[lit-ideas] Re: rational discourse in academia
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- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:00:21 +0200
On 26-Aug-08, at 1:15 AM, Robert Paul wrote:
From a debate between Ft. Hays College and the University of
Pittsburgh. I think the guy with the hair is the Ft. Hays debate
coach. (He was relieved of his faculty position for conduct
unbecoming.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WEGZa9YBQ8&feature=related
Wow! I've obviously been extra-mural far too long ....
Just in case some list members aren't up on the latest in 'post-
ideological expressionism', here's a hint:
Post-modern = POMO (first 2 letters of each of the components).
Analogously, take the first 2 letters of 'rational' and (since we're
now at the *end* of the story) the *last* 2 letters of 'discourse':
RASE. Now, as postmodernists, we want an ironic comment on
'rationality', (especially as our protagonist is responding to a lot
of 'fornicate elsewhere's, etc.; hardly the pinnacle of 'rational
discourse' itself). So we *reverse* the first 2 letters.
ARSE.
And here in this video we have it, eloquently 'expressed', at the very
limits of (body) language - and in the heat of debate without a
moment's pause for thought! (It's only old fogeys like me who need all
that semantic jockeying.)
Relieved of his position, eh?. No doubt some school more cognizant of
contemporary anti-theory will offer him a Chair for his, er, .....
Chris Bruce
extemporizing a posteriori, in
Kiel, Germany
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