"Ordinary language," antiintellectualism, and language as a barrier to understanding (user search)
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
June 01, 2024, 07:11:43 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Discussion
  Religion & Philosophy (Moderator: Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.)
  "Ordinary language," antiintellectualism, and language as a barrier to understanding (search mode)
Pages: [1]
Author Topic: "Ordinary language," antiintellectualism, and language as a barrier to understanding  (Read 1734 times)
FEMA Camp Administrator
Cathcon
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 27,355
United States


« on: August 01, 2022, 08:52:24 AM »

Butler, of course, once infamously argued that her execrable and obscurantist prose style represented a radical act in itself. Certain things are impossible to parody effectively as they're so close to parody in the first place.

Tanaka Mitsu, a Japanese feminist philosopher from the early 70s whom I much admire and have been thinking about a lot lately, said similar things, but the difference is that Tanaka's brand of terrible writing consisted of blazing hot Nietzsche-esque aphorism-takes* and doodles where she confuses GNI and Gini coefficient, which I unironically think is a more respectable way to operate than its Butlerian equivalent on the other side of the #populist Purple heart/#elitist Sad x-axis.

*Our own Battista Minola described Tanaka's analysis of The Abortion Issue as "[Inks]ing insane, but in a good way" when I explained it to him.

Side note:



Well this is probably the most interesting thing I'll have learned about today.
Logged
Pages: [1]  
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.017 seconds with 9 queries.