Things I Promise Myself I Will Not Do On The Internet
1) Begin paragraphs with the phrase, "The propadeutic comments I have just made..."
2) Ask people if they are making assertoric or normative claims to validity.
3) Insert German words after something I've said to clarify my meaning. There is no forseeable reason I would need to make clear that I'm talking about Sittlichkeit, rather than some other form of life, in any context. At least on the internet.
4) Begin referring to my meta posts as regulative speech acts. (LOL, as if I were enough of a BNF to make regulative speech acts for fandom.)
5) Structure my sentences primarily through the use of italics such that, if one were to want to quote them, it would require a frustratingly frequent use of the control-i key combination.
6) Assign single letters so much meaning that people, years later, in conversations, will say, well, you're talking about U, right?
7) Explain exactly what set of theoretical moves my challengers will use against me, dismiss each of them while moving to the next round, and then generously agree to meet my interlocutor half way on the last point, without actually making any of the arguments.
8) Make an icon saying PERFORMATIVE CONTRADICTION! (Wow, now I'm trying to come up with the best single image from XF canon to use for such a thing. That could be awesome.)
9) Refer to all future flounces as "voluntarily terminating membership in the community of beings who argue. "
10) End my posts by saying, "I cannot develop this idea farther here."
This post brought to you by the feeling "Why the fuck am I spending my vacation working?"
Bonus points if you can identify the theorist and/or text I've been working with from this.
2) Ask people if they are making assertoric or normative claims to validity.
3) Insert German words after something I've said to clarify my meaning. There is no forseeable reason I would need to make clear that I'm talking about Sittlichkeit, rather than some other form of life, in any context. At least on the internet.
4) Begin referring to my meta posts as regulative speech acts. (LOL, as if I were enough of a BNF to make regulative speech acts for fandom.)
5) Structure my sentences primarily through the use of italics such that, if one were to want to quote them, it would require a frustratingly frequent use of the control-i key combination.
6) Assign single letters so much meaning that people, years later, in conversations, will say, well, you're talking about U, right?
7) Explain exactly what set of theoretical moves my challengers will use against me, dismiss each of them while moving to the next round, and then generously agree to meet my interlocutor half way on the last point, without actually making any of the arguments.
8) Make an icon saying PERFORMATIVE CONTRADICTION! (Wow, now I'm trying to come up with the best single image from XF canon to use for such a thing. That could be awesome.)
9) Refer to all future flounces as "voluntarily terminating membership in the community of beings who argue. "
10) End my posts by saying, "I cannot develop this idea farther here."
This post brought to you by the feeling "Why the fuck am I spending my vacation working?"
Bonus points if you can identify the theorist and/or text I've been working with from this.