What Did The Lichen Say To You?
The class, since you ask, is Ecofeminist Poetry & Poetics. Taught by a Professor of English, Brian Teare, who will, we’re assured, situate relationships and encourage re-feeling.
Professor Teare will also reveal, in ways somewhat mysterious, how “chattel slavery, imperialism, industrialisation, settler colonialism, and militarisation” can be understood – and righteously tutted about – by listening to “birds, goats, willow oaks, and lichen.”
Those suitably intrigued will “listen across species.” Having forked over the suitable fee, of course.
Because an intersection had to be mentioned at some point, obviously. One must be seen wearing that rhetorical jewellery.
Readers are welcome to ponder whether the anticipated insights on “slavery, imperialism, industrialisation, settler colonialism, and militarisation” – arrived at via ecofeminist poetry and listening to lichen, a lifeform with no sound-producing anatomy – will be in any way surprising.
Professor Teare, pictured here, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
See also, situated bodies and self-other paradigms.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
And yet I can guarantee you that when it’s time for the class to discuss the topic, there will be ample wordage to fill the allotted time. And all of it, without exception, will be more pretentious word salad, spouted by those students who have a certain gift of gab, that permits them to string together words like a post-modern essay generator.
I was never able to do that — say nothing with lots of words, being sure to include the latest buzzwords and circumlocutions. I can’t even use buzzwords in a workplace setting.
I’m not 100% sure that beard was grown by natural testosterone, if you catch my meaning.
Ok, this is fun … some inspired casting.
Here’s the chappie with the megaphone who welcomed the men who leapfrogged him with the IEDs.
Is he clueless about the danger he was in, or is he incapable of fear?
Because if the latter, that’s one of the symptoms of psychopathy.
I don’t think we can afford to attribute their behavior to ignorance, naivete, arrogance, or insanity. Some of these folks at the top know exactly what’s going on, and they’re completely down with it.
Because the issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.
As for the would-be bombers, they were both born in the USA to parents from Afghanistan and Turkey. They appear to be fairly wealthy families, too.
Indeed. I would totally pay to see that.
It does seem to be a pretext to signal opinions of a predetermined and socially statusful kind. I very much doubt that that the perspectives offered on “slavery, imperialism, industrialisation, settler colonialism, and militarisation” will be in any way surprising or off-message.
Because that wouldn’t do.
It’s reasonable to ask how “refugees” become so wealthy so quickly.
You often see courses like this run from a woman’s house or, if the housewife is bored enough, some cheap commercial rental that’s used for pilates classes most of the time. The fact that this one is attached to a university shows how much they’ve degraded. I can’t see how the university system can be fixed from within.
Note also the earrings, the multiple eyeglass styles.
My daughter, who is more beautiful and more wonderful than any other in the entire world, obviously, is about to go to college to study something to do with math. she is bright, and therefore an obvious target for people like these. our first line of defense is to try to find a STEM university not hell-bent on transforming her into a screaming lunatic. there are a few schools like this, but not many. I would like an academically rigorous school that would uphold and promote her Christian faith and love of western civilization, I would settle on one that would just leave her the hell alone to study. I just want to keep critical theory peddlers away from her in her formative years
Jordan Peterson has cautioned that people in STEM fields seem to be particularly vulnerable to leftist indoctrination. I’m not sure if he has suggested any specific methods of inoculation, although his talks and David’s posts would be a good start.
as a parent, I no longer view this as merely obnoxious. it’s scary and predatory behavior, designed to shame and destroy a young person’s identity, replacing it with this critical consciousness like some sort of mind-controlling fungus
It may be it was natural testosterone . . . just not his.
This fellow’s got the right idea. He’s backed up not just by Frank Zappa, but by The Move:
https://youtu.be/_QJHdovVj-M?si=Y0o7KMUERzJVouWo