alt Hacker NewsIt reminds me of this quote from Judith Butler:
"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power."
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Why? The neural network paper is straightforward and has lots of illustrations showing concrete examples of what happens as images move through the stages of a classifier.
The above quote is from "The world's worst writing".
This is really not that complicated a quote anyway. It is packed full of jargon, but she's talking about moving from a structuralist mindset to one that views power structures as formed contingently from their society rather than structurally from capital.
Not surprising that this philosophical philistinism is from an Anglo publication.
Butlerian Jihad?
Continental philosophers do frequently write complete nonsense (often intentionally), but this isn't hard to follow.
> Althusserian theory
though I think using this term is rather un-feminist because of the part where he killed his wife, but basically continental philosophers will forgive you for anything as long as you're a French communist.