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Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies
John N. Duvall is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University and the author of The Identifying Fictions of Toni Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness and Faulkner's Marginal Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities .
238 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2001
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June 6, 2022
Man this book sucks. One of those "let's fill it up with 5 dollar words and the academics will pretend to like it so they look smart". There are some gems in here (once you've parsed through all the "I gotta hand in my assignment" verbosity). Who in the hell uses "complicitous" in a sentence? My spellcheck doesn't even have it in it's dictionary. Not worth reading but interesting to skim through.
A failed attempt to capture the "Pervert's Guide" essence. "Oh hai fam, we talk about Blade Runner in this!". At one point they mention "hip academics" as a pejorative. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony)
I don't mean to dunk on the author, I'm just a bit mad because it has potential if it was re-written for readers and not to impress 5 Gen X'ers at a wine and cheese night off Campus.
In the IT industry we call this "spaghetti code". It's incoherent.
tl;dr: lorem ipsum the book
A failed attempt to capture the "Pervert's Guide" essence. "Oh hai fam, we talk about Blade Runner in this!". At one point they mention "hip academics" as a pejorative. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony)
I don't mean to dunk on the author, I'm just a bit mad because it has potential if it was re-written for readers and not to impress 5 Gen X'ers at a wine and cheese night off Campus.
In the IT industry we call this "spaghetti code". It's incoherent.
tl;dr: lorem ipsum the book
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