> I note with feigned surprise the conflation of "academic" with
> "intellectual" along with the implication that "intellectual"
> is the same as "intelligent" or "mentally competent." Can't
> think until graded and stamped by bourgeois institutions, eh?
Heh, heh, I'm glad that Gordon pointed out that conflation. There are plenty of intellectuals out here that aren't academia.
> I have to say, though, they I haven't found the material in
> this mailing list to be particularly obscure. In any case,
> I had my fill of anti-intellectualism in the '60s. (We
> should call it "Artificial Stupidity" and have machines do
> it for us.) Pomospeak is fun: you get to say things like
> "reinscribe", "situate", and "metatheory" about the most
> mundane problems. It's like eating one of those weird-
> upscale brands of ice cream, but cheaper, and it's probably
> not as bad for your teeth.
I've had some problems reading some of the posts on this list, especially the ones that relate to some current theory in pomospeak.
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