#defining reality

[science-criticaltheory]

Technology and The New Aesthetics of Violence | Eddy Von Mueller | TEDxEmory.

Dr. Mueller’s TED talk will focus on how new technologies have affected the entertainment industry and drastically changed the movie consumer’s experience, particularly in a growing desensitization to violence.

Eddy Von Mueller is a Senior Lecturer in the Emory Department of Film and Media Studies, where he also serves as the Faculty Coordinator of the Film and Media Management Concentration. His scholarly work examines history of the entertainment industry and the intersections of technology, economics, and aesthetics in screen media. His scholarly publications explore subjects as varied as silent adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare, the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, the police procedural genre on film and television, and the use of science fiction as tool for communicating and teaching science. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming anthology of essays in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein. A working filmmaker, his most recent feature, The Lady From Sockholm (2007), an all-puppet film-noir, played at over 40 film festivals around the world.

#technology #defining reality #desensitization to violence #Youtube

[nothorses]

I saw your tags on the post about trick or treaters not speaking and I am v interested in hearing more of your thoughts on the concept of “developmental delays”! I‘ve seen the idea that disability is a construct, but I’m not as familiar with the idea that development is also a construct. You have really great takes as an educator and someone who like, actually GETS how kids work, so I am interested in your thoughts!

I also know that posting on this subject might be poking the bear, so it is 1000% cool if you would rather not comment 💜 Tysm!

Oh I'm happy to talk about it! I love talking about this stuff, thank you for asking me to 💙

This isn't exactly new ground; there's been plenty of research into and writing on the subject, and deconstructing "development" as a static concept was, ironically, a huge part of my most recent development class.

The idea is that our understanding of "benchmarks" of development, which informs the larger concept of development as a whole, is heavily rooted in the assumption that Western culture is The Standard. We prioritize walking, talking, reading, and writing, which means we cultivate these skills in our children from a young age, which means they develop those skills more quickly than they do others.

To use one of my favorite examples from Rogoff, 2003, Orienting Concepts and Ways of Understanding the Cultural Nature of Human Development:

Although U.S. middle-class adults often do not trust children below about age 5 with knives, among the Efe of the Democratic Republic of Congo, infants routinely use machetes safely (Wilkie, personal communication, 1989). Likewise, Fore (New Guinea) infants handle knives and fire safely by the time they are able to walk (Sorenson, 1979). Aka parents of Central Africa teach 8- to 10-month-old infants how to throw small spears and use small pointed digging sticks and miniature axes with sharp metal blades: "Training for autonomy begins in infancy. Infants are allowed to crawl or walk to whatever they want in camp and allowed to use knives, machetes, digging sticks, and clay pots around camp. Only if an infant begins to crawl into a fire or hits another child do parents or others interfere with the infant’s activity. It was not unusual, for instance, to see an eight month old with a six-inch knife chopping the branch frame of its family’s house. By three or four years of age children can cook themselves a meal on the fire, and by ten years of age Aka children know enough subsistence skills to live in the forest alone if need be. (Hewlett, 1991, p. 34)" (pg. 5)

In the US we would view "letting an 8-month-old handle a knife" as a sign of severe neglect, but the emphasis here is placed on the fact that these children are taught to do these things safely. They don't learn out of necessity, or stumble into knives when nobody is watching; they learn with care, support, and safety in mind, just like children here learn. It makes me wonder if Aka parents would view our children's lack of basic survival skills with the same concern and disdain as USAmerican parents would view their children's inability to read.

Do we disallow our children from handling knives because it is objectively, fundamentally unsafe for a child of that age to do so- because even teaching them is developmentally impossible- or is that just a cultural assumption?

What other cultural assumptions do we have about child development?

Which ties in neatly with various social-based models of disability, particularly learning and, of course, developmental disabilities. If your culture doesn't value the things you are good at, and you happen to struggle with the things it does value, what kinds of assumptions is it likely to make about you? How will it pathologize you? What happens to that culture if it understands those values to be arbitrary, in order to accommodate your unique existence?

