FWD (SK)(Got Caliche?) Re: Humanities scholars spend lots of time reading, so why can't they write ?

From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 15:38:54 MDT

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    FWD (SK)(Got Caliche?) Re: Humanities scholars spend lots of time reading,
    so why can't they write ?

    Friday, July 18, 2003, 2:08:19 AM, Terry wrote:

    TWC>
    http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id=7BD4CBE6-FB03-424A-BD8C-9133CE9500CC

    TWC> The first rule of postmodernism: Make simple ideas complicated, and complicated
    ideas
    TWC> incomprehensible. When moviemakers changed James Bond's brand of vodka, Aaron
    Jaffe
    TWC> of the University of Louisville wrote that this "carries a metaphorical chain of
    TWC> deterritorialized signifiers, repackaged up and down a paradigmatic axis of
    associations."
    TWC> We can classify much of this prose as pomo-babble.

    < http://www.dourish.com/goodies/decon.html >

     Here are some ideas for texts you might try to deconstruct, once you
     are ready to attempt it yourself, graded by approximate level of
     difficulty:

    Beginner:
    Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea
    Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers
    this article
    James Cameron's The Terminator
    issue #1 of Wired
    anything by Marx

    Intermediate:
    Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
    the Book of Genesis
    Francois Truffaut's Day For Night
    the United States Constitution
    Elvis Presley singing Jailhouse Rock
    anything by Foucault

    Advanced:
    Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
    the Great Pyramid of Giza
    Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
    the Macintosh user interface
    Tony Bennett singing I Left My Heart In San Francisco
    anything by Derrida

    Tour de Force:
    James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
    the San Jose, California telephone directory
    IRS Form 1040
    the Intel i486DX Programmer's Reference Manual
    the Mississippi River
    anything by Baudrillard 

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James H.G. Redekop
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