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The critic Roy Christopher has called irony “the most abused trope of our time, a ‘get out of judgment free’ card, an escape route, an exit strategy.”
Ian Bogost • Play Anything
anything could mean anything; an author’s intent did not matter, could not in fact be discerned; there was no such thing as an obvious or commonsense reading, because everything had an infinitude of meanings. In short, there was no such thing as truth.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
If content is king, then context is queen.
We can all enjoy creative work as a pure sensory experience. YES.
But it’s when we get context for that work — who made it, how it was made, what ideas, scenes, and history surround it — that joy turns into a deeper appreciation — one of... See more
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With any writing, a text taken out of context is a pretext for error.
Douglas Groothuis • Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith
Without the backdrop of the looming threat in Westeros, this is just a weather report. Within the series, it’s an ominous warning of existential danger. Viewing quotes out of context is like trying to understand a movie by watching one scene: inherently incomplete.
Amelia Wattenberger • LLMs are a tool for thought
Today, everything wants to be everything. Everything is political and everything is aesthetic, and so on. Because everything tries to be everything, nothing can be anything. People substitute words with no limit, and it makes no difference.