[Bulk] Re: Five Works of Theory You Should Consider Reading
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun May 27 11:25:24 CDT 2012
And, I'll take my slice with the snark if we wnd this waiting for ...
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:22 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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