#one of the funniest things my professor has said this quarter was clowning on people who cite foucault willy nilly
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
while we're airing grievances for fun and profit, it remains fucking wild to me that "read theory challenge" was used as a bizarre gotcha for so much of the campaign by people who almost certainly could not have won that challenge if they'd been called on it.
like yeah, you're suuuuch a superior intellectual decolonialist scholar. tell me more about how your only reading suggestions are a vague "foucault", the communist manifesto, and ursula le guin's wikiquote page.
#there MIGHT have been a fanon reference. but telling that I've never once seen these people mention said#one of the funniest things my professor has said this quarter was clowning on people who cite foucault willy nilly#he was correct#foucault's crime is he is actually just readable enough that people can quote him out of context to sound clever and intellectual#while having no actual understanding of what the fuck they're saying#you try to quote one line of derrida (or god forbid: deleuze) and you have to qualify it with seven other lines just to sound coherent#density in academia is actually a spell cast against spineless nihilists quoting you to bulk up their leftist street cred#me just snidely remembering that one guy in persepolis. if you know the book you know who I'm talking about lmao.#anyway thinking about this cuz I have not succeeded in reading fiction but I am on like. book 6 or 7 of theory for the year#depends on if you count understanding comics as a book of theory. which I do lmao
44 notes
·
View notes