Talk:T-shaped skills

Comb-shaped merge
Very simply, a T-shaped person is a specialist who can talk to other specialists.

A comb-shaped person has specialist-level expertise in multiple areas.

I don't think merging comb-shaped with T-shaped makes sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.124.196.30 (talk) 16:10, January 22, 2013 (UTC)

Rhizomatic skills not yet Roundup-ready
I also removed an unsourced, uncited, undefined red link to rhizomatic skills.

A blog post containing this term (at the top of Google search) also attributed the word decalcomania to the same lexicon, so I immediately concluded the original was authored by a couple of graduate students in the humanities on a wank to see what would stick to the wall.

Turns out I was only half right. It's central terminology to the following notable and highly controversial publication:


 * A Thousand Plateaus — 1980

In 1997, the physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont argued that the book contains many passages in which Deleuze and Guattari use "pseudo-scientific language".

Writing about this "science wars critique," Daniel Smith and John Protevi contend that "much of their chapter on Deleuze consists of exasperated exclamations of incomprehension."

Similarly, in a 2015 interview, British philosopher Roger Scruton characterized A Thousand Plateaus as "[a] huge, totally unreadable tome by somebody who can't write French."

At the beginning of a short essay on postmodernism, Jean-François Lyotard lists examples of what he describes as a desire "to put an end to experimentation", including {his} displeased reaction to A Thousand Plateaus that he had {encountered} in a weekly literary magazine, {concerning} which {he suggested} that readers of philosophy "expect [...] to be "gratified with a little sense".

Behind this "slackening" desire to constrain language use, Lyotard identifies a "desire for a return to terror."

Braces are my own best guess.

The humanities are apparently populated by any number of U-shaped people these days, who obtain nutrients from agar just fine, but fail to put down any form of traditional root system when presented with real soil :-)

This is altogether a murky kettle of fish with not much value add to the present article. &mdash; MaxEnt 16:20, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Ought the "T" be italicised?
In the article it refers to the vertical part of the T, but the T is italics, which means the vertical part is actually diagonal. Should it not simply be in quote marks and normal, not italics? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sleyatx (talk • contribs) 20:55, 14 November 2022 (UTC)