Okay David:
>Eek, Doug, what I had in mind was the 'theory market' rather than poems as
>such, though no doubt I could aver that there is poetry that could fall into
>my dismissive category. I can't quote from other lists, but elsewhere
>someone put up a post which quite unconsciously illustrated the how of the
>jargon game, how departmental and intra-university politics create a
>pressure to propound models which exist really to further the careers of
>their proponents.
Sure, theory is another area, & one which has taken a huge chunk of
academia over. The thing there is: there is a lot of really exciting
theory, just as there is a lot of really exciting poetry, & then there is
Sturgeon's 90%.
I read a lot of Derrida as a kind of intellectual poetry, & it s(w)ings.
Jargon can be a silly bit of Berlin Wall building, but it's everywhere.
Poetry does. It does.
Doug
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