Show my views to said prof —

The avant-garde is always a little ragged and disorienting, but the wake it leaves behind has a way of settling down and then ultimately changing the way we see the world.

The first modernists at the turn of the last century were probably a little hard to stomach, but the movement defines much of our current world. The same holds for the first post-modernists. Derrida is incredibly frustrating — to me — yet signs and signifiers are ingrained in how we today think about branding and advertisting and fashion and political propaganda. So yes, while Deleuze’s “folds” might come across now as self-indulgence, overly proud of the complexity of its internal consistency, who knows how it might be integrated into our daily existence 50 years from now.

We expect the avant-garde to be a little off, as it takes a certain degree of insanity to try to keep destructing and rebuilding thought.

In other words, “it’s all a scam” is a little naive. As always, the world is more complicated…

Or, the prof’s just spouting garbage — and you’d be better off getting as far away as possible.

What text can be so difficult when written in ordinary English that you can’t understand it? None. Lack of clarity and illogical sequences of thought simply mark pseudo-learning.

Is interpretation based on nonsense like “deconstructionism” or “non-Western frameworks” or “death of the author” or “intertexuality”?

Does the prof mention “great minds” like Martin Heidegger or Gilles Deleuze? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze

It’s this kind of mental crap that passes for humanism or is it post-humanism today. It’s an intellectual and moral fraud — does the prof pass the sniff test?

You pay to be educated, not to be defrauded.

The classroom door works, whenever you want to walk out, you can.

Show my views to said prof —

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Anyway, you should do your best …

Thanks for the clarification! I might have a look at your book for further details

Some readings are so complicated, and obtuse, that no matter how slowly you read them or how many questions you ask, you’ll still be lost. This is where you need some help from the outside to help you build a scaffolding on which to place the information you’re encountering, and thus have a prayer of actually answering questions, like those you mention, in a meaningful manner.

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