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Dragan Starevic's avatar

Hi Ann

You say TU is like a BJJ gym for the mind, yet you don't embrace the idea of free rolling.

What is the theoretical or material basis for this anti dialog approach/environment?

You are blinded by your surrender to finance capital and pmc business mode of operation and have lost sight of self critique or critique by your students.

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Theory Underground's avatar

Hey dude, please go worry about your mental health and take a hint. When 10+ people who have been around for more than 6 months to 2 years think you are messing it up for everyone, that is not "free rolling" anymore. Go away.

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Dragan Starevic's avatar

what about my mental health guppy?

you have a confirmation bias and hear what you want to hear from 10+ people. you are a victim of your own echo chamber.

you call it messing things up is plain old derangement.

open your mind to new techniques and theory lest you fail in your orthodoxy

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Theory Underground's avatar

If your mental health cannot withstand others saying no, stop, less, or please leave, then you need some help. Now please leave us alone and stop harassing us.

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Dragan Starevic's avatar

what does my mental health have to do with asking you questions about your theory? and if my haranguing is pressing on you, so it should. you have misled me, and no doubt others with your grift and now since you couldn't address me politely within your 'fiefdom' as you call it, we have taken this conversation-contradiction outside to the public.

you didnt like me asking for free on youtube stream chats and said its all course gated, so I paid for the courses and you still didn't answer my main question about the mckerracher critical media theory course.

the question being: why is the mckerracher critical media theory anti dialog? you talk a big game with your agora idea but really its just another means of control and power.

so tell me where do you justify this?

i'm sure its in your old stuff somewhere yet you couldn't even point me to it.

one thing i did find was Nina Powers piece which ran counter to your position, "On the necessity of talking" in Unlimited Theory page 259 saying "The day when we can no longer talk to one another, at least in the way we do now, will come soon enough. Keep open the dialogue!"

All you can say to that is "wahhhh, online chat is not the way we talk NOW nor was it ever".

Online chat is still dialogue mate. No one can dispute this. I'd love to see you try. Your Masters in Philosophy of Technology was a waste of time it seems.

Waiting on your considered response.

sincerely Koda

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