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[update: interesting discussion taking place here, for those interested. And Eric Olsen has some thoughts here.]
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http://www.erinoconnor.org/blog/
Excellent dissection of pomo and its effects, using the university English department as a case study.
“…..If you go to your average English department, you will not find there a bunch of leftist dissidents plotting for the revolution, or even a bunch of dedicated postmodernists playing with their signifiers. What you will find is a group of well-fed, leisured yuppies drinking cappucino and plotting their next career move. These folks theorize the ills of capital, the institutionalized oppression of western culture, and the discursive dimensions of power first and foremost because it is their livelihood, their ticket to job security and the comfortable lifestyle that comes with it. If theorizing corn starch would get them tenure and earn them professional glory, then they’d do that….. seeing how the rest of the world mocks and reviles them, they call themselves radical and get off on how subversive they are. The reality: what may seem subversive–or just stupid–to the rest of the world is a badge of membership in academic circles….”