Cultural Theory/Playing in the Dark

[choochela]

I have to say, it is fairly discouraging to be one of the only people in my department who has a strong focus in theory. So when I find an articulate and accessible cultural theorist, i feel victorious. With the help of Derrida, Laclau, Foucault and Butler, Stuart Hall encapsulates much of my thesis in his introduction.

Identification turns

Comments

[adiezel]

i concur.

but where do we go from here?

ah, a dark horse in the running

[choochela]

from where? Have we gotten somewhere?

last I checked, creationism, biological determinism, modern eugenics, hate crimes and every other social ill born of essentialism were alive and well.

If you want to personally and hypothetically move on, go any damn place you please. But I urge you to question if you yourself have actually reached a mile stone.

wallowing

[adiezel]

oh, right. i guess i'm not there yet. i attach myself to principles that i think i understand, and then move on/forget/back-log them to lend my life an appearence of narrative and meaning.
i think i see where you're going with this.
these, too, are provisional terms.
the milestones i felt i reached last semester were deconstructions of oberver/observed, recognitions of the body as textual, and belabored explorations of the potential for truthful confession. i think the problems arise because i try to take the theory and apply it to my "personal life" (a.k.a. when i'm not writing essays) and then feel like, "OK, I am more aware of the contradictions in my thought and speech than ever before, so where do I go from here?"
i think i am asking if you can relate.