[anubidiocane]

But what is the layman term for "hermeneutic dialectic hegemonic whiteness"?

And why a researcher should use it?

Ironically PG founded Ycombinator, which is "an implementation of a fixed-point combinator in lambda calculus"

[DoreenMichele]

Ironically PG founded Ycombinator, which is "an implementation of a fixed-point combinator in lambda calculus"

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The company wasn't called Y Combinator yet. At first we called it Cambridge Seed. But that name never saw the light of day, because by the time we announced it a few days later, we'd changed the name to Y Combinator. We realized early on that what we were doing could be national in scope and we didn't want a name that tied us to one place.

http://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html

Why did you choose the name “Y Combinator?”

The Y combinator is one of the coolest ideas in computer science. It's also a metaphor for what we do. It's a program that runs programs; we're a company that helps start companies.

https://www.ycombinator.com/faq/

Then he named his startup incubator after a LISP function.

https://www.quora.com/How-did-Y-Combinator-get-its-name

I want to say that I read somewhere -- maybe in comments on HN -- that the Lamda part of that is also a reference to the starting letter for Lisp which stuck in my mind due to the mostly forgotten two quarters of Greek I had eons ago. But I'm super short of sleep and can't be arsed to go digging for more explanations/citations for why it got the name it got as random crap to do on a Saturday afternoon while failing to be productive due to the aforementioned lack of sleep.

[dj_mc_merlin]

> But what is the layman term for "hermeneutic dialectic hegemonic whiteness"?

"A deep dialogue on the overwhelming power wielded by white people".

> And why a researcher should use it?

I get that fields have their different choices of jargon, my point is it's hard to misrepresent bad content when it's written like the above example.

> Ironically PG founded Ycombinator, which is "an implementation of a fixed-point combinator in lambda calculus"

touché

[adamsea]

Also want to add to the parent post that "hermeneutic dialectic hegemonic whiteness" is actually just a bunch of keywords and I doubt a competent academic would use that particular phrase.

It's easier for me to imagine, "The hermeneutics of hegemonic whiteness", "The dialectic of whiteness and hegemony", etc.

I have a hard time imagining "hermeneutic" and "dialectic" together because of what those words actually mean. I feel like you'd see one or the other in the kind of phrase / term / sentence we are discussing.

"Hermeneutics" is defined as: "the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts." Back in the day people did close reading/analysis of the Bible so they could understand what God meant and called it hermeneutics. Today it can encompass close reading and analysis of literature (since techniques of analyzing one book - the Bible - also work when analyzing other books) or be used in a more general way to talk about a sort of abstracted, looking-at-the-symbols-within approach to analyzing something.

"Dialectic" is literally a dialogue between two people, the term originating with Ancient Greece and Socrate's approach to philosophy. Hegel retconned it to also include a sort of evolution-through-competition where two things (for lack of a better word) logically opposite to each other butt heads and produce a "synthesis" - not unlike the "marketplace of ideas".

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/

"This “textbook” Being-Nothing-Becoming example is closely connected to the traditional idea that Hegel’s dialectics follows a thesis-antithesis-synthesis pattern, which, when applied to the logic, means that one concept is introduced as a “thesis” or positive concept, which then develops into a second concept that negates or is opposed to the first or is its “antithesis”, which in turn leads to a third concept, the “synthesis”, that unifies the first two "

[philosopher1234]

Your paraphrase loses some of the reference of the original. The terms chosen there have legacies and specific meanings within their disciplines

[Uhhrrr]

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