I Denounce Your White Geometry
Tyson E Lewis, a professor of art education at the University of North Texas, fires his wisdom into our minds:
Lewis posits that there is a “corporeal geometry of whiteness,” and that what emerges from his analysis “is a description of the aesthetic dimensions of discrimination through the geometric deployment of lines (that maximally extend white bodies into space) and an angle of vision (that constitutes totalized and rigidified racial hierarchies).”
So far as I can tell, and having stared at it for some time, the pile of words above seems intended to repel comprehension. Perhaps we’re supposed to back away from it in bewildered deference.
“Race is lived through an aesthetic geometry of lines and angles that connect and disconnect bodies on a pre-conscious level,” Lewis asserts, adding that “whiteness is a kind of one-dimensional way of being in the world.”
Ah. Bad whitey. That much is clear. Now do brownness.
According to Dr Lewis, “The question of whiteness cannot be avoided if we are to continue to uphold the idea of educational equity and equality.” However, as the word equity, when used anywhere near a campus, roughly translates as “equality of outcome regardless of input,” and is therefore both condescending and unfair, readers may not share our educator’s enthusiasm.
When not signalling his fashionable disdain for all things white and male, and doing violence to the English language in the name of “critical pedagogy,” Dr Lewis writes inexplicably neglected erotic literature.
Dr Lewis writes inexplicably neglected erotic literature.
He writes porn about a grad student being abducted. Is that woke now?
He writes porn about a grad student being abducted. Is that woke now?
It doesn’t sound terribly right-on, no. To say nothing of the vaguely strangle-porn cover. But on the other hand, he does denounce whiteness and maleness, and blathers dutifully about “equity,” so maybe it evens out in whatever woke calculus he’s using.
The monsters name? The Harvey.
To suggest that something which has “corporeal geometry” is nevertheless somehow “one-dimensional” is prima facie bollocks.
University of North Texas hey, by some strange quirk of fate we find that the university of Texas is the new home of an old favourite, a radical cyber feminist with a penchant for appropriating mathematical jargon as well.
Dr. Carolyn Guertin.
I thought those rugged cowboys were supposed to be more down to earth than the Californians.
the University of Texas is the new home of an old favourite, a radical cyber feminist with a penchant for appropriating mathematical jargon as well.
Heh.
[ Rummages deep into the archives. ]
For those who missed Dr Guertin’s contributions to human betterment, here they are.
I find the term “too clever by half argument by linguistically congruent symbolic analogy”. In other words, the words form a hypnotic analogy which make me sound super-smart but I’m too intellectually weak to explore the errors I fall into.
. . . Leda is abducted and fed to a legendary monster living in the abandoned railcar lines under Los Angeles
The railcar lines that are now under Los Angeles appear to be about two to six inches or so under Los Angeles . . .
Perhaps both Leda and the legendary monster are some variety of pixie and thus small enough to fit . . . somewhere . . .
I thought those rugged cowboys were supposed to be more down to earth than the Californians.
I think a lot of Texans will claim Austin is different from the rest of Texas, and that it’s also the place the escapees from California are settling. (And, of course, bringing the politics they escaped from along with them.)
Man, that “the Harvey” monster better not have tentacles – tentacle porn is a P.D.O. of the Japanese, they’ll sue…
Ah. The Michael Eric Dyson school of babbling bullsh#t.
The Dallas area is also gaining California escapees (Toyota brought a few).
“…a description of the aesthetic dimensions of discrimination through the geometric deployment of lines (that maximally extend white bodies into space) and an angle of vision (that constitutes totalized and rigidified racial hierarchies).”
But no pictures to provide the reader examples/evidence of the truth of his assertions. Or is asking for such things bad form?
What Lewis wrote about lines, geometry and dimensions is basically gobbledegook. It has very little coherent meaning. If that passes for academic prose then I’m glad I attended university 40 plus years ago. Medicine and sciences, thank God.
His writing reminds me of my early twenties, a college kid smoking weed with friends, philosophizing on the meaning of life and the world. Trying to apply that calculus and advanced geometry learnin’. It all seemed so clear at the time…… not so much later on.
Your Guertin post takes me back. Have I been hanging out in this joint for over a decade? Geez Louise in a chicken basket, I need some new hobbies.
Your Guertin post takes me back. Have I been hanging out in this joint for over a decade? Geez Louise in a chicken basket, I need some new hobbies.
Try sitting here, matey.
Too many academics these days mimic scholarship without accompanying it with the discipline of thought that actually constitutes scholarship. They remind me of a child imitating his dad in a workshop by pounding away on plastic saws, hammers, and boards, the difference being that the child will one day grow up to use real tools.
