WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
73 followers · 1088 posts · Server zirk.us

A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:

«
History, like perspective, needs distance. Facts that are too abundantly attested cease, in some degree, to be malleable.
[L’histoire a besoin de lointain, comme la perspective. Les faits et les événements trop attestés ont, en quelque sorte, cessé d’être malléables.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/joubert-joseph/62398

#quote #quotes #quotation #distance #history #interpretation #perspective #record #subjectivity #time

Last updated 1 year ago

WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
71 followers · 1050 posts · Server zirk.us

A quotation from McLaughlin, Mignon:

«««««
Other people’s truth may comfort us, but only your own persuades us.
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/62

#quote #quotes #quotation #comfort #conviction #experience #others #perspective #persuasion #subjectivity #truth

Last updated 1 year ago

WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
69 followers · 1021 posts · Server zirk.us

A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

«««««
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasant to believe.
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/mencken-hl/62118/

#quote #quotes #quotation #belief #falsehood #lie #pleasing #pleasure #subjectivity #truth

Last updated 1 year ago

Davastewart · @Davastewart
113 followers · 764 posts · Server zirk.us

I just finished reading a book that I didn’t like at all. Reading the reviews reminded me that reading is very subjective. What I found cloying and unrealistic MANY other people found wholesome and sweet.

#reading #subjectivity #Books

Last updated 1 year ago

WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
62 followers · 853 posts · Server zirk.us

A quotation from Austen, Jane:

«««««
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/austen-jane/1277/

#quote #quotes #quotation #enjoyment #meme #misunderstanding #perspective #pleasure #subjectivity

Last updated 1 year ago

Technoetic Arts Journal · @technoeticarts
13 followers · 14 posts · Server mas.to

'It seems that going phenomenologically beyond dualism would mean for feminism neither reducing the sexual difference in an attempt to describe human existence beyond gender nor emphasizing the difference in order to valorize its hitherto discriminated element. It would rather mean opening up to the gendered lived experience in an entire spectrum of intrinsically non-binary phenomena.' (Adamiak, 2022)

ta.pubpub.org/pub/20-1-2-adami

@philosophy

#situatedness #gender #subjectivity #transcendentalism

Last updated 2 years ago

Nuno · @ncrav
114 followers · 515 posts · Server mas.to

Imagining aliens with a faster subjective experience of time looking at us and thinking we're some sort of slow geological process of a strange hydrocarbon filled planet.

Perhaps this is a solution to the Fermi paradox: we're just part of a rare group of living things that experiences time either too slow or too fast.

#fermiparadox #subjectivity #chronoception #extraterrestriallife #aliens #time

Last updated 2 years ago

David Scott Moyer · @farbel
268 followers · 1356 posts · Server mas.to

Well, now we know the subjective opinion of the members of the Academy.

There is no "best" in art, people. There is only what you like and what you don't.

#objectivity #subjectivity #oscars #movies #art #academyawards

Last updated 2 years ago

Travis F W · @travisfw
254 followers · 533 posts · Server fosstodon.org
@envplane · @envplane
105 followers · 11 posts · Server sciences.social

OnlineFirst - "‘They’re part of what we are’: Interspecies belonging, animal life and farming practice on the Isle of Skye" by Tom Fry:

@CamUniGeography @UEcologies

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

#farming #uplands #subjectivity #rewilding #conservation #moreThanHuman #PoliticalEcology

Last updated 2 years ago

Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1419 followers · 3968 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Louis-Olivier Brassard · @loupbrun
176 followers · 938 posts · Server mamot.fr
broVbro 🇺🇲 · @broVbro
18 followers · 122 posts · Server toot.community

Remember the 'Good Old Days?' In 1958, 44 percent of white Americans had no problem saying they’d move if a black family moved in next door. The days were good if you were white, male and middle class. When you hear one dig a bit to determine if their might be contrary viewpoints.

#perspective #criticalthinking #Confirmationbias #subjectivity

Last updated 2 years ago

elizabeth veldon · @elizabethveldon
532 followers · 3032 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Me on Friday: 'Sure, a paper on all this stuff I'm talking about around the / split, underlieing power structures in and the problems inherent within the formation of academic selfhood.'

Me on the next Friday: 'Oh no.'

#discourse #academic #subjectivity #objectivity

Last updated 2 years ago

elizabeth veldon · @elizabethveldon
513 followers · 2725 posts · Server mastodon.scot

yes, but have you considered that the research you are undertaking, the very idea that you are qualified to undertake this research, the god-damn belief that this research has to be done and has meaning is a question?

from “Critical Ethnography and Education; Theory, Methodology, and Ethics”

#objectivity #subjectivity #whitesupremacy #researchethics #ethics

Last updated 2 years ago

wonkismm? · @aha
255 followers · 693 posts · Server artoot.xyz
wonkismm? · @aha
255 followers · 693 posts · Server artoot.xyz
parallelarts · @parallelarts
87 followers · 67 posts · Server zirk.us

The sculptural dynamism. Recognition of interior scaffolding. I arise via skeletal authority. The skeleton is the author of my verticality. Smooth motion is underpinned by stable architectures. Interface with ground and gravitational forces. Shared modes of alignment among living mammals. [In response to today's offering from
@biodiversitypix - ...extinct gigantic Sloth...London, 1842]

#skeleton #bio #extinct #body #subjectivity #writing #thinking #sensing #sentience #architecture #artwriting

Last updated 2 years ago

TimNMurph · @GasheadAu
254 followers · 777 posts · Server mas.to

Things I don't understand needing content warnings:

• Swearing

Things I don't understand not having content warnings:

• Religion

#subjectivity #belief #language

Last updated 2 years ago