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To: Arkansas Toothpick

CU-Boulder has no need of conservatives — what they really ought to do is lure the brilliant Judith Butler (referenced in article at link) with a pot of money and complete freedom to produce more of the great works for which she is already so renowned: /s

http://www.campusreportonline.net/main/articles.php?id=2142

“On the subject of lesbianism, Butler later writes that “Insofar as the phallus is an idealization of morphology, it produces a necessary effect of inadequation, one which, in the cultural context of lesbian relations, can be quickly assimilated to the sense of an inadequate derivation from the supposedly real thing, and, hence, a source of shame.” Professor Butler currently teaches in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California at Berkeley.”

“Professor Birkenstein-Graff openly admitted that Butler’s writings have been repeatedly criticized by public figures as obtuse, if not “bad writing.” In 1999, Butler received the “Bad Writing Award” from Philosophy and Literature. The journal’s editor, Denis Dutton, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “the desperate incantations” of the journals’ contest winners “hope to persuade their readers not by argument but by obscurity that they too are the great minds of the age.” “[Butler’s winning] sentence beats readers into submission and instructs them that they are in the presence of a great and deep mind. Actual communication has nothing to do with it,” wrote Dutton.”


5 posted on 05/19/2008 10:31:27 AM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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To: Enchante
'...right wingers lack libidinal multiplicity and melancholic structure, very likely because they are so sadly saddled by the binary frame and univocal signification.'

Some of us are just luckier than others, I guess.
7 posted on 05/19/2008 11:03:33 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Delphi for me.)
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