#education #childcare #disability #ftr I am specifically saying that it adds an important and interesting dimension to models of disability based on the social model #because disability is a complex combination of social/cultural and legitimately limiting factors that people to this day #are still trying to define in an inclusive and effective way #(and probably will be forever because it's so tied up in social/cultural and political stuff) #I dont want to imply that disability is 100% entirely made up- but it also isn't 100% entirely 'objective physical reality' or whatever. #its complicated. ill have better thoughts when im not just like 5 weeks into my first disability studies class lmao

[llutik]

i think it's not my place to speak but the way johnnys disability was treated at the end of steel ball run feels wrong

he can walk a bit... as a treat <3 (the entirety of steel ball run is his physiotherapy)

#my art #jjba #jjba fanart #steel ball run #sbr #jojos bizarre adventure #johnny joestar #rina higashikata #jojo #jojo part 7 #man there's really fifteen different ways to tag jojo isn't it. #i really wanted to imagine cute scenarios with him and rina but he just seems too mean and awkward. #the johnny joestar legend in jojolion made their marriage seem so magical but i feel like the reality of it was much more mundane #he is still disabled for the rest of his life #he is defined by his stubbornness and drive to overcome it to me

[teaboot]

So I follow you, and tumblr notifications now alert you when someone you follow interacts with your post. So when I saw you liked my werewolf comic I yelled across the house to my betrothed, “Babe! You know that person who absolutely loathes Olaf? They liked my comic!”

YOOO YOU FOLLOW ME? THATS SO COOL! YOUR COMIC WAS SO SWEET! Asg7gghhgyjgggfddhfhhfk ahh I am coping with being mutuals with cool art people

(Linking it here since I'm gonna get asks about it, cw for implied domestic abuse and toxic relationships)

#THANK YOU! #Going thru every stage of grief at being known as the Olaf Person #The unfortunate reality of being defined by that which we diametrically oppose #Hashtag deep

[forestofsprites]

to attempt to categorize aziraphale & crowley's actions into the simple dichotomies of 'correct' and 'wrong' or 'good' and 'bad' is to employ the exact same fallacy that the show warns of. throughout season two we see aziraphale struggle with morals and their ambiguity, no matter crowley's assertion (and demonstration) that there is no true 'good', no true 'evil'- that the lines are not only blurred but frankly non-existent- aziraphale can't move past the principles he was raised on. good actions are good (inherent to angels, inherent to heaven), evil actions are evil (inherent to demons, inherent to hell). aziraphale's decision to try to 'fix' heaven is the perfect representation of the reality of the universe. he believes it to be a simply good decision, something angels do and heaven is all about (he'll get heaven back to normal! back to being good!) but the reality of his decision is so much murkier than that. it isn't that aziraphale did something bad or evil, nor is it that he did something correct or good, he did something that, like many things in the universe, embodies both.

#i haven't done meta in a year guys i am so sad and rusty #i just mean that #you can't define the show that seeks to reject the good/evil fallacy by employing that fallacy to denote their actions #i mean absolutely aziraphale thinks he is being good. he made that choice in the faith that it was a good one. something inherent to him #as an angel #but that decision was never so clear cut. there was no right or wrong within it. he was given a choice and he chose it #it's not going to achieve what he thinks it will. it isn't the path to his happiness #and i definitely think crowley is closer to that path in terms of understanding the reality of heaven and hell- good vs evil #but neither are simply right or wrong #neither is a simply good or simply bad option #the whole point is an 'us' #a middle ground #an understanding that choices and actions are not good or bad or wrong or right. they're just choices. they're inherently made with a bit #of both #good omens #good omens s2 #good omens season two #good omens spoilers #rambling #that tag hasn't been used in sooo long #good omens meta #good omens rambling

[revacholian-girl-utena]

There are no stars. There is no light. There will be no future. (Requested by @thediscoelysiumlesbian )

Alt text: Screencaps from Revolutionary Girl Utena with overlaid text. 1: A closeup of Anthy's eyes, hair down and no glasses, staring down Utena in the moment she discovers Akio abusing Anthy. Text: "Oh, yes."

2: A closeup of Utena's eyes, wide with shock, from the same scene. Text: "This is real darkness."

3: A framed photo of Akio and Anthy, half in shadow as the window shades rise to reveal the room. Text: "Real darkness has love for a face."

4: Anthy's silhouette, hair flying wildly, pierced by many blades. Text: "The first death is in the heart." End alt text.

#revolutionary girl utena #disco elysium #anthy #utena #akio #requests #csa tw #this one i had to think on for a long time #the thing about that quote from dora is that she mentions csa as not being true darkness #meanwhile the central thesis of rgu #is that domestic abuse and especially csa is one of the most devastating examples #of darkness that wears love for a face #i remember bristling at that quote when i first read it honestly lmfao #bc i was like why would you bring csa into this? #but i suppose it goes along w dolores dei being a sort of symbol of moralism #treating death and war and child molestation as extreme abstract concepts #and not the same realities that literally define almost every detail and interaction and character in this game #anyway ty for this request it gave me lots of food for thought!

