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Fun with jargon
Illinois Press Book Blog —
Make your own academic sentence. Look what I came up with in just a few clicks:
The reification of post-capitalist hegemony may be parsed as the historicization of the gendered body.
The normative, the gendered body, etc. etc.
The Millions —
... “The fiction of normative value(s) invests itself in the legitimation of the public sphere.” Finally, you don’t have to make up your own bullshit, with this nifty academic writing generator! ...
ampere’s and
3:AM Magazine —
... Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web:
James Cauty’s rebranding of the BNP (via Blackheath Books)
& Make your own academic sentence (or, the PoMo-babble generator, as Maud Newton calls it)
& We are all Tao Lin
& The Short Review interview Eliis Sharp
& Comics & politics with Clt.Alt.Shift (Bryan Talbot, Dave McKean)
& The Comica Festival ...
The linguistic construction of pedagogical institutions carries with it the engendering of history as such
The Book Bench —
... Hours—nay, days—of fun can be had with the University of Chicago's Make Your Own Academic Sentence widget. You select four theoretical terms from a pull-down menu, it generates a delightfully meaningless string of words. One of mine appears in the title. That's right: read it and (try not to) weep. ...
