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stra-tek · 6 months

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Big List of Universes in Star Trek:

Prime

Where most of Trek takes place. TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC, LWD, PRO, PIC, SNW etc. Gets a bit complicated in that the Temporal Wars from Enterprise have explicitly rewritten some events but for the most part it's all one enormous continuity. Just don't ask about the Eugenics Wars

Kelvin

Where the rebooted movies take place, essentially Prime until the day of Jim Kirk's birth, when a Romulan from the Prime future appears and begins wreaking havok, sending events on a familiar but different path with more running and explosions

Mirror

The morally inverted version of the Prime universe. Often the same people in the same place at the same time as Prime except under radically different circumstances. The Kelvin timeline has it's own mirror universe and the Coda books imply they're different sides of the same coin so perhaps every universe has it's mirror. Everyone dresses very slutty and all the women are at the very least bi. Almost as if it was written by men to appeal to teenage boys.

The First Splinter

Where the entire Star Trek novelverse takes place. Essentially Prime up until First Contact, although many events after that tie into ones hundreds of years before so it's all a bit complicated. Hundreds of stories exist here, as varied and amazing and sometimes awful as the TV shows and movies. Erased from history in 2387 but everyone you've loved and read about for years die horrible, horrible deaths first

Megas Tu

Accessed through a portal at the centre of our galaxy, a universe where magic is real and the source of many Earth myths and legends. Lucien is Satan but he's actually a pretty cool guy. Kirk and Spock learned to use magic there.

Parallels

300,000 universes converge, ranging from ones where Worf has a different painting in his quarters to him banging Troi to the Borg having conquered the Federation

Reverse

Black stars on a white void, ships fly backwards, at warp 36, the elderly grow young and live backwards and I'm afraid to ask how this reverse life ends

Second History

From the novel Killing Time. Super gay and angsty. Romulans alter history, leading to Spock being captain and Jim Kirk being a drug addict ensign on the V.S.S. ShiKahr

Renegades

A bootleg version of Star Trek in a fan film universe, altered on day two of filming after the Axanar drama began. It's Star Trek with the serial numbers just barely filed off. The Confederation instead of the Federation, Sector 6 instead of Section 31, Kovok instead of Tuvok, Jemison instead of Uhura, Rigillians instead of Romulans and so on. 2 novels were released which try to differentiate the universes more clearly, and the last Renegades film Ominara re-reboots the whole thing and features an Uhura-ish character and the Star Trek ish sets, but otherwise everything else is different.

Fascistverse

Created by Q to test Jean-Luc and friends in season 2 of Picard, this was along the lines of the Mirror universe but with a divergence point in 2024, if Trump wins the election if Picard's ancestor Renee goes into space or not.

Musical

A crossover with this universe in SNW "Subspace Rhapsody" leads to the quadrant singing uncontrollably, accompanied by music and with full choreography.

#star trek #star trek discovery #star trek aos #star trek the original series #star trek picard #star trek kelvin timeline #mirror universe #tng #ds9 #enterprise #voyager

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grandhotelabyss · 3 years

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This is the public-facing rhetorical move par excellence of the radical academic theorist: revel in your radicalism in the seminar room and peer-reviewed journals, but describe your program in the most bland, banal, who-could-possibly-object way for general audiences. Did you know that Marxism is “a refusal to take things for granted”? Why not “follow your dreams” while we’re at it? Never mind the part where “[w]e shall put you in front of a good wall and shoot you,” to quote a poem of Brecht’s. You see this today, too, with the left-identitarians, thinkers who have a nihilistically extensive critique of liberal society—who posit in fact the urgent need to destroy this society—and then, when queried by the public or its representatives, will reply that it’s just about treating people fairly, dude.

But to give the formulation its due, if you truly take nothing for granted, if you never silence the critical intellect, you will in your own mind delegitimize your state and every state, the lives of your neighbors and then your very own life, and you will shoot yourself in the head, as in the aforementioned fictional case of Leo Naphta and the nonfictional one of Mitchell Heisman, possibly after you’ve shot some others à la Brecht or Naptha’s model Lukács, because the critical intellect left to its own devices will annul first the world and then itself. Which is why the profoundest thinkers, i.e., novelists and poets and playwrights, have always suggested a plunge into contact with reality to arrest deconstructive thought processes, from Hamlet to Herzog. Make art, make crafts, have sex, have a child, take a walk, take a drink, dig a garden, plant a tree, get revenge, get a cat—anything at all to remind you that the critical intellect allows itself to be annihilatingly disappointed at the world’s corruption only because it has lost touch with it, literally, and that criticism’s proper service to humanity is as guide and guardrail to action, not as universal solvent.

(Note the details of Hamlet’s example: he only had to kill one person, but deconstructive thought processes made him responsible in whole or part for at least four other deaths and made him suicidal as well; only when he resolved to “let be” could he strike his sole legitimate target, but by then the collateral damage was so great that he forfeited his own life and his country was conquered. A parable for the would-be revolutionary.)

