Comment by tasuki

2 days ago

I had a similar reaction. If someone could chime in and explain how this isn't absolute nonsense, I'd be grateful.

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girvo  2 days ago

I can’t tell if it’s just normal art-writing nonsense or AI-helped nonsense anymore

  • Isamu  2 days ago

    AI-helped nonsense is nowhere near a peak, I wish I could place a bet on the ascendancy of AI-assisted nonsense

3-cheese-sundae  2 days ago

If the parent had kept reading, they might have discovered the retroactive explanation of that sentence:

"This is the form’s real operation. Deadpan does not convince you it is neutral. It performs neutrality in a way that lets you enjoy both the performance and your awareness of it. You are in on the joke. The image says it didn’t choose, and you know it chose, and both of you agree to pretend otherwise because the pretence produces something valuable: attention."

  • MarkusQ  2 days ago

    So, normal art-writing nonsense.

    Or maybe I should say that, in presenting the problematic sentence first, and the putative "retroactive explanation" some distance later, the author has engaged in a form of dialectic which invites the reader to ask the question for themselves, or, in presuming the answer, become part of the joke.