"Televisual"
1. Create a seemingly plausible fake word--like 'televisual.' 2. Make some off-handed reference to Foucault. 3. Use either "hegemony" or "praxis" or both, if you can. 4. Reference some dead guy most people have heard of--usually Aristotle or Nietzsche.
Now, combine those elements into a sentence:
"In order to overcome the hegemony imposed by the Aristotelian world-view, it's necessary to create a new, more Foucaltvian praxis more in line with our televisual age." You throw shit like that around, you'll be standing in front of undergraduate classes in short order and working your way into grad students' pants in no time. Note: it's not necessary to even know what 'hegemony' or 'praxis' means. I don't know what they mean. I have to keep calling the Professor and reading sentences out loud to her to make sure they actually make sense, and they still let me use them.
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Number of people who've read "The Order of Things" is probably about 63.
Number of people who've read "History of Sexuality" is probably a bit higher.
I have nothing to say, but the password to this post is "ibeggs"
It sounds like a real word, unlike the qyxxvtlp crap I've had to enter all over the internet.
It sounds like a cute name for a mechanical dog.
iBeggs.
So anyway. I had to use the comment form.
ibeggs is the Mac version
You are too funny Aunt. B
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