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amattina - 2004-02-02 14:13:59
You've got me beat. I've hung out in 21 states. (Not counting the 'stoned' state.)
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Sue T. - 2004-02-02 18:12:34
Exactly half for me. The southeast & New England are the big areas I've missed so far in my life.
Paula, I'm surprised you're not abuzz today about all of the monkey ads that ran during the Super Bowl!
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wombat - 2004-02-02 20:21:14
I've got 27, although alot of those were for less than 24 hours.
Yes PoMo needs to be put into perspective, the critical idioms are not always applied appropriately. Liteature is bigger than criticism, for it embiggens the soul.
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Paula - 2004-02-02 23:14:57
Po-mo lit-crit has always rubbed me the wrong way, glad to hear it's "so yesterday" according to H. Duff.
I didn't watch the Supa-Dupa Bowl...what monkey ads??!! I hope they're online somewhere.
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Poor Moe - 2004-02-03 19:13:02
I underwent the joy of attending grad school shortly after what the article describes as theory's heyday...so I got my fill, oh yes. The problem I had with it was the way too many of its practitioners (particularly anxious grad students) used its language essentially as a gatekeeper separating the knowing from the clueless: really, at times it felt no different than teenagers or gangstas slaying their lingo about. That said, certainly there's some value to looking at literature beyond a merely personal or aesthetic lens, particularly when limiting one's view in that way requires willful blindness to the conditions the work was written under. Not that I expect that much from even the CS Monitor on arcane theory...but still they get some key things wrong. Marxism in academia has *so* little to do w/"the Kremlin" it ain't even funny: half the time, it had little to do w/"politics" as the non-gradschool-enclaved world defines it. I'll shut up now...
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