It's really fitting that #JDVance converted to #Catholicism from #Protestantism. His #theological fights with #church leaders, the #Pope included, were a very #Protestant thing to do, rebelling against #hierarchies and such. Of course, he's an idiot who fancies himself smart, so it was a stupid rebellion.
#hierarchies
yeah .. 'ere's a review on ye olde #cyberpunk #novel titled, #Hierarchies y'all ... donna be square ... read 'n' share ‼️ .. 👽
The first album from noise metallers Hierarchies is self-titled. Review at FFR, https://flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/01/15/hierarchies-hierarchies-transcending-obscurity-2025/ #metal #heavymetal #rock #hardrock #deathmetal #noisemetal #Hierarchies #TranscendingObscurity #TranscendingObscurityRecords #dissonance #dissonantmetal
Hierarchies – Hierarchies Review
By Thus Spoke
Ultra-dissonance is so hot right now.1 Yes, dissonance itself has been a thing for a long time in metal, and in music generally for far longer, but ever since artists picked up what Gorguts threw down and ran with it, this adjective has become associated with ever-increasingly twisted and abrasive soundscapes, the dial of ‘extremity’ moving further and further. The last few years in particular have seen an acceleration of this trend as an explosion of acts offer their take. Enter Hierarchies—formed of members from Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below2—who on their self-titled debut, serve up some more wonky, ugly, technical death metal fun for your listening pleasure (or pain).
If you’ve heard Acausal Intrusion, or any of the artists’ other death metal projects, then you’re some way towards knowing what Hierarchies sounds like. But aside from this, the other most immediate impression I got was the similarity to two acts not associated with Hierarchies’ members: namely, Ad Nauseam and Pyrrhon. Hierarchies is sophisticated in its technicality, but naïve in its sprawling, ugly execution. Chaotic and abrasive, it is replete with jangling percussion and stomach-turning riffs, with squealing chords spliced in, and narrated by gurgling, inhuman roars. The soundscapes substitute suffocation with that uncomfortable spaciousness that makes the wild and twisting (“Consecrate Phenomenon,” “Complexity Parallels”) or uneven and creeping (“Twilight Tradition,” “Subtraction”) disharmonies stand out more obviously. It is neither grand nor groovy, but grotesque, complex in a way that wards off rather than entices easy enjoyment. That’s not pejorative, because, in this genre, you work for your enjoyment and sometimes you just witness the weirdness and grin.
Hierarchies are not easy to paint with one broad stroke. At times, there are glimpses of a more ‘accessible’3 strain of (blackened) death metal à la Gigan or Immolation (“Entity,” “Vultures”). The fact that this opens the album exemplifies one way in which Hierarchies ambushes its listener. Other ambushes would be the flirtations with the (almost) atmospheric by way of quiet, pensive strums (“Twilight Tradition,” “Abstract,” “Vultures”) and genuine slips into swooping melody, though they are caught just before they become anything resembling a refrain (“Dimension,” “Abstract”). Hierarchies play very fast and loose with structure, shifting nonchalantly between tempos, riff patterns, structure, and vibe. It is more or less impossible to tell where a song is going to go, and as Hierarchies, broadly speaking, gets more chaotic and unhinged as it goes on, the album thus walks on the knife edge between exhilarating and exhausting. A gnarly bit of guitar might come skittering down out of nowhere (“Dimension,” “Complexity Parallels,” “Subtraction”), and it might even be sort of beautiful. There might even be the thrill of a repeated pattern, before things get weird again (“Abstract”). The very turmoil and technicality of the music on display is quite arresting, often making up for any lack of structure or harmony (“Twilight Tradition,” “Complexity Parallels,” “Vultures”). Yet, as an entity formed of such compositions, flitting wildly between its elements, Hierarchies overall feels a little fickle and a little too restless, as though someone had their finger on the fast-forward button in a whirlwind tour of disso-death.
Hierarchies is helped and hindered by that spacious production hinted at above. Every jarring, smooth, quiet, and furious note, roar, and beat has a clear voice in the fracas. It makes the impressive technicality and scope of these pieces easier to appreciate than if things were denser, but it also amplifies their intensity, as one can’t help but absorb every tiny detail that encompasses every sudden and swooping switch. This is a multi-layered album that unveils progressively more of its intricacies with each listen, and this in itself is a feat. Yet Hierarchies design things neither for mind-boggling scope, nor for intoxicating frenzy, and the result is a behemoth of undeniable prowess whose vacillation makes it hard to keep in step with.
