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Topic: Academic writing - let's write a book!
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Michelle
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posted 08 April 2008 05:45 AM
I'll start the thesis. Others can add on. No cheating by using the postmodernism generator. We all know about it. This is a creative writing thread! Or, more accurately, a non-creative writing thread!Here goes: According to Borring and Dulle (2006), the intersection of femininity and class is a socially constructed paradigm that fundamentally eschews the epistemology of previously held problematized discourse. [ 08 April 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]
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M. Spector
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posted 08 April 2008 06:53 PM
We can clearly see that there is no bi-univocal correspondence between linear signifying links or archi-writing, depending on the author, and this multi-referential, multi-dimensional machinic catalysis. The symmetry of scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we criticised previously. A machinic assemblage, through its diverse components, extracts its consistency by crossing ontological thresholds, non-linear thresholds of irreversibility, ontological and phylogenetic thresholds, creative thresholds of heterogenesis and autopoiesis. The notion of scale needs to be expanded to consider fractal symmetries in ontological terms.
(plagiarized from http://dogma.free.fr/txt/JB-Postmodernism.pdf , p. 13)
[ 08 April 2008: Message edited by: M. Spector ]
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al-Qa'bong
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posted 10 April 2008 08:26 PM
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Originally posted by Coyote:
Borring and Dulle's analysis re-conceptualizes the role of non-text in textual analysis; the non-written which underpins sentence. In depriviliging that which is said (text), that which is not-said (or assumed to be not-said) may be incorporated, liberating text from both authorship and readership.
This is obviously written by a U of S grad. You sound just like my old thesis supervisor.
As for Caissa's mocking of the use of "Weltanschauung," I actually worked at finding a way to use that word, as well as "fougasse" into my thesis, just for kicks. I didn't do so well at nailing the academic writing style, though, since the most prominent comment made following my defence was that my thesis was "eminently readable." I think this was intended as a slur, given my simple, unpretentious use of language.
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Tommy_Paine
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posted 02 November 2008 06:08 AM
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Originally posted by CMOT Dibbler:
Double meanings are funny? [ 01 November 2008: Message edited by: CMOT Dibbler ]
One of the great elements of humour, like magic, is the art of missdirection. A stand up comedian, for example, frequently leads the audience's mind to think in one direction, but the punch line comes from another direction. Physical humour does this too. Oliver Hardy steps off the sidewalk into what appears to be a small puddle on the street. Stan Laurel tries to stop him, and Hardy shrugs him off and derides his concern. The next thing we see is Hardy sinking over his head, leaving only his bowler floating on the surface. A more current example might be Homer Simpson putting gallons of barbeque starter on the grill. Anticipation mounts as he squeezes the fluid, and squeezes.... pauses to think, then squeezes some more.... and more... then throws a match on the grill, and, counterintuitively, a nice, small fire erupts in a controlled manner. Related to missdirection is the "inside joke" which demands of the audience some shared observation to understand the humour. Sometimes a comedian will share this knowledge early, then refer to it later in his act. (See Carson, Johnny, McMahon, Ed. and "done to death" Letterman, David) An added element to both missdirection and the inside joke is the double meaning. Double meanings can be obvious, crass, and childish (see Hill, Benny) or obscure. ( see Miller, Dennis). It may also depend upon a reservoir of knowledge. (See 'bong, al-Qa, above.) [ 02 November 2008: Message edited by: Tommy_Paine ]
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