Academics get paid big bucks to produce mountains of such unreadable "research." Students borrow big bucks to study such "research." And the taxpayer picks up the bill.
Posted on 04/22/2024 11:48:40 AM PDT by Angelino97
Taking up a discourse of idealised whiteness in conjunction with star theory, Sean Redmond frames white female stardom as a privileged yet restrictive state.
Locating Johansson within such a construction of stardom, Redmond looks to how her idealised white star image as resolved through her roles in Her, Under the Skin and Ghost in the Shell is simultaneously recognisable and alienating within these texts. As idealised white star, Johansson traverses the cinematic universe, moving with privileged access into roles, spaces and intimacies laid open for her. Yet as an unobtainable and non-reproductive idol, Johansson is also alienating, an embodiment of the loneliness, fragmentation and isolation that plagues contemporary (white) social existence...
In science fiction film one can see how the whitely markers of Heaven and Angel are transposed to the impressive vastness of utopian Space, and the figure of the Alien Messiah who descends to earth and is given symbolic transformative powers, such as the ability to heal, resurrect and, if wronged, seek vengeance. The Alien Messiah confuses and upsets binary reproductive structures, and is implicated in the non-reproductive framework of idealised whiteness since they are beyond reproduction and see it as a lesser form of evolution.
In Arrival, the Heptapods communicate in circular cryptograms which render time and space anti-chrononormative: they are beyond reproduction but allow Louise Banks, the whitely linguist in the film, to give birth again to the daughter that has already died...
Elizabeth Ellsworth calls this essential paradox the “double binds of whiteness,” whereby rationalised purity necessarily brings privileged white people closer to their own negation since they lack empathy and deny the sex drive that in the end would result in the eradication of the species.
In a great many science fiction films, the figure of the hyper-white scientist is presented as dangerous...
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Academics get paid big bucks to produce mountains of such unreadable "research." Students borrow big bucks to study such "research." And the taxpayer picks up the bill.
First World Problems
Why is Katy Perry less popular than Taylor Swift?
Scarlett Johansson is cute, she has a nice smile, an interesting voice, she isn’t bad as an actress and I’m also mildly jealous of her naturally beautiful boobs.
All of that got her a lot further in her career than did the mere fact her being Caucasian.
“Why is Katy Perry less popular than Taylor Swift?”
Because Katy Perry is a skank.
These people will really meltdown when they see how popular Caitlyn Clark is in the WNBA.
The language used by academics is awful stuff.
I think it all derives from Hegel who influenced Marx. Everyone on the Left always wants to discuss the reification of the hegemonic patriarchal and semiotically-derived holistic confluence of socially dependent and independent manifestations of anthropological deconstructions.
They have no idea what they’re trying to say.
“Because Katy Perry is a skank.”
Thanks, I think...
They seem more similar than different to me, but I don’t really pay either much attention. I’ll have to step up my game.
The only term I ever learned from this stuff that seemed somewhat useful was ‘reify’. But I’m still waiting for a chance to use it...
Gee I wonder why Rosie O’Donnell isn’t as popular?
They have no idea what they’re trying to say.
I was thinking the same thing a couple of minutes ago. They string together a lot of long, smart sounding words and have no idea what they mean.
I glanced at other papers this author wrote and yikes! He’s not exactly a brainiac. Lots of nonsensical jargon, trendy “woke” words, delusional thinking... and apparently he is at Deakin U in Australia which describes itself as a “progressive, innovative and open-minded university.”
Normal, sane people don't talk like that.
Not bad for a Jewish girl...
Don’t give the fans too much credit. Like, oh my gosh, Katy Perry is so 2008.
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>> Because Katy Perry is a skank.
And Taylor Swift is a skank with brighter lipstick. ;-)
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