Question: why is “Dr.” Lewis using the colonialist patriarchal English language instead of Swahili? Does he live in a mud hut shaped like a female breast or a stick frame house designed by toxic male aggression that destroyed thousands of old growth trees? And since it’s summer in North America, shouldn’t he be up in the mountains gathering berries to feed the women of his tribe as they hunt elk and bear?
So, we’re positing alien geometries, the likes of which White Man might stare at and go mad, eh?
-H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
As always … another case of white-envy ….. black people’s biggest problem is that they can’t seem to get over the fact that they are ….. black people.
You don’t see white people beating black people with geometry or anything else. Most white people have had their hand out to black people for the past 50 years. We feel badly about how people in the distant past abused black people, but that has been over for a long time and none of today’s white people had anything to do with that and neither did any of today’s black people …. we are on a new slate …. INGRATES … We’ve dumbed down education for you, instituted discriminatory hiring practices so Y’all could get jobs that you may or may not be qualified for.
Most white people have left the big cities so that you black folks could have a free hand at showing us white people what a great culture you can develop in those inner city neighborhoods. Need I say more?
Face it … black people (a large number) hate and envy white people. But for what reason in 2018? I think it’s more about that they hate themselves and their wretched lives ….
another case of white-envy
He’s white.
And, of course, from his picture Tyson is the kind of person that white bread looks at and says, ‘Goodness, you’re white!
In the States Tyson is a huge chicken processor; decades of ‘chicken tender’ jokes probably led to the poor clod finally snapping.
He’s not even producing authentic frontier gibberish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=JJS3AYMJ2gM
Too many academics these days mimic scholarship without accompanying it with the discipline of thought that actually constitutes scholarship
It’s a cargo cult. Much like socialism. Hence the affinity. So long as we keep feeding them (and their illusions), why should they believe any different?
Austin is a blue pustule on the otherwise (mostly) beautiful face of the Greatest State in the Union. UNT likewise.
As for non-white geometries, Sporkatus beat me to the relevant reference, so some imagery for your entertainment.
As for non-white geometries, Sporkatus beat me to the relevant reference
It’s one of the few times Lovecraft described things in enough detail that somebody might even take a stab at depicting it. Not a mistake he repeated much – mostly after that it was “pulsating, oozing, twisted… it was deeply horrifying, alright?”
Of course, one of my favorite concise descriptions of an attack on sanity via image is a Simpsons gag.
Dr Lewis writes inexplicably neglected erotic literature.
I am not going to follow that link.
whiteness is a kind of one-dimensional way of being in the world
We allocated all the other dimensions to Black Bodies.
corporeal geometry of whiteness
Half a century of academic bloat does this to the geometry-based racial slur of calling whites square.
I am not going to follow that link.
It occurs to me that the reference to Joss Whedon hasn’t aged terribly well.
“It’s a cargo cult. Much like socialism. Hence the affinity.”
Bingo.
“Austin is a blue pustule on the otherwise (mostly) beautiful face of the Greatest State in the Union.”
Give ’em their due, they do have the Circuit of the Americas. Then again, they had to call it “the Circuit of the Americas” (universally abbreviated to “Cota”, which sounds like a range of beauty products), instead of something cool like “the American Awesomedrome”, or “the Texas Cathedral of Speed”, like any normal person would.
It occurs to me that the reference to Joss Whedon hasn’t aged terribly well.
I have seen comments on his shows saying they suggest a creepy personality but I haven’t followed what he’s done.
The effect was that of a Cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination
Behold! Hemel Hempstead!
(that maximally extend white bodies into space)
NASA?
Too many academics these days mimic scholarship without accompanying it with the discipline of thought that actually constitutes scholarship.
Muhammad pretended to himself that he was a prophet, Marx to himself that he was an intellectual. See: Narcissistic supply.
Also relevant:
https://youtu.be/RVc-sShDeDQ
Behold! Hemel Hempstead!
A bus ride from where I live. The centre of the place could convincingly double for a generic Soviet Bloc town, circa 1970 with very few changes.
Bosch progress report. Season 4 is underway.
When not signalling his fashionable disdain for all things white and male…
I’m reminded of this recent piece by Leah Finnegan where she describes the concept of “Urgent Earnestness” or “Urn”:
“The centre of the place could convincingly double for a generic Soviet Bloc town, circa 1970 with very few changes.”
Looking at some photos, I have to say I’ve seen worse. Behold! Cumbernauld! Or the Workers’ Accomodation Units at St. Vincent Terrace, in the centre of Glasgow.
