com/16/international_art_english


I'm italian, so I can not feel it. Also latin-derived languages like italian passed a process where longer words (visuality vs visual) were considered the most elegant, if you say that that article uses such kind of deformation... well, it means that it looks like italian :)




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