Deconstruction at its best reminded us of these truths, as implied by the quotation from Montaigne that introduces Derrida’s epochal essay on “Structure, Sign, and Play,” but because it was premised on the very purity it set out to debunk—the centered structure organized by neat binary oppositions—it became a very purist argument for impurity. There’s always another binary to undermine over the horizon, always something else and more you could be doing to decenter; so deconstruction finally lent itself to the deranged purity spirals that have marred intellectual life recently. What deconstruction says about strong texts’ essential non-essentialism is basically right, but strong texts achieve this irreducible complexity on tides of emotion that criticism of all sorts has always been bad at capturing, making them elements of reality as well as interpretations of it.

I append all of the above to Leo Robson’s excellent essay-obituary for J. Hillis Miller, from which I draw the opening quotation. This witty catalogue is my favorite paragraph in the piece:

You might say that the effect of deconstruction, in its literary-critical mode, was to augment a presiding canon of largely B-writers (Baudelaire, Benjamin, Borges, Blanchot, etc) with a group of H-figures (Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger, Hopkins, to some degree Hawthorne and Hardy), and to replace a set of keywords beginning ‘s’ – structure, sign, signifier, signified, semiotics, the Symbolic, syntagm, Saussure – with a vocabulary based around the letter ‘d’: decentring, displacement, dislocation, discontinuity, dedoublement, dissemination, difference and deferral (Derrida’s coinage ‘différance’ being intended to encompass both). And there was also a growing role for ‘r’: Rousseau, rhetoric, Romanticism (one of de Man’s books was The Rhetoric of Romanticism), Rilke, and above all reading, a word that appeared, as noun and participle, in titles of books by de Man, Hartman, and most prominently Miller: The Ethics of Reading, Reading Narrative, Reading for Our Time, Reading Conrad.

Also this fun fact: “as late as 2012, [Miller] had never read anything by Samuel Richardson.” I am always fascinated by the gaps in brilliant scholars’ reading, and the more time I spent in academe the more I noticed how large the gaps really were. A generalist-dilettante, I try to read a little bit of everything and am consequently bad at being a completist of any one subject or author that a scholar necessarily is. I’ve read Pamela but not Clarissa; for that matter, I’ve read around in Derrida and De Man but, except for his rather psychedelic 2002 primer On Literature, not so much in the late and lamented J. Hillis Miller.

Further reading: my short story, “White Girl,” a dramatization of deconstructive thought processes in action, partially inspired by what I was seeing right here on Tumblr a little less than a decade ago.

#j. hillis miller #literary theory #literary criticism #literature #leo robson #deconstruction #marxism

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cryptodictation · 4 years

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'I wanted to tell my story', says Djonga about the newest job

(photo: Daniel Assis / Divulgao)

Five young people staring at their bodies on the floor was the image chosen to illustrate the cover of the rapper's new album Djonga, Stories of my area. The choice criticizes everyday violence and contrasts the statistics, combining with the work, which tells the stories of the Quebrada in which the singer was born. With Daniel Assis signing the cover photo, produced by Coyote Beatz, mixed by Arthur Lima and Djonga supervising everything, the album was released on March 13, one year after the last release.

With Stories of my area, the artist chose a subject that speaks properly to be inspired: life itself. Djonga transmits through music the experiences divided between the daily life of the East Zone of Belo Horizonte, his relationship with family and friends, in addition to his success as a rapper. “I wanted to tell people my story and make them remember theirs and because the creation you had was so important, the friends you were with and forget, even, all the porn, these little things that they often create trauma to us. So, I wanted to tell my story and make people remember theirs, because all areas of Brazil look alike. Sometimes, when I'm talking to the guys, they tell me about their stories, their areas, and pretty much the same thing, ”says Djonga.

In this album, Djonga's intimate and familiar relationship is marked, which corroborate the reality of many families. udios from friends and a song for daughter, Iolanda, were some of the choices of the album. Breaking the rappers' stereotype to be strong and tough, he shows once again the parental and sentimental side of the song. “Strength comes from weakness and weakness comes from strength, one cannot live without the other. The good thing about talking about fatherhood is that you can try to put something on the heads of the kids who are having children now. I hope that, God willing, we will have a very different generation of these parents who abandoned their children, you know? I hope it is a more responsible generation and if I contribute to it, if I change one person, I know that I will change several ”, he reflects.

Djonga continues to bet on the multiplicity of sounds and compositions. Amid the boombap, acoustic, funk and trap rhymes, he explores the extremes and the lyrics to emphasize his emotions and those on the other end of the line: those of the listener. Comprising 10 tracks, all by the singer, the album also won contributions from Don Juan, FBC, Bia Nogueira, NGC Borges and Cristal. “I always write all of them. Me and the people who participated, so the part of Bia she composed, Don Juan, the FBC, each one who participated did their part. But all I sang there was I who wrote it. It is a hard process because, at the same time that you are making a record, you are experiencing the universe of the other in shows ”, he says.

