My Brother From Another Mother
You find the strangest things on YouTube.
I have to track this guy down. Who would have known my internet heterosexual lifepartner soulmate would go by the moniker the "Hooded Negro"?
You find the strangest things on YouTube.
I have to track this guy down. Who would have known my internet heterosexual lifepartner soulmate would go by the moniker the "Hooded Negro"?
posted by PWS at 11:11 PM
4 Comments:
Oh come on, PWS, Derrida's not the enemy, even if some of his camp followers are foolish. The real enemy is a Leo Strauss or an Allen Bloom, and their neo-con camp followers are worse than foolish.
I hate all three. But I agree-Derrida isn't as harmful in real, tangible, non-theoretical ways (i.e. his philosophy not influencing the deaths of thousands of people).
Boo.
Anti-intellectualism masquerading as hipness. PWS, you should know better.
Actually, if you are in a college (as I am), you will see that it is quite the opposite of "hip" to swear off all Cultural Studies/Deconstructionist/Marxist theory. It absolutely pervades all the Humanities now.
This whole blog is sort of my coming to terms with Western Intellectual history as a young idiot. That said, "anti-intellectualism", would be a valud charge if my only problem with Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze et. al were that they are "hard to understand!", and "French!" (a'la Ann Coulter). There is actually much I agree with when it comes to certain Deconstructionsts, and I consider some influential thinkers to people in that ring, like Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin among people I really admire.
Still-the fact that you cannot take a class in the humanities right now without being forced to be stuffed with idelogical nonsense, historicism, Marxist theory etc., is an absolute death trap. It kills all individuality and makes it a sterile, nihilistic, "everything is meaningless signs and play" wasteland for hip academics to wank endlessly in.
Derrida, however brilliant, is part of the problem, not the solution.
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