Saturday, September 26, 2015
Postmodernism
At first when I began this book I truly felt that I was not understanding what it was about or the point of it quite honestly. It completely threw me off when it began to talk about basically making something simple into a more "detailed" I guess descriptive sentence.When it translated the sentence,"the way white guys treat Third World women as sex objects is shallow and disgusting" into "The hemogenic misrepresentation and devalorization of the always-already multi-de/gendered plurivocalities and decentered deconstructed and dialogically problematized ludic simulacra of absent/present postcolonial female subject-positions, by hyper-eroticized and orientalize phallocratic and panoptic dead-white-male subject-position discourse,is a textually reinscribed praxis of pre-disseminated, counter subversive depthlessness, I immediately thought what for? I get the creativity in it but at the same time who wants to read al that. I literally sat with a dictionary and that sentence alone for most likely 20 minutes.
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Good question, Dominique. Truthfully, a lot of postmodern theory sounds this complicated and/or nonsensical. That's why I like this "For Beginners" book (there's a whole series of these about various complicated topics)--it doesn't obscure its meaning through a bunch of gobbly-gook. Some people would say that complicated ideas require complicated syntax, an argument I only partly agree with.
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