I read almost all of Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, Lacan, etc in college. It's what turned me into a scientist, a realist, a skeptic, and a libertarian.
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When I first got to college I wasn't really aware of post-mod, theory, etc. But I quickly learned older, English language scholarship usually published by Oxford or Cambridge U Press were more informative and helpful. I was instinctively shying away from the gibberish.
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I had to teach it!
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Did you wink a lot when saying such delightfully self-contradicting quotes as, “Schools serve the same social functions as prisons & mental institutions- to define, classify, control, & regulate people.” from Foucault whose words have widely been used to control student thinking?
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Actually I liked the panopticon! My pet hate: Iragaray.
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"Irigaray draws upon Karl Marx’s theory of capital and commodities to claim that women are exchanged between men in the same way as any other commodity is." I can see why this would be vexing to a fiercely independent and self-reliant woman like you or Camille Paglia.pic.twitter.com/paWX1PcwtT
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Oh god. Can’t stand Paglia either.
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Whoops! I'm currently reading "Sexual Personae" and finding it interesting. I knew I was taking a chance comparing you as CP does not seem to engender neutral opinions. I just like brash women, like
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Some of us took it seriously
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I guess I must be really blessed to have studied economic & finance, two of the few disciplines in the social sciences untouched by that nonsense.
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Everything I learned about pomo I learned after school, at
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We did modernity think it was and a bunch of other stuff
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Yeah, but some can make a little go a long way...
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As opposed to “figuratively” studying it at university?
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I never had to study this crap. Thank God, we had a dour classical education, back in Lebanon. But there was other crap.
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The concept of literalness seems rather anti-postmodern.
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anti-poststructuralist but not necessarily anti-postmodern
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It should be taught to a certain extent, but maybe it's gone too far, esp in literature, apparently.
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It should be taught mostly so that students would be able to inoculate themselves from it.
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