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at least i am awake enough to realize /that/ was not representative

http://www.themarysue.com/judith-butler-explained-with-cats/

do you feel like most yeshiva students don't belong there mordy?

tbh the most widely known and talked-about intellectual at my undergrad institution was samuel huntington

fukuyama too probably. nobody talked about butler and i hung around the most far-left intersectional activists and professors on campus

derrida more popular than butler too among the lefty philosophers i knew

people in the architecture department knew who gilles deleuze was but half the philosophy department had no idea

nobody talked about butler and i hung around the most far-left intersectional activists and professors on campus

― marcos, Tuesday, February 14, 2017 2:11 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's not accurate actually. i knew one professor who taught feminist philosophy and critical race theory and she mentioned but didnt even assign butler's readings

judith butler is p big with anti-oppressive lesbian social worker types that i know, although many of them did not go to university.

i never heard her discussed in university - i studied mainly 18th century history so the performativity of gender perhaps wasn't germane (gladstone so cis)

do you feel like most yeshiva students don't belong there mordy?

my high school class had 14 students and went down to 9 students as some of the students couldn't hack it. of those 9? i think probably at least 8 of them should've been there. you need at least some bodies to produce the one or two major rabbis you want from every graduating class. obv i was a casualty but i like to think i did my small part to keep brisker talmudic traditions alive for another generation.

18-22 year olds should work and enjoy their lives

also i could be wrong that college is wasted on 18-22 year olds. maybe they all just do it twice?

I wish I'd picked up a double major or decided to stretch out another year by tacking a minor or two on, but again, money

I mean let me put it this way, I went to an ivy league college at the height of high theory and even I don't REALLY know who she is, i know she wrote a book about cyborgs but I could not tell you one thing about what that book says.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), 14. februar 2017 20:04 (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think you're thinking of Donna Haraway, who wrote the Cyborg Manifesto, the key book for understanding Jannelle Monae. Judith Butler wrote Gender Trouble, and her key insight relates to performativity, and her book is the key book for understanding Lady Gaga. But both of them pale in significance to Karen Barad, who wrote Meeting the Universe Halfway, which combines gender studies with quantum mechanics, and is the key book for understanding post-cartesian ontology.

damn i was hoping you'd have a third pop star for Barad

Camille Paglia is more widely read than any of these

the key book for understanding Jannelle Monae

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imago said

social clubs in their locales

I instantly thought this:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_production/images/articles/17532/V_2_Smiths_-quietus_1427661580_crop_550x830.jpg

And then Tom D said

They should all be forming bands

And I loled

Camille Paglia is more widely read than any of these

this can't possibly be true can it

i'm not going to argue this as fiercely as deej in the t-shirt thread, but i would be surprised if it wasn't true

well in my world of pretentious young ppl

damn i was hoping you'd have a third pop star for Barad

― Mordy, 14. februar 2017 20:27 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me too! I thought of just bullshitting and saying 'Grimes', but somehow someone would probably point out that that makes no sense.

Baradian semiotics. Severely underdeveloped.

almost every non-math or -science classes i took in college mentioned samuel huntington in some way

i didn't hear huntington's name (or bernard lewis') once until after i graduated! and i went to a relatively conservative undergrad institution.

i heard of huntington only after 9/11. i did read fukuyama as an undergrad (on my own initiative) and it was sort of a handy introduction to hegel, iirc.

Marcos when did you work at Hampshire? That was where I attended undergrad (07-11). Heard at least one fellow student of mine use the nickname "Judy Buts"

I have never heard of Samuel Huntington.

i think, outside of prestigious ivys and their ilk, you can pretty much graduate most colleges without reading any book other than a textbook.

― ryan, Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:01 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark

this isn't true but even if it were, there is a reason why students aren't required to buy a bunch of books outside of their textbooks
they are expensive

you guys are revealing your educational privilege if you don't think there are plenty of non-traditional students who benefit substantially from college. my workplace was recently identified as #1 in the state in helping to raise the socioeconomic status of our students. #1!!

i'm sure in some circumstances some colleges and some college degrees can raise a student's socioeconomic status. i think for many other colleges and many other students they are a trap to stick students with thousands of dollars in debt and, depending on their major, for an education that offers no value in the marketplace.

i understand that and yes, that is true SOME of the time
but to make sweeping generalizations is to discredit the very useful hard work SOME people are doing to improve their lives and their families' lives. it's making students like mine even more invisible than they already are. and i rightfully object to that.

Marcos when did you work at Hampshire? That was where I attended undergrad (07-11). Heard at least one fellow student of mine use the nickname "Judy Buts"

― softie (silby), Tuesday, February 14, 2017 3:00 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i was there from 08-09!!

xp let's all endeavor to make un-invisible both those students benefiting from college educations and those trapped by them!

ok let's :)

i'm admittedly a little bitter bc i have an obscene amount of student debt even still. but the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight - i will be absolutely done by 2021 assuming i don't pay them off sooner.

I think the extent to which skills that were not (and to some extent, still are not) taught in primary education are now necessary not just for employment but for some level of engagement in social society is underrated.

For every debate we have about whether an academic writer was well-known by humanities majors, there's at least one college student out there who would benefit from a basic reading comprehension course. Some of this need is coming from the failure of public schools to keep up with shifting curriculum and testing requirements while under heavy fire. But a lot of it is the realization that individuals need a lot more career and skill mobility than in previous times.

we're entering an era of highly resistant diseases and weakening antibiotics with no new ones in the development pipeline - a return to a more sexually conservative culture might not be a bad thing, and might be an inevitability. i just hope it happens in a way that's not perverse, ignorant and misogynistic (i'm not optimistic there)

why do we need that when we have condoms?

sorry i know this is a safe space for uncool conservative opinions

if those worked we wouldn't be where we are

it's gonna be all those senile boomers in retirement communities incubating antibiotic resistant syphilis

Small world, I went to Amherst around the same time.

I have more uncool conservative beliefs than cool liberal ones

they're uncool with self-identifying conservatives too though

The Pioneer Valley is the secret center of the universe

I'm quite sceptical of drawing/painting tablets. Some people can do drawings that look like they were done on paper but a lot of the colour and painted style images just look wrong and ugly to me. But I'd hope you can paint like an old master on them.

I think you're thinking of Donna Haraway, who wrote the Cyborg Manifesto,

oops yes I totally am

plus, I never read butler or haraway when i was in college (still haven't) but i did read lol camille paglia in college, shame on me

this isn't true but even if it were, there is a reason why students aren't required to buy a bunch of books outside of their textbooks
they are expensive

not to be all uncool radical about this but the textbook racket has got to go. also a half dozen paperback books is about the same price as a massive and needlessly expensive textbook.

back to uncool conservative: higher education in particular needs to involve in-depth at-length seminar-style close reading of gobs of text and not glossy bullet points to be regurgitated on multiple choice tests.

btw i like butler fine but really recommend haraway. she's a trip. there's a new book where my former dissertation advisor interviews her that's quite good.

Here's an uncool conservative belief: don't bother w butler; outside one clever application of jl austin she hasn't got much going for her

But, like, 99% of theorists are one-trick ponies, and Butler's trick was REALLY good.

I have no idea what's in chapter one of Discipline and Punish, for instance, but I had to read chapter two over and over and over...