[veliseraptor]

my first existential crisis was probably when I was maybe nine or ten and i came to the hysterical realization that i had no way of knowing that what i saw in the world around me was anything like what my friend saw. not in a metaphorical sense but a literal one. like, how do I know that my perception of what a given, individual jellyfish looks like is the same as somebody else's? i don't! i can't! language is the best means i have of trying to figure it out and language is fallible and subjective too

picture me, vibrating at summer camp, contemplating how the truth of a shared reality is unknowable and maybe there's no such thing as reality at all

#important text posts #the whole 'what color is the dress' thing #was deeply distressing to me for this reason #i mean also fascinating! and i'm more tolerant now than i used to be #but every so often if i think about it too much #and start going #I HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING THAT I AM EXPERIENCING A WORLD ANYTHING LIKE THE ONE OF PEOPLE AROUND ME #REALITY IS UNSTABLE AND DEFINED BY INHERENTLY UNRELIABLE PERCEPTION #then i start getting freaked out about it #unreality cw #is maybe a good tag here?

[rawliverandgoronspice]

TLOZ translations always seem to be a bit shitty. I still see people talk about the weird translation of the Demise monologue at the end of SkSw. I think someone said that Demise was more general with his statement, as in there will always be forces from the demon tribe fighting against the light or smth? Not specifically "us three will always fight". (I've read it a few times, but hard to remember, sorry.) (On the topic of SkSw, I kinda dislike how much it impacted theories within TLOZ, some theories are really cool, don't get me wrong. But now, even games that existed for years before suddenly are being pushed to fit with the lore presented in that game. Ganondorf being the best example: He no longer is his own character who did bad things because of his own will and actions, it's now "He did it all because an evil curse made him do it. He had no choice, he was born as a vessel for the demonic lord." The implications that "the curse of Demise" also would mainly go for the already vilified race of the Gerudo, and make their one male an evil warlord is already kinda... yeah... no. (Not to mention that there are other demon lords throughout the franchise that have nothing to do with Ganon.)

Ohh speaking of this I recently saw this post that did a good translation of that very moment, and pretty much confirms what you are mentioning anon; that it's basically a promise of that cycle coming back moreso than Demise himself coming back (especially since his actual and definitive death is a big deal in that game).

But yeah, I agree it has taken a huge space in the way the series is thought about. I pretty much completely missed that hard turn, as I couldn't play Skyward Sword when it released and wasn't super into Zelda afterward anymore (I had gotten too edgy.... 2011 was the year where I got obsessed with every horror videogame in existence basically except for Resident Evil for some reason I could never get into that series ANYWAY WAY off topic........), so coming back a few years later had me very ???? puzzled about how the theories had reconstructed themselves around Hylia and Demise and endless cycles (it's not that it wasn't a thing before, but I wouldn't say it was as much a Series Trademark as it is now).

But yeah. Ganondorf having his own motivations makes him immediately stronger as an antagonist, especially since his deal is quite complicated all things considered.

I am having a thought about how a lot of Zelda villains' motivation is a sort of rebellion against nature. I have scratched enough digital paper about Ganondorf's situation, but like... Minish Cap Vaati is also very much motivated by his refusal to remain small and whimsical and seize power instead of staying in his lane (and then he gets horny in Four Sword so, maybe let's not go there), Zant is.... Zant, Hilda in A Link Between World has been cosmically punished for trying to reject the Goddesses and create a world on its own terms --like SERIOUSLY this is HORRIFYING I feel like we don't talk enough about how utterly nightmarish of a reality that paints for Hyrule as a whole-- Girahim is devoted but fights for the side more or less destined to lose... It's interesting how Hyrule is hostile to change and anything that threatens the statut quo.

(then you have the occasional Majora and Yuga, whomst I dooon't think really fit the above category --to their full credit! and then you have Bellum, who is..... a blob...... And I don't remember enough from either the Oracles game or about Malladus to put them in either category, I need to replay those games)

Hyrule really has this frightening quality to it when you stare at it for too long: that your two only options are to either graciously submit to your assigned cosmic role, or fight it and become darkness incarnate in some way. A Link Between World showed, quite starkly, that trying to escape that binary choice is *not an option*.