Anyway, Tyson’s just out of luck; Damon Wayans did it first, and attained the crux of the integral Hobbesian sidereal relation of the parallel dimensity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ROOi5xagxg
Another feminist SJW with thoughts on how to fix men…
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/07/26/who-wants-advice-from-jessica-valenti-on-raising-boys-not-to-be-misogynists/
“Feminist ideas can help men,” she writes, “be it the rejection of expectations that men be strong and stoic or ending the silence around male victims of sexual violence. But boys also need the same kind of culture we created for girls. Thanks to feminism, girls, for example, have everything from “social media campaigns to after-school equality clubs … and real-life spaces where girls can find alternatives to the sexist status quo.”
I’m half tempted to believe the Prof. may be having a larf.
His UNT page washes up here.
Unless, of course, it’s a dig at one dimensional white thinking.
Not being not white, I’m not sure.
But boys also need the same kind of culture we created for girls . . .
. . .which we will then infiltrate or protest vehemently claiming discrimination until it’s destroyed.
Oh for the days of Harry Hutton, Hungbunny, EmeraldBile and others I can no longer remember.
@Frank
Hutton is still around, posting occasionally at Chase Me Ladies. He’s also on Twitter here.
Heh, Harry Hutton. I wonder how his mother is doing. I believe she lived in Somerset, was it? Wonder if he ever learned the truth about her and that Longbottom cad.
Equal parts H.P. Lovecraft and Joss Whedon
I think I just lost 1D10 SAN.
I have seen comments on [Whedon’s] shows saying they suggest a creepy personality
That’s a tricky hypothesis to confirm, given that 1) once you shed the squeeing fanboyism it’s pretty clear the works he’s most famous for depict the female characters rather negatively, and b) the works he’s most famous for were largely written by Marti Noxon, who is something of a basket case herself.
Hutton is still around at his old Blogspot blog “Chase Me Ladies.” His last post there was in May. He’s also on Twitter under his name.
“I am opposed to the indiscriminate lopping off of heads.” (H. Hutton)
Chicken basket, please. Chips, no gravy. Cole slaw made from an illiterate cabbage on the side.
“When not signalling his fashionable disdain for all things white and male, and doing violence to the English language in the name of “critical pedagogy,” Dr Lewis writes inexplicably neglected erotic literature. “
Doesn’t even touch the hem of the great Professor John Frederick Lange himself.
That’s a tricky hypothesis to confirm…
I have only seen Serenity and a few episodes of Firefly. I have not seen his other TV shows and movies, which makes it difficult to evaluate the few comments I’ve seen. And as you note, squeeing fanboyism (and fangirlism) is not only annoying to us adults, it impedes clear communication and understanding.
Of course, once the Great Meteor from Space strikes the earth and we have to rebuild civilization, we will poll people on what they have to offer the massive effort. Me? I’m a civil engineer. That guy, he’s an electrician. That woman, a nurse – a healer. There’s the symphony trumpeter, he can teach the children music. Oh, Tyson Lewis, you teach bullshit theories about whiteness and racial hierarchies? OK, you go sit over there with the gender studies major and interpretative dance instructor. If – IF – there’s any food left, we’ll throw you some crumbs. Otherwise stay out of the way of real people, doing real work.
I call it my GMS test. If what you do would offer no utility to a rebuilding world then I’m not paying any attention to you.
you go sit over there
Not if there are latrines that need tending or bodies that need burning.
If what you do would offer no utility to a rebuilding world
I’m a DevOps engineer. It chastens me to admit that after an honours computer science degree and two decades of honing my craft, post-Meteor I’m probably going to be burning bodies. In the latrine.
From one of David’s links above:
“It’s important to understand that nonsense of this kind is rarely arrived at by accident. It’s highly unlikely that mere clumsiness and mental dullness would produce such determined vacuity. It’s less probable still that so many academics and students would, by chance and dullness alone, produce vacuity with such eerie uniformity. To produce ‘work’ of the generic emptiness shown above … requires practice and dedication, and no small dishonesty. One might forgive genuine stupidity and a lack of mental wherewithal, but when people who aren’t entirely stupid are determined to peddle stupidity as the height of intellectual sophistication, well, that’s harder to excuse. In a saner world, Guertin and her peers would be laughed out of every room they entered. And a gentle pelting with soft fruit wouldn’t go amiss.”
That, sir, is spot on, and the best paragraph I’ve read in quite some time. Where’s that tip jar?
You know, aliens on the other side of the universe are probably teaching their kids the exact same math, right? Lovecraftian cosmic horrors from hypothetical causally disconnected universes that are unrelated to ours in any way probably arrive at the same mathematical principles (though they may disagree on which constructions are relevant to them).