[lbo-talk] RE: Uses of cool...

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Fri Dec 5 13:56:07 PST 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "joanna bujes" <jbujes at covad.net>


> Academicians can be quite honest about this. The year before I went on
the job market, NOBODY from U. C. Berkeley got a job. The Profs heading the placement committee were Stephen Greenblatt and another pomo guy whose name I forget. When asked by the distressed grad students how a top-notch English department could fail to place any students, the profs pulled on their silk ties, cleared their throats, and said that the problem was that the candidates had not bee "sexy enough." (They meant theory sexy, not sexually sexy.) Nobody objected to this; nobody said a word.

Joanna

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Theory is the Viagra of the academic class. Blame Freud.

At least it's more interesting a metaphor than *being dead serious*.

Ian



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