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user-inactivated  ·  3391 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are the topics you wish were discussed more on Hubski?

    Like a certain other news site

What, Reddit? It's not Voldemort, my friend. Nothing bad happens when you call it by name.

    If this site got bogged down too much in any one particular area, I might stop using it.

Do you feel like Hubski is, or starting to, or on its way to?

    I'm way more interested in on-the-ground things people are doing in their local communities

Like what?

    Maybe a tag is the way forward for this, say, #newsanalysis.

Perhaps, it's your opportunity to make it happen. People turned out to be interested in Russia after I started #russiabynatives.

What's Critical Theory? I've never heard of it.





pyrrhonic  ·  3391 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Do you feel like Hubski is, or starting to, or on its way to?

Well, this is only my third day here, so I'm really not sure. I've noticed a lot of users with a background in Comp Sci, but I suppose that comes with the territory. But even then it's a barely noticable whn it comes to content.

    Like what?

There's been a lot of push-back in recent years against local ordinances and homeowners' associations that forbid gardens or keeping chickens. There's efforts at community-based conflict resolution. Sometimes this is to deal with teenagers doing stupid teenager things, which has kept them from getting caught up in the prison system. The hollowing-out of the American economy has left its mark on many small towns, but some are bucking the trend and revitalizing.

    What's Critical Theory? I've never heard of it.

Writers like Foucault, Derrida, Adorno, Deleuze and Guattari. It's what's popular among a lot of folks in academia. I know there's some really insightful stuff there, but it's only coming out of the ivory tower at a slow trickle.

user-inactivated  ·  3391 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Writers like Foucault, Derrida, Adorno, Deleuze and Guattari.

But what is Critical Theory? I've never heard of it, though I believe I can piece together the general idea.