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johnslat · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject: Generating controversy: Part 1

So, what do you think of this essay?

Reinventing Modernism: Expressionism in the works of Spelling
Stephen Parry
Department of Gender Politics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1. Expressionism and the posttextual paradigm of narrative
"Class is dead," says Lacan. Thus, cultural feminism implies that the goal of the poet is social comment.

If the posttextual paradigm of narrative holds, the works of Spelling are not postmodern. Therefore, several deappropriations concerning capitalist sublimation exist.

The main theme of Wilson's[1] critique of the posttextual paradigm of narrative is the role of the artist as observer. In a sense, Marx promotes the use of cultural feminism to challenge archaic perceptions of sexual identity. The subject is contextualised into a expressionism that includes sexuality as a reality. Thus, Derrida suggests the use of the posttextual paradigm of narrative to modify class.

2. Contexts of economy
If one examines Lyotardist narrative, one is faced with a choice: either reject expressionism or conclude that art is intrinsically responsible for the status quo, given that the premise of subpatriarchialist dematerialism is invalid. A number of discourses concerning not narrative, as Lacan would have it, but neonarrative may be found. In a sense, the characteristic theme of the works of Spelling is the common ground between sexual identity and reality.

In The Heights, Spelling examines cultural feminism; in Robin's Hoods, however, he deconstructs expressionism. It could be said that Sartre promotes the use of the posttextual paradigm of narrative to attack hierarchy.

Debord uses the term 'cultural feminism' to denote a self-fulfilling totality. In a sense, any number of desituationisms concerning expressionism exist.

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1. Wilson, Z. ed. (1988) Expressionism and cultural feminism. University of California Press

Numpty Honnis · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:

Umm...pass. Complete gobbledy-gook (sp?) to me. But then again I am a bit of a Luddite, so my opinion hardly counts.

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Look at all them thar big ten-dollar words.

fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

Shaman · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Hammertown

Anyone have an advanced class that needs an attitude tune-up? Twisted Evil

Shaman

Aramas · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 12:09 am Post subject:

Actually that seems to be quite a good example of literary w@#king.

FGT · Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 762 Location: Turkey

It's not an essay, it's just name dropping.

How many times do we teach students to restate the topic, give an introductory paragraph, give a personal opinion and back it up with evidence/examples etc? He does none of that.
I wouldn't have been able to get away with something like that as an undergraduate. It's ****ing awful!!!

johnslat · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:36 am Post subject:

Dear FTG,
Check out Part 2
Regards,
John

Wonky Piano · Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 13

Um... well, it's rather late at night, but is this essay supposed to mean something? Do you think the author actually has a first language? Amazing!!!! Thanks for sharing (I think).

yaramaz · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:53 am Post subject:

Sheer drivel. Academisis pomposis to the nth degree. Has this w*nker never heard of clarity and well-laid out arguments?

khmerhit · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:31 am Post subject:

Class is dead." HMMMMMMmmmmm. I agree with that. wholeheartedly.

I t never really came alive in my country, the country to the North of your country.

Despite the numerous attempts of classsy fashionplate women such as my grandmother, it has never taken root in canuckistan. Maybe you could ask Capergirl--she will know more about class than I ever will.

Yours, sadly, from a classless society

khmerhit

P.s. I dont have time for goobbledegooks like that anymore.

PPS--aaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!---the works of Spelling!! Do you know, when i was about thireten or fourteen I remarked to a friend that I thought it shock ing that Farah F should be presenting her nipples to the western world on charlies Angles-so blatantly. His reply, astute as he was, was that "TV reflects reality". (well, yes and no I wshould have replied. Today I woule=d say that Aaron spelliing IS reality--along with Dickhead clark and co). Pretty heady stuff for a fourteen year old. But then my friend was very slver, and went on to be a diplomat in china. I became a mere ESL instructor......
Crying or Very sad

latefordinner · Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 973

FGT has it dead on. A series of unsubstantiated (and dubious) claims is not an argument. I would never have gotten away with that as an undergrad. I remember a prof who had a rubber stamp made, and he used it liberally when marking: "Bullsh!t".

johnslat

Dear latefordinner et al,
I repeat - please check out the following thread:

"Generating controversy: Part 2"

Regards,
John

Kurochan · Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 944 Location: China

I quit reading something whenever I see the word "Lacan." Of course, that's probably why I didn't do so well in grad school.