[Bulk] Re: Five Works of Theory You Should Consider Reading

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun May 27 11:22:27 CDT 2012


The contemporary theorist is a privlidged deconstructor of the
representational and thus logocentric discourse of privlidged
foregroundings of matters that matter less and are, hyperbolically
speaking, matterless hunting grounds fro snarks. The privlidge of
bathing machines not with stood or with stand or with ings minus the
big W under the bamboo trees where two live as Eliot in his dirty
draws and Pound comes round for tea and ices, not to stand and mention
the impossible things we can no longer mean or say is a slice of the
dead white guy.

> HTML Giant is prone to wanking about theory. Not all HTML's posters do it,
> but there are a couple who have read way too much Derrida, etc. in college.
> They use the dubious verb "privilege" a lot, and say things like: "For
> reasons unknown, some readers still think understanding a text is
> important." (Yeah, I know he later says he was being "hyperbolic and
> snarky," but still.)



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