It says something depressing about human psychology that anyone could find Bhabha’s arguments more persuasive than Pinker. Yet many do...
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Homi bhabha was ridiculed as the writer of one of the most postmodernist jargon-laden paragraphs in academia when he was at Sussex in the 90s. I see he's learned nothing and continues to peddle his pseudo-Marxism under the pretense of caring for the 'oppressed'
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Here's the prize-winning sentence: "If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort..
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..to "normalize" formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality" Professor Emeritus of English at Stanford University Marjorie Perloff said that her reaction to Bhabha's appointment to Harvard: ...
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faculty was one of "dismay", telling the New York Times that "He doesn't have anything to say." Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at New York University, remarked on Bhabha's writing: ...
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... "One could finally argue that there is no meaning there, beyond the neologisms and Latinate buzzwords. Most of the time I don't know what he's talking about." Pomo jargon is so ubiquitous by now that academics can't even voice such thoughts. [Wikipedia]
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Well done, Mr. Pinker.
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Bhabha had no answers for Pinker. It did not help that he had to immediately disavow his thesis (in saying that one must look the gift-horse that is the Enlightenment in the mouth, he had clearly implied that the Enlightenment was the cause of the ills he described)
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History can you get past 2000 years or was you one of the godsquad too ?
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