The linguistic construction of pedagogical institutions carries with it the engendering of history as such

2009 November 10
by FmH
Brutalist Style

Hours—nay, days—of fun can be had with the University of Chicago’s Make Your Own Academic Sentence widget. You select four theoretical terms from a pull-down menu, it generates a delightfully meaningless string of words. One of mine appears in the title. That’s right: read it and (try not to) weep.

via The New Yorker.

from → Language, linguistics

2 Responses
  1. 2009 November 13
    alcar permalink

    I got

    “The reification of praxis asks to be read as the legitimation of the public sphere.”

    and

    “The eroticization of post-capitalist hegemony gestures toward the discourse of the gendered body.”

    That is so true.

  2. 2009 November 26
    OSHA 30 permalink

    Thanks I have read this article and found some more valuable things

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