whipping girl

... and biological components. I have to admit that a big part of the reason I wanted to understand trans-ness better is that, as I thought about feminism more, I moved further and further towards a gender deconstructionist view, that it's all social and can be torn down. But that philosophy erases trans-ness entirely, so it can't be right. This book came at many of the gender issues I've been ...

Taking Out tThe (Euro)Trash

... than Heidegger , without whom (he said) he would never have said a single world. So what is Deconstruction, and why is it important in the field of Eurotrash? J. Hillis Miller, a deconstructionist himself, put it best: “Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself. Its apparently-solid ground is no rock, but thin air.”...

Been watching True Blood (season 2) here of late. I could pretend that it's because I'm doing some kind of deconstructionist literary theory thing but that would be lying . The thing is, I like vampires, even sparkley ones with bizarre stalker-type relationships. I'm a huge fan of the vampire thing, the allegorical biting stuff. I like the religious symbolism, the angst, and the striking of ...

Scary professor!

...of dear Sheistermeisters, There is a professor in the polsci department of my university who has repeatedly shown a video in class of her naked, shoving cupcakes up her cooch under the guise of calling it feminist deconstructionist theory. I think it's just weird porn of a professor who is exploiting her students, and she's only a step and a half from a scary pedo. How do I ruin her for ultimate ...

Big thinkin'~

... of the financial sector. "Where we are now is intolerable," Wolf wrote in September. "Today's concentrations of state-insured private wealth and power must surely go." Yet Wolf is no doomsday deconstructionist. Without a clear ideological bent (though he is a committed free-trader), his bias is for policies that do the job -- note the emphasis in his book titles Fixing Global Finance and Why ...

A moment of musical geekery

... too weird and unmelodic to be anything earlier than the late 19th C., but not weird, atonal, and unrhythmical enough to be well into the early 20th C. (e.g. the really deconstructionist nineteen-teens type stuff), has those long, sweeping runs characteristic of Romantic composition, and is too formalist to be a really modern composer, since modern classical composers tend to either do formalism ...

brain food

...my nose, tip back my throat and pretend it's tequila. Two hours later, my reading is still untouched, but my paper looks like it will be written by tomorrow. My hope is that it will be finished by 3:30 tomorrow, and won't be so convoluted she will make me rewrite because it's not Deconstructionist enough. That is it. Maybe I need to invent a Magically Optimistic Wonder Meal next.

Today

... it into this strong structure of what he thought it was, based on logic. I tried to explain myself as ... yes, being a logical person, but also understanding the complexities in life and being a deconstructionist (as a loose label). He took this to mean that I was being a hypocrite, and misunderstanding what he was saying, and thus trying to put HIM into a structure by criticizing him on what he ...

Battered Bronze

... a suggestion in Superman's mind that perhaps all that saving everyone he was doing wasn't helpful to humanity in the long run, stunting our "evolutionary growth" or somesuch). The point is that there was very little depth to Silver Age stories, whereas Bronze Age tales at least strove for depth. And, in so doing, they paved the way for the "grim & gritty" deconstructionist DKR and Watchmen .

Fic: Prick Up Your... Er

...... Er Author: twtd Pairing: Anthony Bourdain/Toby Young Rating: PG-13 (for language) Summary: Tony and Toby don't get along Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction and thus completely made up. That was why he was stuck at a table with Padma, a British prick, and molecular-gastronomy-deconstructionist nitwit who didn't know the difference between food and an 8th grade science project.