For all its trials and triumphs, Hierarchies remains a very solid slab of ‘ultra-dissonant’ death metal. Given its members’ experience, it’s no real surprise it’s as strong as it is. But in this era, where smart, mind-bending, and savage interpretations of this extreme genre abound, Hierarchies have not done quite enough to elevate theirs above the norm. If you can’t get enough of this stuff, Hierarchies will serve you well; I’m not about to pretend I didn’t have fun with it. Its stamp on the scene, however, will likely be fairly short-lived for all but the most ardent of fans.
Rating: Good
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320kbps mp3
Label: Transcending Obscurity
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: January 17th, 2025
#2025 #30 #AcausalIntrusion #AdNauseam #AmericanMetal #DeathMetal #DissonantDeathMetal #DwellingBelow #Hierarchies #Jan25 #Pyrrhon #Review #Reviews #TechnicalDeathMetal #TranscendingObscurityRecords
2/ Article focuses on T’s #defamiliarization of common justifications of #violence (with examples), encouraging readers to admit their implicit #complicity & noticing process which numbed them into accepting such complicity
3/ Then reflects on 4 specific #subversive characteristics of defam: #disruption of automated perception, implicit #concession of problem, corrosion of respect for traditional #hierarchies, & encouragement of #empathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR3yCpNgx9o
Matt Bernstein, @taylorlorenz , the reality-based public , the #workingclass
VS.
Mainstream #Media, #Richplaining Millionaires
#LuigiMangione #capitalism #hierarchies #classconsciousness #classwar #PeopleAreFedUp #classunity
#theater as #STSPedagogy can help disrupt #hierarchies & the model of #teaching as information transmission
@caushana M. Berman @gluzmania & @sa_klein's #FeministTheoryTheater as critical embodied pedagogy of reading: https://doi.org/nvzs
Workbook: https://n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4qs3f
#theater as #STSPedagogy can help disrupt #hierarchies & the model of #teaching as information transmission
@caushana M. Berman @gluzmania & @sa_klein's #FeministTheoryTheater as critical embodied pedagogy of reading: https://doi.org/nvzs
Workbook: https://n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4qs3f
Americans hate #freedom. Sure, we sometimes talk a good game about #democracy and self-rule, but consider:
(a) We create authoritarian #hierarchies everywhere we possibly can. Almost all workplaces and schools are miniature autocracies where we leave our rights at the door, and an awful lot of people seem frankly terrified at the thought of not forcing every citizen into these tin pot tyrannies for most of every day.
(b) About 1/3 to 1/2 of the country consistently votes for politicians who restrict or violate what constitutional rights we have even outside work/school.
(c) Many of the 1/3 to 1/2 seem to believe "freedom" simply means they are at the top of the org pyramid--see the state-level tyrannies being built by people objecting to federal-level #tyranny and the predictability of #2A absolutists lining up to be the jack-booted thugs and to shout down any criticism of a #policestate.
#authoritarianism #usa #hierarchy #school #work #highered #hypocrisy
Socialisme libertaire
★ LA DOMINATION ET L’AUTORITÉ NE SONT-ELLES PAS NATURELLES ?
https://mcinformactions.net/%E2%98%85-la-domination-et-l-autorite-ne-sont-elles-pas-naturelles
#pouvoir #domination #capitalisme #hierarchies #egalitarisme #alternatives
#Cats are natural #anarchists who understand all #hierarchies as negotiated and impermanent. The #state was created specifically to protect the power and privileges of #wealth, and it is used to fashion subjectivity in ways that make us passive servants of the status quo.
#MichaelRuse - #Philosophy of #Reductionism & #Emergence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39nn-lKAtw
#PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Hierarchy #Hierarchies #Physics #Biology #WeakEmergence #StrongEmergence #MindBodyProblem #PhilosophyOfBiology #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #Panpsychism #Monism #Dualism #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
#Transgender #athletes face an #uncertain #future at the #Olympics as #antitrans #reactionary #policies gain ground.
A constellation of #white #supremacist, #conservative and #Christian #extremist #groups and so-called "#gendercriticalfeminists" are resisting #feminist and #gender-#inclusive #challenges to traditional #gender and #sexual #hierarchies.