#asks #thoughts #totk #ganondorf #demise #skyward sword #vaati #hilda #zant #girahim #a link between worlds #minish cap #thanks for the ask!! #sorry I'm getting through them now that I'm not dying as much from covid #I fell over because I had too much fever #fun + normal #but yeah weirdly enough I think this is what compels me about the series now more than anything else #what can one do in such a reality how do you self-define what is freedom what is agency #man a link between worlds is such a good game tho #see this is why I had higher standards for totk's worldbuilding

[altschmerzes]

idk how to express or articulate this exactly but there’s something deeply worrying and hurtful to me to look around the aromantic tags and see constant posts talking about “expanding” or “reclaiming” the word/concept of love away from like. just romantic. like “oh if other aros want to expand/widen the concept of love to include them that’s fine but i dont” or whatever and that’s all well and good but i am vehemently against the idea that love as a concept has to be expanded to include me. it already includes me.

a lot of people will often say love as a shorthand for romantic love and trust me as a romance repulsed aro trying to live in this world im excruciatingly aware of that, but the idea that it ONLY means that EXCLUSIVELY as a broad concept is like……. no? the idea that love is also platonic, also includes things like family, pets, friends, etc is… not an expansion. it’s not a shift in the definition. it is already there. it is already a legitimate part of the word. people saying “oh love can be platonic to, uno reverse now YOURE the bad one” when aros point out the problem with posts implying romantic love is the centre of everything are not the same as aros pointing out that love is a word that belongs to us too and doesn’t need to be expanded or changed or broadened to do so. i find it deeply upsetting to see people talking like that with zero pushback. you might not be comfortable with the word, but do not take it away from me or scare people off it by insisting it’s only ever romantic and we, as a broad group or a society on the whole, are all on the same page about that.

love belongs to me. it’s always belonged to me. it doesn’t need to be changed to do so. it doesn’t need to be expanded. it always DID belong to me, and trying to retroactively define us out of it, even while trying to say it’s fine to want to be included in it or expand it to include us, isn’t fair or even factually accurate.

#gav gab #aromantic #aro blogging #sorry i do this every so often #been having some. difficulty. with the way some conversations have been going in the community tags lately #we don’t need to expand love. it’s already expanded. it’s already broad. #you don’t have to like or use it but don’t use ‘it only ever means romance unless aros do some kind of radical reclamation thing’ as why #don’t shut me out of love to defend why you don’t want a part of it #it’s oversimplifying things and ignoring the practical reality we live in #you’re entitled to not like the word or not want to use it but others don’t have to CHANGE IT to use it #love is an action to me anyway it’s not really a feeling. i couldn’t define feelings if i tried #it’s an action. a choice. etc.

[brookheimer]

what is it with this past 24 hours and absolutely baffling takes on the last episode

#like y’all think kendall had every right to ignore rome’s wishes to not have the abuse leaked bc roman is living in a dream world where #logan wasn’t abusive and needs to be brought back down to reality???????? y’all think he loses the ability to have a stake in this decision #bc his abuse is so deeply internalized that he excuses logan’s actions for it??????? it’s one thing to say ken made the smart move but it’s #a whooooole other one to act like he didn’t even do anything bad at all. you do realize they explicitly mentioned leaking the physical #abuse right? you do realize rome was the only one (we know at least) to have been phys abused? you think kendall is right to leak that info #to the masses?????? that would literally define roman’s life. like he’d be The Roy That Logan Beat. how the fuck is he supposed to grieve #his very-recently-dead father let ALONE heal from his abuse if roman’s forced to relive it in the public eye 2 days after logan dies #like the experience of having that leaked will be infinitely worse roman than for kendall bc he will be singled out as the only one logan #hated enough to beat and boy do tabloids love physical abuse and kendall is WAY closer to coming to terms w the abuse than roman who #really really needs to work through that shit before idk it becomes public domain #like idk if that’s what WILL happen but it certainly fuckin could. we have no rzn to think it wouldn’t!!!! #this isn’t like a Uniquely Evil Move from ken or anything it’s a pretty classic succession maneuver i’m not saying he’s the devil or smth #like… at all. but it’s still not a Great Thing To Do? especially to roman????? #seen this take multiple diff times now. insane <3 #it’s wrong to act like this is the single worst thing any character haa ever done (a take i have not seen but i digress) but it is also very #wrong to act like it literally wasn’t even bad #seen this take at least four times so i’m not talkin ab any one person or thing in particular just like… dude. cmon #succession #succession spoilers

[notastranger]

