I think I should get danger money for writing about this stuff. There's the headache of reading it, the headache of translating it into more survivable terms for you lot, and the never-ending headache of trying to parse the incoherent objections of their admirers.pic.twitter.com/2k9tpSwX13
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Hahaha. Bad luck. I was actually taught by Homi at Sussex. It was like spending several hours wrestling with a roomful of alphabetti spaghetti. In *Critical Practice* Catherine Belsey warned us about 'the tyranny of lucidity'. Judith Butler preferred the tyranny of obscurantism.
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Wasn’t one of her more fatuous paragraphs a prize-winner?
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Yes, the 1998 Bad Writing award. (I do wish they’d bring that back — it’s still needed).
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Yes. I’m all in favour of the tyranny of lucidity, myself. (Nearly typed tranny of lucidity there. But that’s probably too much to ask for.)
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Ugh I remember Homi Bhabha from grad school. A real dog's breakfast. Academic grifting at its most obtuse. Butler's not that bad in comparison lol
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You are stronger than I am. I would never make it through an hour.
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When I read Homi Bhabha for a moment I thought you meant the father of the Indian nuclear (weapons) program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha …
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Grad student here! Let me know if you need help!
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