@St_Rev < to deliver a model of generative grammar with explanatory and predictive power for natural language observed "in the wild"
@schakalsynthetc Important problem, but I think @meaningness's work points to a way out of that technical impasse.
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@St_Rev@Meaningness actually one of the things I like about Antin is that he's admirably indifferent to positioning relative to the "times" -
@schakalsynthetc@Meaningness It reads as super-super-80s to me. Outright performativism as backlash against formalism mid-80s-early-90s. -
@St_Rev@Meaningness well, how anything reads is going to be influenced by what happened to be going on around it when it happens regardless -
@St_Rev@Meaningness amusingly, what comes to mind as having useful insight into the problem at hand here is another one of Antin's pieces -
@St_Rev@Meaningness we're used to reading formal choices as implying judgement or comment on a surrounding genre, maybe that's a problem -
@schakalsynthetc@Meaningness Like displaying a urinal or 90s-style Saturday Night Live "it isn't actually funny, that's the joke"... -
@St_Rev@Meaningness actually, sth about Duchamp's urinal that I think could be a starting point for a really valuable inquiry, but > -
@St_Rev@Meaningness < it's kind of hard to propose without being mistaken for some kind of juvenile gag - 3 more replies
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