i guess foucault would've been too easy
since i accept and actually pursue the ideal of an objective truth, i've long pegged myself as a john dewey-style pragmatist. no more! according to quizzilla's what 20th century theorist are you?, i'm jacques derrida, lord king of deconstruction.thanks a lot, quizzilla, for penetrating beneath appearances and revealing the true self. now i'll have to plow through of grammatology.
here are my results, who'd you get?
You are Jacques Derrida!
You founded Deconstructionism in 1966, and have been a thorn in people's sides ever since. You argue that texts cannot be reduced to a single meaning, among other things. You are dense, impenetrable, and not dead.
minor correction: turns out i'm no longer not dead.
posted by christopher uggen @ 5:48 PM
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"You are an undergraduate!" -- that's what i got on the quiz. well, i am an undergradute, so they got that one right.
chris, you should definitely get into poststructuralism, and do some progressive sociological postcriminology. :-)
Well, I'm Franz Fanon. I'm excited to be non-white, non-Western and a founder of postcolonial thought, but not super crazy about dying of leukemia in 1961.
i would have been classified as an undergrad if i'd been completely honest about my recent reading. i'd prefer to be fanon -- dead or alive.
Jacques Lacan, presumably because Paul Feyerabend is not one of the choices.
I am Foucault and oddly enough I was just reading him earlier tonight.
Amazing! I am undergraduate! And oddly enough I haven't been an undergraduate for 20 years. However, in the course of teaching, I meet undergraduates on a daily basis. I guess I wish I still was one. Well, I hope that's it. If I still am, better not tell no one.
Speaking of which, I once attended a class taught by Derrida in Paris, and did I ever feel the under-graduate [to speak of the under-graduate one assumes, and one invokes, its opposite: the on-top-of-graduate]. Anyway, he spoke of the 'uncanny' (das Unheimliche) in the work of Heidegger --uncannily, I recall this though I did not further understand the lecture [or, since I now remember and do hereby recollect --though I do not know to whom this is this addressed and who might read it now and later-- said lecture, did I understand it after all? -- or on-top-of-stand it perhaps? And if not now, perhaps later? Perhaps?].
So instead, I drew a drawing --most of my drawings are drawn-- of him. I believe the friend I was with at the time --and who was registered for the course [his presence therefore was legal, as opposed to mine]-- may still have it. I know I don't have it [unless he gave it to me, without my knowledge, and I did not know, and it was placed in my luggage, and perhaps that I still have and has been kept at home, so perhaps I still have it].
"Jacques Lacan! Arguably the most important psychoanalyst since Freud, you never wrote anything down, and the only works of yours are transcriptions of your lectures. You are notoriously difficult to understand, but at least you didn't talk about the penis as much as other psychoanalysts. You died in 1981."
So many things suck about me being this guy:
1) I never lecture.
2) I'm quite easy to understand, because I avoid things like complexity, nuance, and intelligent thought. My theoretical orientation is that 99% of problems come form The Man, and the other 1% from a The Man-immitating woman.
3) I don't believe in reincarnation (dieing in France in 1981, being re-born in Iowa in 1982), as it is against my religion. Seriously. An entire church split off from us (ironically calling themselves the "Old Catholic Church" although we out-old them by about 1700 years) pretty much on the sole basis of the fact that we say reincarnation is impossible.
4) I talk about penises all the time.
Incidentally, I'm very jealous of the people who get to be Franz Fanon, though I really would have preffered being someone not so dead.
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