Comments on: Good Quote, Bad Quote

By: Endie

Endie — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:53:39 +0000

Reminds me of one of the authors on Terra Nova, to be honest, but it would need to have a terribly annoying question at the end and about 18 links, one for each allusion.

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:24:31 +0000

Yeah, I had something of the same feeling: I’d been reading lots of critical theory, was deep inside the space of theory, and was starting to really feel like I’d lost the trail of breadcrumbs that would lead me out. Then a friend told me to read Data Trash, that it was really useful, and I was like, “This makes no sense whatsoever.”. Then I started going back and reading other things, and let’s just say there were a lot of naked emperors to be found.

By: cgbrooke

cgbrooke — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:13:04 +0000

Talk about a blast from the grad school/pomo past!

If there’s one “good” thing to say about the K’s, it’s that they helped me find that threshold beyond which my own personal “logistics of desire” would not follow. Heh. Vectoring along the vapor trail indeed…

cgb

By: Sdorn

Sdorn — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:15:34 +0000

Maybe we have a new method for creating Bulwer-Lytton Contest entries: use nonsensical jargon as inspiration? Let's see: "Recumbent after a three-martini lunch, advertising executive Jeff Switzpiggle synecdochied his industry's obsession with translating the body into e-viscera, languidly letting the flesh on his upper arm sway to the beat of his latest release for the new perfume "Putrescence" as he watched the 30-second commercial on his 144-inch office screen, unable to sense let alone ignore the approaching knife in the hands of a frenzied post-Foucaultian English grad student frustrated with the drawing of her peers into the orbit of commercial pop culture and determined to end the charade of opiate ocular therapy with a single slice."