Posted on 02/08/2008 7:30:46 AM PST by bs9021
Ode To a Lost Decade
by: Bethany Stotts, February 08, 2008
Ironically, Professor Wegner openly admitted to what many conservatives heretofore suspected: multiculturalism, gender studies, ethnography, and other disciplines operate under an ideologically-uniform agenda. ...
...Wegner told a standing-room only Modern Language Association (MLA) audience in Chicago that he views September 11, 2001 as a “non-event,” that has meaning which “cannot be reduced to an ordinary description.” “In brief, I argue in my book that no event occurred on 9/11,” Wegner said. Rather, he argues, “9/11 is a repetition of an earlier event...an encounter with the traumatic real that occurs on November 11, 1989.” In other words, these “two deaths”—the fall of the Berlin Wall and September 11—serve as bookmarks on a “distinct historical period” of 1990’s cultural exploration.
This academic utopia is under attack by a conservative post-post-modernism which embraces universalist ideals, Wegner argues. “While unified between otherwise quite disparate projects, is the dialectical return of many of these categories in regards to postmodern theory, including totality, ontology, universalism, truth and utopia,” he said (emphasis added). He continued, “These projects thus mark an authentic negation of the negation, a post-post-modernism, as it were, with the beginning of a movement beyond the epitomies of the postmodern and a return to the radical transformative energy of a new modernism.”
This movement is inherently antagonistic against academic community...and features “a full-blown conservative political movement bolstered by such institutions as Campus Watch and the American Counsel of Trustees and Alumni.” In addition, Wegner believes that proponents of the death of Theory “provide comfort for the attacks on academic freedom and what can and cannot be expressed in the classroom.”....“And it is in these efforts that, in the present moment at least, our common enemies have not ceased to be victorious.”
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Isn’t Campus Watch David Horowitz’s group? Sounds like he and his ilk have got the tenured Marxist weenies feeling a little nervous.
Do what?
Case in point ~ work associate of mine who used to be a professor at Moscow University told me about his student days ~ the assignment in the Communist Theory class was to take a case study and examine it with Hegelian logic and report back in a few days.
Well, he did just that ~ got the case study, analyzed it thoroughly with Hegelian logic, reported back and a few days later he was in a Red Army uniform being transported to the Far East.
His mistake was that he forgot to LOOK UP the Communist Party materials in the school library to see if they'd already arrived at a conclusion, which they had, and his conclusion differed from theirs!
Not that Hegelian logic is faulty, but even the Commies don't really use it.
My conclusion is that Professor Wegner is undoubtedly wrong in some respect he doesn't yet comprehend, and will end up on a train being sent to a place he's only seen on a large world map before.
BTW, this has nothing whatsoever to do with Conservatism.
carolyn
Perhaps he meant the local convention center was empty that day.
I'll wager his book is a riot.
I’m not even sure what I just read.
This movement is inherently antagonistic against academic community...and features “a full-blown conservative political movement bolstered by such institutions as Campus Watch and the American Counsel of Trustees and Alumni.”.....“And it is in these efforts that, in the present moment at least, our common enemies have not ceased to be victorious.”
That’s about conservatism—hating it, in particular.
That academics really talk this way is evidence of their collective flight from reality and plunge into a fantasy world of their own creation. As such, it is a form of literal insanity, voluntarly and collectively shared within the confines of the Academy, where all traces of the outside (Real) world are expunged, often with extreme prejudice. This is why most college campuses today resemble the quaint little seaside town in the 1960s television series “The Prisoner”: Potemkin villages insulated from life and maintained for the purpose of keeping the inhabitants from ever discovering it.
Of course those pukes hate us ~ which is why it's OK to punish them when they get too close ~ well, that and their underarm deodorant problem ~ there's no deodorant there!
There is nothing wrong with the Academic community that couldn’t be solved by obliteration.
Head On! Apply directly to the forehead.
Head On! Apply directly to the forehead.
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Are you sure it wasn't Professor Irwin Cory?
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