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-transgender-athletes-uncertain-future-olympics.html
Every student should come into contact with these questions early. One of these things is not like the other and one of them describes infinities that subsume the infinities of the other.Wait,what ? How can one infinity be bigger than some other infinity ? Well, they are ! And one is more fundamental. It matters
#Hierarchies
Physical #Mathematics or is it Mathematical #Physics ? #MaxTegmark grapples with some quick philosophy of science on #CloserToTheTruth
https://youtu.be/FIsD70ZLUbo?feature=shared
La semaine prochaine, dans le séminaire en ligne Quo vadis : Simon Suttmann (Fribourg) présente son projet sur les règles du jeu et la pratique sociale de la communication de rang dans le miroir de l'historiographie de l'Italie du Sud vers 1100 👇
https://ow.ly/bTq150Q5vNs
Le séminaire a lieu en coopération avec la Professur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte II (université Freiburg).
Article focuses on T’s #defamiliarization of common justifications of #violence (with examples), encouraging readers to admit their implicit #complicity & noticing process which numbed them into accepting such complicity
Then reflects on 4 specific #subversive characteristics of defam: #disruption of automated perception, implicit #concession of problem, corrosion of respect for traditional #hierarchies, & encouragement of #empathy
Now available ahead of print: "Steep Hierarchies without Skew? Modeling How Ecology and Decision-Making Shape Despotism of Relationships" by Ekanayake-Weber et al. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727702
#hierarchies #ecology #decisionMaking #depotism #relationships
#WabanakiStudies should be taught at all #MaineSchools
OpEd by Hope Carroll, December 26, 2023
"#Wabanaki history is ingrained across #Maine and has deep rooted cultural relationships with major natural landmarks that many of us see everyday. However, there is a concerning gap surrounding the important aspects of our state’s rich Wabanaki history and what little many students learn about it in Maine schools.
"Wabanaki studies need to be consistently incorporated into all Maine school districts. According to a 2022 report done by the #AbbeMuseum, the #MaineACLU, the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission and the #WabanakiAlliance, the Wabanaki studies law passed by Maine in 2001 is not appropriately enforced across the state.
"The law 'requires schools to teach Maine K–12 students about Wabanaki territories, economic systems, cultural systems, governments, and political systems, as well as the Wabanaki tribes’ relationships with local, state, national, and international governments,' the report says.
"The Portland public school system recently incorporated a Wabanaki studies program into its curriculum. This will hopefully be a good example for other districts across Maine and encourage them to do the same.
"Teaching Wabanaki studies will help children gain a better understanding of the state. In time, this can help them develop a closer relationship with the #land and our responsibility to ensure that it is cared for and treated with respect.
"'Through #traditional stories representing the terrestrial and aquatic systems, important [Wabanaki] values are imparted that safeguard culturally significant resources from overuse and ensure the persistence of the people and culture,' says Natalie Michelle, interdisciplinary studies and research assistant of native environmental studies in climate change at the University of Maine.
"It is more important than ever that we look to native science as we face irreversible damage to our climate. We must prioritize implementing these ideals early into the educational careers of children so they go on to practice them throughout their lives.
"Western science and education has taught the ideals of dominance over nature for centuries. This is reflected in practices that have contributed to the #extinction of animals, rises in #NaturalDisasters, food and water shortages and the numerous other effects of #ClimateChange. Instead of connecting with #nature, we are often taught to distance ourselves from the #NaturalWorld. We are taught to use vague and nonspecific naming tools like 'it' to refer to any non-human being.
"'We use it to distance ourselves, to set others outside our circle of moral consideration, creating #hierarchies of difference that justify our actions — so we don’t feel,' says Robin Kimmerer, professor of environmental and forest biology at the State University of New York College of #EnvironmentalScience and #Forestry.
"Kimmerer talks of alternatives to using 'it' to put ourselves on the same level as other living beings, recognizing them as relatives by calling them by their name. But she says that this can be difficult for many of her students because they were not taught these alternatives until now.
"In my experience growing up in Maine and going to school, I never encountered a class focused on Wabanaki studies until college. I am grateful to have this opportunity now. But it has been difficult for me to implement these new ideals into my thinking toward the land around me because they seem so foreign.
"Using the word 'foreign' seems wrong when describing ideals that have been used in Maine since long before any of us were here. But Maine schools and communities have an opportunity to change this.
"Children who grow up in this state have the right and responsibility to know the history of the land around them. They have the right and responsibility to understand the negative implications of #colonization and #ForcedRemoval of the #WabanakiTribes and how despite horrible #historical events, the Wabanaki people have endured and developed their own #sovereign structures.
"In order to create more inclusive classrooms that incorporate all aspects of our state history and work towards building respectful relationships with Maine land, other communities should follow the exciting example being set in #PortlandMaine."
#WabanakiConfederacy #LandBack #IndigenousPeoples
#IndigenousSovereignty #ClimateCrisis #LandStewards
#Stewardship #IndigenousNews #NativeAmericanNews
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