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  1. Aug 2021
    1. uggestions forquantifying literature from experimental early structuralism, such asClaude Lévi-Strauss’s attempt to define the structure of myths using the for-mulafx(a) :fy(b)≅fx(b) :f(a−1)(y), are not operationalizable at all, as suchpatterns are too difficult and abstract to code and define far too few textsfor machine learning to successfully code even one such appearance in ahandful of texts

      Fucking love Levis-Strauss. It is interesting how much computers rely on large amount of data, but by doing so, glosses over the different patterns and nuance.

    1. I mean here a conscious act of the mind which illustrates a certain code, certain "rules" of inter-pretation.

      Especially as outsiders in a culture. How do you interpret something that you have to "translate." On some level, something is lost.

    1. “scraped” from, paying attention to their embeddedness in a dialogic commu-nication.

      Context is key. I think this would be the hardest part in digital scraping.

    2. o solve this problem it is necessary to adapt the hermeneutic approach to the conditions of social media communication, and shift its object of analysis from texts to datasets.

      I think that this is important. Given the history of hermeneutics as a close reading of the bible, I think that same sort of methodology is needed in modern political rhetoric, given how much of it is saturated with dog-whistles.

  2. Jul 2021
    1. Indian conspiracy to steal it.

      Is it stealing if it belonged to the Indians to begin with? Reminds me of the British Museum and how they stole artifacts from other countries to promote themselves.

    2. but I know what Indian juggling really is

      Is there a difference? Every time that Indians are brought up, it seems more to highlight how different (in a negative way) they are to English.

    3. but to a semi-transparent stone of the inferior order of gems, supposed to be affected by the lunar influences–the moon

      I am very confused by this sentence. I feel like it gives insight into the narrator but It is so confusing I'm unsure what.

  3. May 2021