Opinions Do Not Define Your Reality Wallpaper

#opinions do not define your reality #wallpaper #phone wallpaper #phone #phone lockscreens #lockscreens #motivation #motivational #affirmations #affirmation #motivational affirmation #inspiring quotes #inspiration #purple #purple stars #purple wallpaper #purple lock screen #galaxy #celestial #starry vibe

[im-smart-i-swear]

diversity win! your evil clone has pink hair and pronouns now

#vld #kuron vld #vld kuron #clone shiro #everyone look at my favourite stupid dumb guy pretty please #theyre not a man and not a woman and if youd ask for clarification theyd say theyre nonbinary for simplicitys sake #but. in reality i think buddy doesnt really like labelling themself #for them picking a set identity feels way too restricting. theyre just doing whatever #they dont care #they have a fuck ton more importrant things to care about than what label defines their gender best #so like.. they are nonbinary. but also not really???? they dont give a fuck honestly i think #good for them i guess! #my art #my funky guys

[bylertruther]

me whenever i remember the extremely obvious and purposeful almost exactly the same like line for line brenner and mike parallels

#you have lied / why do you lie + from mike #you made me look for him / all of s1 #what have you done? / what did you do? #you speak of monsters superheroes that's the stuff of myth n fairytales reality truth is rarely so simple ppl are not so easily defined / #all of the you're a superhero + superman stuff coming after she tells him she doesn't belong n is generally unsure of herself n #saying she's not a superhero anymore blahblah #every time i rmr i jus have a moment like tht rudd gif i rly do #they were craysee for tht one #brenner on one side hitting milkvan with a cannonball n will on the other side trying to patch the holes with gum n deploying a life boat

[canirim]

I hate people that go "oh but what if this is all a simulation" and decide that they must be the only "real" person bc

Yeah, what if? Why is that suddently a reason for you to be a jerk to the """"""NPCs"""""", be selfish and cruel?

Why is your first instinct when questioning reality "how does it benefit ME?"

#like even if others arent “”“real”“” (first of all what do you define as REAL - being like you? being organic? being sentient? a human? #) why do YOU want to be like that? why don't you want to make things better for everyone? #you may not understand the NPCs and they may not understand you #but in the end of the day....why would you be cruel? #idk just Thoughts TM #I've gone through this question of 'what is reality' at about 7 years old and my conclusion back then is the same today #it doesnt matter if its real or not #i will treat others with the kindness i would like to be treated #cani rambles #NPC #main character syndrome #unreality #npcs

[peridotite]

im still reeling from gohan outright stating that he doesn't like fighting. everything he's been through since he was 4 years old up to adulthood. and he doesn't like fighting. every exhausting training he's had, every battle he's ever fought, every victory or defeat, every villain he's ever had to face for the sake of the world. and he doesn't like fighting. he's just a kid who wants to make the people he loves proud

#ok like obviously gohan hits different fpr me bc he's been my fave since i was a tiny child but like. he's just so different from the rest #goku and krillin and the others wanted to be fighters. saiyans want to fight. piccolo likes it too he spends his free time getting stronger #goten and trunks want to fight. even future trunks was eager to follow in gohan's footsteps and likes training #but gohan was just a kid violently thrust into world defining battle after world defining battle #he never wanted to be a fighter #its just the reality he was born into #he constantly states that ''im the son of goku!'' so he Has to do this he Has to defeat them but he just wants to be a researcher!! #he's a little kid with no friends his age except an also traumatized alien child #bc he spent his entire childhood either fighting for his life or training til his bones broke or locked in his room studying advanced shit #his best friend is his mentor/surrogate dad who kidnapped him and beat him up and abandoned him in the wild for 6 months when he was FOUR #(ily piccolo) #anyway. i love gohan im glad he lives a happy life in his adulthood (ignoring whatever the hell happens in dbs and dbs super hero) #my posts #dbz #gohan

[cluster-b-culture-is]

Cluster B culture is having a cozy overly simplistic narrative that you ruined your life and all your friends hate you and don't look back ever and I'm the worst and freaking out, losing your mind when that is challenged and maybe your not the worst person ever born and some people might be able to forgive you and your fine, maybe you did a bunch of stupid shit when you didn't have all the information, but that's fine, that's normal, your mortal, you have limited knowledge, calm down!

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#cluster b culture is #cluster b #npd #aspd #bpd #hpd #Mod Reef #anonymous #MOOD #everyone else moves on from my mistakes far faster than i do. but how can i move on from them when my mistakes are what define me? /s #in reality it's just me being paranoid that my mistakes are foreshadowing of future failures and loss #buuuut i'm not gonna unpack that. i'd rather eat this homemade pizza