Simulacra and Simulation is 163 pages. It took me five weeks to read because I needed a lot of breaks to scream, "WHY WOULD YOU WRITE LIKE THIS?!" into my trusty PhD screaming pillow. (P.S. Someone should put a PhD screaming pillow on Etsy.)pic.twitter.com/F5fle5vFdi
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Replying to @generativist
I haven't read it since I did graduate work in anthropology a really really long time ago. But the whole cadre in this genre seems to make you work for it. Designed to formally codify the language somehow and disallow interpretation. I felt smart. But now it seems exhausting.
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Replying to @kccarrell
Yea. Bourdieu's distinction was just as bad if not worse, but at least he gave a rationale (wanted the reader not to consume it as if it were a "smart essay.") I think there's some truth it the positive effect, but I think the negative ones overwhelm.
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