“A record that his title came after, I usually think of the title, the idea and the concept first, and then I start to do it. This time, it was the other way around, the concept came up, the title came from the middle to the end. I went to find out exactly what I was talking about. I realized that I was telling about the stories of my area there. I had put another name in the beginning, I thought I would talk about the parade, but in the middle of the way I realized that I was telling a lot about the stories of my area and how much that was important to me at that moment “, he completes.

Repercussion

In a few days of release, the songs that make up the work have great repercussions in reproductions on YouTube and plays on Spotify. Track The guy with glasses, feat with Bia Nogueira, reached more than 3 million views on the platform. “It is wonderful, I have nothing to complain about. We are hitting very good views, the comments are very positive, the affection that people do, are really enjoying the work and spreading it. As soon as we can really talk about results, I think the rest of the year we will see better what we have achieved and what the record will mean for my career. But so far I can say that I am too happy ”, says the rapper.

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This success is so notorious in the rapper's career that in Today, not one of the lyrics of this album, he says: “171 for me is no more crime, your guard / the number in millions of my Spotify streams”. According to Djonga, the high number of people following his work has always been the goal. “If it wasn't, it was better to work in another area. There are times when I wake up knowing that I am Djonga, there are times that I am only Gustavo (Christian name). I think that fame is just one thing among many others. You choose when you value it more or less, you know? I am still conquering, I am very young, I am only 25 years old, I still cannot have a clue about anything. It is time to want even more, to fight tooth and nail for a place in the sun, because a lot of walking, there are many people who have been walking for much longer, there are many new people arriving ”, he says.

Even at a young age, the singer has four albums: Heresy, The boy who wanted to be God, Thief and Stories of my area. In each of these works, the music “does not lose its release”, as he says, always composed of poetry and passion, but their difference is in the composer himself. “I feel like a more mature, more responsible guy, both artistically and as a person. I think that today I understand much more what I mean and what each word I say means. Not what I didn't understand before, but now I understand a lot more and I see that I have to be a much more responsible guy like that. I have two children now. it is an intense process that does not stop. Being a parent or me is a process that lasts forever. So, it makes all the difference, maybe today I'm a sweeter, more emotional guy, you know? This changes from the other records, today I am more concerned ',' says Djonga.

Representativeness

In addition to talent, Djonga gains more and more fans for positively representing black people, from the Quebrada and who seek to have great achievements in life. In the song Oto patam, the singer admits that he speaks the “language of the brothers” and does his art with a focus on the black smile.

“Today, I know the weight of my name, not only for the music scene, for blacks in general, and that goes beyond music. Aside from luck, which is part of the process, and the talent I gained with a lot of effort, always training, that's the rest (representativeness). Since being able to communicate with my ancestors, me, father and grandfather, in addition to being able to communicate with the brothers on my street, all of that. Apart from talent and luck, all of that (representativeness). This is what makes so many people hear and identify themselves ”, adds the rapper.

Three questions / Djonga

What the songs of Stories of my area mean to you?

I think that making art is always an achievement, in the sense that you are developing, as an artist, as a person. So, these songs, for me, mean a very strong conquest of confidence, as an artist. There are 10 songs that mean a lot of feeling. a record that, perhaps, is not so simple to understand for many, because it is an album made for those who live there (from the broken), so for them, it is easier to understand, because a record that takes us to a very strong place . a disc with a very large sentimental charge and at the same time means evolution of my work, achievement and courage.

Today is not the only track that has a clip so far. How important is the message of that song to the album?

For me, as a person, this song is very important because I was able to tell a story the way I wanted to tell it for a while, with the aesthetic … I had a long time looking for it, a storytelling song the way it was, in a way not to be boring or boring and not just people, but I also identified myself. It's a song that I identify with a lot. I think it's one of the most important ones on this album in terms of my artistic evolution, of something I love to do. I was very happy to be able to make this song. It is important to me, not only as a record song, but as a Djonga song. It was very important to have done it. a step in my career. The clip also managed to adopt a very important aesthetic for the moment that we live.

What do you still miss in your career?

I am always dissatisfied. Good satisfied artist to stop, see? he better look for something else, travel, have fun. I make a stop that never ends, the end of it the coffin. So what remains to be satisfied is everything, everything I can achieve and I have not yet achieved. Everything, I want everything. I want to go where I have been given, as far as the universe allows, I want to go.

* Interns under the supervision of Igor Silveira

(photo: Daniel Assis / Divulgao)

Stories of my area

From Djonga. For the Supper, 10 tracks. Available on all digital platforms.

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