David
06-21-2008, 11:08 AM
Wow, this reads like a parody of the Loony Left. But it's really happening!
A conference on the "gender of terror"? "the spectacularization of U.S. queerphobic xenophobia"?
Check out this self-absorbed idiocy for yourselves. The funny thing about the Left in the academy is that it draws ever more inward using theory and jargon -- in the name of understanding and engaging with the "real world," it sinks to lower & lower depths of self-important insularity. It's like a turtle hiding deeper within its shell to get to the outside.
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2008/may/05/conference-addresses-terror-new-ways/
A conference on the "gender of terror"? "the spectacularization of U.S. queerphobic xenophobia"?
Check out this self-absorbed idiocy for yourselves. The funny thing about the Left in the academy is that it draws ever more inward using theory and jargon -- in the name of understanding and engaging with the "real world," it sinks to lower & lower depths of self-important insularity. It's like a turtle hiding deeper within its shell to get to the outside.
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2008/may/05/conference-addresses-terror-new-ways/