It's Called a Stereotype for a Reason

[mellow_georgia]

Given that I should have graduated maybe two years ago, but haven’t due to various reasons, I can say that I am an expert at sitting in class and noticing the same patterns which re-appear every semester regarding my fellow classmates’ usual discourses

Comments

[otioseandtrite]

What about the guy who talks about Wittgenstein and Kant and Derrida at parties to not pick up vapid scene girls?

And good God do I hate stoners.

huh haa

[anonymous]

that blog post was awesome. you must have been on grass when you wrote that. huh haa.

[mellow_georgia]

Also Foucault stands in the frontier between philosophy and literature. Read him as you wish, ha.

[many_others_yet]

Last year I considered taking a course in the philosophy dept. at Master's level. I can't remember what exactly, but it was something Derrida related. (Basically, we're encouraged to put the resource strain on any department but our own.) But I ultimately bottled out, believing I would look too much like stereotype 7.

This year I can bottle out on the grounds that I can find nothing that isn't analytic philosophy on offer. They've either had a systematic purge, or I've wandered onto some ancient ghost website.

Anyway, a nice run of posts you're on, there.

[mellow_georgia]

I have problems with analytic philosophy too. The way they can go look at a text and go page by page reducing every paragraph to a one sentence argument such as "if A then B , but if B equals not A then not B equals A" etc. really intimidates me. Also, whenever I take literature classes, I am also the jerk that keeps trying to do philosophy over Hemingway. Then again, I guess it has a proper name now " Literary Criticism."

Also, I finished Eagleton's " After Theory" and honestly, the only thing I seem to get is that he goes against post-modernism claiming that we need some sort of grand narrative, or some sort of virtue ethics to ground us back. It's like we lost the world with post-modernism.

Then again, there is nothing wrong with losing the world. Also, if you are into literary criticism, Derrida's " On Gramatology" should be a good read, except that you might enjoy Proust more right now. Do not let those pages melt away in dreams. Even still, it is good to dream about Proust.

Take Care

[perseguidor]

Entré de casualidad a livejournal después de algo así como un año y me encontré con tu post, cuya lectura disfruté.

Antes trataba casi exclusivamente con los tipos de filosofía/letras que detallás, ahora debido a un cambio de carrera trato casi exclusivamente con gente de computer science. Y es así.

Saludos desde Buenos Aires.