I think I know what she means. What she means is complete crap of course, but I feel pretty proud of myself
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She is strangely intelligible whilst pointing out how being unintelligible is great, isn't she?
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I mean that's fairly clear as a concept.
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Yes, that was here justifying unintelligibility rather than being unintelligible. I thought that was clear.
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In the world of Lacan-bashing, it’s hard to top Raymond Tallis’ review of Lacan’s biography. http://www.psychiatrie-und-ethik.de/infc/en/Shrink_from_Hell.htm …
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Wow, an exercise in sustained invective. Very nice!
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And very convincing as well. With a strong ripple effect on his devotees.
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The real problem postmodernists have with intelligibility is that if they wrote clear, lucid prose which everyone could understand, the vacuous insubstantiality of their "theories" would become manifestly obvious to all.
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If my ideas were like Judith Butler's, I'd prefer them to remain unintelligible, too.
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Intelligible Judith Butler is not a pretty sight.pic.twitter.com/fdU3BtX51H
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The sloppiness of the prose is typified by the reference to ‘advantages’ when she mentions only one - contesting prevailing social norms. (And incidentally there must be better ways of contesting social norms than being unintelligible!)
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I love you Helen, if you didn't exist we should invent you.
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Butler confuses statistical norms (e.g. word choice) with constitutive norms (e.g. the verb deciding the tense). Something unintelligible is not merely unusual, but it has no grammatical meaning. No logical syntax. Meaning isn't magically breathed into signs, it's grammatical.
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There’s an advantage to being unintelligible if you have no real arguments and don’t want people to oppose your ‘argument’.
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She's right though. Everything else she wrote is wrong, of course, but this statement is correct.
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