<div dir="ltr">And as a side question, whats wrong with Infinite Jest?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Jacob Carey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aristotle114@gmail.com" target="_blank">aristotle114@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I keep hearing about this guy, anyone want to give me the run down on who he is?<br></div><div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:12 AM, David Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm with you.<div><div><span></span><br><br>On Wednesday, May 7, 2014, Lemuel Underwing <<a href="mailto:luunderwing@gmail.com" target="_blank">luunderwing@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Change my mind? I respect the opinions of this list (for a reason that suddenly escapes me) and I would like to keep most of my vitriol away from those dear friends of mine who love Zizek.<br>
</div>They all seem to have a thing in common: they've picked up and never finished <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> but love <i>Infinite Jest</i> -- and that seems, in my more impoverished states of mind, to inform a wider inability on their part to come to terms with Postmodernism without a Very Strong tether of Pop Culture. .<br>
Zizek seems to me to be the worst kind of poseur, regurgitating whatever philosophy book he just read with an unhealthy dose of pop-culture references mixed in. I do not see time being at all kind to him (or to David Foster Wallace, for that matter)<br>
<br></div>What would you recommend I read to change my mind about this guy -- who seems unable to smell his own asshole, and is followed by a plethora of Hipster Youth all eager to suck his Culturally Aware Cock...?<br></div>
<div>What the fuck <i>is </i>Cultural Awareness anymore?<br></div><br></div>
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