I find Mia's analysis B99 quite interesting but I can't help but see Michael Schur's formula for comedy throughout the Office, P&R and B99 take on a fairly consistent approach to rehabilitating our feelings about oppressive/broken institutions
Like that's exactly what works, why it's so funny and so comforting: you have these institutions that frustrate the people who work within them and fail the people outside of them but they get wrapped in this optimism about human nature
Which of course is an about turn from the British version of the Office is runs its optimism/cynicism is quite a different way but by the time we reach B99 that optimism is quite unfiltered and seems to compensate for an institution that far more difficult to romanticise
But B99 does it anyway, no matter how hard it tries to be a little critical and reflective l
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I think that increasingly academics need to ask themselves whether merely by virtue of being an academic means it's ethical for them to bring up a topic as an intellectual exercise
This isn't to "limit academic freedom" but rather to realise that their position in society necessarily frames their perspectives. To consider all facets of life/society comprehendable by an academic really kind of reinforces a kind epistemic violence in various directions.
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Especially when that issue is an intellectual exercise for them and a matter of everyday life for others. Pretending that the processes of knowledge-making doesn't reinforce the dynamics of power or recreate them is frankly narcisstic.
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I've clarified this a few times and would not like to repeat myself: I didn't say all autistic people don't do the love languages, I said I personally kind of hate them because I'm autistic. A fine difference, so I understand why people are misreading it.
I often take the burden of misunderstandings on how I communicated things, which is tiring but being on twitter is a useful exercise for me in that respect perhaps? Which is perhaps why I'm don't blame anyone for misreading but I'd like to be better at asserting what I meant
I'm already overly careful in how I phrase things but I also do think that there's some ambiguity in that I'm not sure exactly why I hate the love languages as much as I do and I also can see why it's something a bit personal to others
When I first heard about the concept of gamification I got really excited and even bought a book about it but I was sorely disappointed by what I found.
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First off, gamification usually refers to using an app with game mechanics to encourage certain behaviours. But right off the bat, I dislike how they've defined game mechanics because they only ever mean one type of game: i.e. Point systems, badges, leaderboards etc
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I think from the outset gamification is doomed to fail because most people designing for gamification are primarily concerned with the behavioural outcome and by definition that is not play. Play is, in fact, exploration and testing without concern about outcomes.
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This is so emotionally manipulative I know you don't actually miss me you piece of shit owl
If there's ever been evidence of gameification not working for people with ADHD, it should just be a hundred citations of us using duolingo.
(by gameification I mean the concept of app driven habits)
I got really excited by the concept of gameification because I wanted to make my teaching like Dark Souls then I read a book and realised that gamification in the narrow sense just means point systems on an app 🙃