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Postmodern speak. Oh, it excites such excitement among the unexcitable for whom excitement is neithwer here nor there.

Ah yes, Ms Haraway, your ethos is of the ether out of which comes the eros that is the outwardness of the inner child seeking upwardly while spiraling downwardly and eventually ending posteriorally. Dig?

We could use this if waterboarding is still unacceptable.

It used to be that humanities departments were oriented on leading students to discover enduring, if not eternal, truths. Today they are focused on avoiding that altogether. And so academic language's purpose nowadays is to obfuscate and conceal rather than to clarify and reveal.



In practically any major university today, to study truth you have to go to the colleges of science and engineering, not the humanities.



Only scientists and engineers today embrace what the philosophers and literists of yore did: that truth exists independent of humanity and that it is cognizable by reason, discoverable by rationalist inquiry and individuals and society alike are better for discerning it.

I feel somewhat sexually disoriented after listening to that blatherskite.

Such world-salad speak used to get you straight-jacketed and hauled off to the state hospital. Now it gets you tenure.

Whatever misgivings I had left about having blown off college in my 20s have just been completely eradicated.

Feels pretty good.

Yeah, Cameron. Heard a line recently which really works...

Yesterday, I gave up hope... I'm feeling much better today.

Aw, crap...

Edit: "Such word-salad speak..."

Yeah, it was brilliant other than that.

Is that a "HER?"

I thought that was our old friend Ward Churchill.

My God! What mindless blather.

As someone who is starting to "shop" universities for the first of my five children, I am enlightened. I think it might be a great marketing strategy for universities to send DVD samplings of lectures from various tenured profs. It would go a long way in helping parents and students make up their minds. Seriously, can't my child volunteer at a psychiatric ward to hear this kind of endless nonsensical chatter?

I'd leave a comment if I could stop laughing....

She would be a fine professor....if the course happened to be "Arrogant Moonbat Libtard Cunt 101."

Seriously, I've seen 3rd stage syphillitics make more sense than her.

If I were a parent of a college student, I'd ask...

No, I take that back... I'd SUE the college to get my money back!

If this is what my kids have to look foward to when they go to college, I'd rather tell them, "You get a job or go to the Armed Forces first - then, think about college."

When you pay tuition for your education from your own pocket, you expect and demand a high quality - not P.C. regurgitation.

Reminds me of the Sokal Hoax.

What a mind-numbing load of nonsense. This woman makes *PoMo Princess* Judith Butler sound like Ernest Hemingway.

"transgenic elements such as plutonium"

Just what genes do you insert into a nucleus to turn it into plutonium???

And that was the only thing she said that made even that much sense. The rest was so incoherent and deranged that it was, to quote physicist Wolfgang Pauli, not even wrong.

The fact that such tenured loons are common on college campuses is sufficient proof that academia is hopelessly corrupt and needs and an Augean Stables style cleaning.

Lily Ledbetter: Here is a college guide which should help you. It's been favorably reviewed by National Review and other conservative magazines and bloggers:

"Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools" by John Zmirak

That was terrific!
I must have missed that episode of 'Actors Studio' where Richard Dreyfuss did his interpretation of the Dennis Hopper character in 'Apocalypse Now'...in drag!!!

pst314, thanks for that!

Bark, bark, bark!

"Is that a "HER?"
I thought that was our old friend Ward Churchill."

No BS, I thought the same thing when I first looked at the video window.

I have two more to send to these wackos. The first two I was able to bring back to this galaxy.

Thank God I studied engineering. Mr Sensing (above) says it well.

Well, I suppose the commenters above might have valid points but as for myself I will reserve judgment on her until I can get an English translation of what she said.

What language is she speaking? Basque? Flemish? Gaelic?

Translation: "I have no idea what the F I am talking about, but it sure sounds good to my fellow tenured BS'ers."

B.S. -- Bullsh*t
M.S. -- More of the same
Ph.D -- Piled higher and Deeper

This is one F***ed up person. One more elite educator who feels that they can impress us with thier bullshit.

One of the reasons as to where we are today.

dhmosquito - And to think that I majored in philosophy. No fooling, I did. But that was long enough ago to be "old school."

What language is she speaking? Basque? Flemish? Gaelic?

Moonbonics.

Moonbonics

I hear a spot just opened up for that at The Justice Department.

As a former college professor myself, I can't tell you how widespread this nonsense is. Fortunately most young people these days sleep or ipod their way through classes, so they're spared a high percentage of the drivel.

For people looking for a college at which their children can actually get an education, check out St. John's College in Annapolis and Santa Fe.

If this is the top of the academic hierarchy, imagine what the bottom looks like!

Frankly, these postmodernists have made themselves into caricatures. One can only regret that one cannot make them look more ridiculous than they are.

A sad and pathetic state of affairs.

Back in the old days I knew Michel Foucault. Wherever he is today, I am sure that he is laughing at this.

As a person cursed and blessed with a sacramental consciousness, and the indelible mark of having grown up as an Irish Catholic in the United States -- a kind of indelible understanding that the sign is the thing in itself, the implosion of sign and substance that is part of being cursed and blessed with a sacramental consciousness, the literalness of metaphor, the materality of trope, the tropic quality of materality--the implosion of semioticity and materiality always simply seemed the case about the world, as opposed to a particularly fancy theoretical insight, or a mistake; it simply seemed the air we breathed, the irreducible semioticity of materiality, and vice versa.

To paraphrase...

Father O'Malley was always talking about "The Word made flesh."

where do i download the "jabberwockey" app?

You can tell she has a VERY high opinion of herself...

I believe I am better qualified to comment on this situation than any of you, try as you might. The problem with Gerald Vanderlism and his docile minion followers of the semplisme model of prepostmodern dedeconstructualized textification is this, and why you people can't see this, I will never understand:
You all lack the gravitas of penubrian analysis to internalize the teachings of so great a womyn as Donna Haraway, who, with the generous funding of more humane and non-racist cultures of toleration, has imparted her visionary wisdom and that of her benefactors so well that you can all be dismissed as just so many empty-headed blow up dolls in a post-coital paradigm. Really, I feel sorry for you all, but clearly, there isn't anyone on these fora who can actually conceptualize critically the absurdist views that I hold so dearly.