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felis_ultharus"And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads the name of Robert Lecker."
HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
From Robert Lecker's Making it Real, a book about Canadian "canon":
"It follows that in the abscence of...canonical authority, no authentic questioning, and no new forms of antifoundational inquiry, can occur. It is against the canon and in the light of the canon that we learn to read and then to interpret.
...
If we do not have a canon, we cannot say what it does not represent. We cannot say how it neglects to describe the ways in which it is not Canadian. We need to construct a Canadian canon that is deliberately flawed and failed."
Yup, he's saying what he seems to be saying. To Robert Lecker, postmodern McGill professor, Canada's failure is that it doesn't have an official list of elitist, teacher-approved books by dead white males.
If it doesn't get a teacher-approved list of books by dead white males, how on earth are postmodernists like Leckner supposed to rip apart that list, like postmodernists in other countries do?
"I want to be a revolutionary! First, we need a country. Then we need a dictator for that country, but not a really strong one because we don't want him to beat us. Then, revolution!"
EDIT: Bizarre brain-fart -- I mispelled Robert Lecker's name throughout. I changed it, but maybe I should change it back. After all, he's a post-structuralist, and a name is a fixed arbitrary sign :p
HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
From Robert Lecker's Making it Real, a book about Canadian "canon":
"It follows that in the abscence of...canonical authority, no authentic questioning, and no new forms of antifoundational inquiry, can occur. It is against the canon and in the light of the canon that we learn to read and then to interpret.
...
If we do not have a canon, we cannot say what it does not represent. We cannot say how it neglects to describe the ways in which it is not Canadian. We need to construct a Canadian canon that is deliberately flawed and failed."
Yup, he's saying what he seems to be saying. To Robert Lecker, postmodern McGill professor, Canada's failure is that it doesn't have an official list of elitist, teacher-approved books by dead white males.
If it doesn't get a teacher-approved list of books by dead white males, how on earth are postmodernists like Leckner supposed to rip apart that list, like postmodernists in other countries do?
"I want to be a revolutionary! First, we need a country. Then we need a dictator for that country, but not a really strong one because we don't want him to beat us. Then, revolution!"
EDIT: Bizarre brain-fart -- I mispelled Robert Lecker's name throughout. I changed it, but maybe I should change it back. After all, he's a post-structuralist, and a name is a fixed arbitrary sign :p
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Date: 2004-11-30 09:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-01 02:08 am (UTC)Here's his page on Ratemyprofessor.com (http://www.ratemyprofessor.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=25010). From what I heard from my classmates who know him today, it's all true.
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Date: 2004-12-01 06:46 pm (UTC)Could he possibly attempt to make less sense? *snort*
I'll post a rather more coherent rant about this later - when I've eaten. Since my soup is getting cold.
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Date: 2005-03-05 08:33 pm (UTC)*whacks self over the head with frying pan*
I give up. I really do. Postmodernism sucks. Let's build up postmodern theory until it's 'established', and then we can tear it apart.
He went into a rant about 'imagery' being at least 50 years out of date, and needing to move past it. Ass.
I shall now go write a paper for him. Thanks for the entertainment. ;)