THE BORE

General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on May 08, 2008, 02:46:17 PM

Title: I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 08, 2008, 02:46:17 PM

I think I'm ready now.  Malek can bite me.

Title: Re: I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
Post by: Don Flamenco on May 08, 2008, 02:49:56 PM

have fun with that.  I couldn't get into it at all.  10 minutes with a book by Zizek or Baudrillard and I'm on the verge gouging my eyes out and giving myself a lobotomy.

Title: Re: I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 08, 2008, 02:53:55 PM

Zizek at least writes amusing popular articles.  But I'm not so much interested in the later postmodern stuff, more in the earlier Frankfurt School stuff.

Title: Re: I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
Post by: Don Flamenco on May 08, 2008, 02:55:31 PM

Cool.  I'm not smart enough to wrap my head around a lot of critical theory (rather, I get some of the ideas, but I space out constantly while reading it), which is probably why I dislike it.

Title: Re: I'm going to dive into Critical Theory
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 08, 2008, 03:20:41 PM

I think a lot of it is wrong and/or doesn't really make sense, and result from the writers tying themselves in knots (at least, I know a lot of Marx and Freud's writings fall in that category).  I'm interested in the parts that do make sense (which a lot of Marx's writings also do).

But mostly, I'm interested in retaining my sanity.