Word: poststructuralist
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...fundamentally opposed to the ideal of academia, which has proven most influential when it has pressed conventional knowledge to its limits and challenged traditional ways of thinking. It is perhaps true is that the trend of academic scholarship today lends itself to progressive thinking, as postmodernist and poststructuralist analytical frameworks inherently lend themselves to a liberal view of the world. Taking nothing for granted, these styles of teaching encourage critical approaches to the establishment (whether conventional scientific wisdom or the literary canon). The underlying philosophy is analogous to loose judicial interpretation, which is a liberal ideal. The critical point here...
...missing link is all that wonderful psychosexual craziness—that sense of uncanny terror—and most all the creepy feeling that the screen is acting out repressed fears and desires you didn’t know you had. You could take everyone’s favorite poststructuralist gender theoretician, Judith Butler, and her old sparring partner, Donna Haraway, to most 1970s horror films and watch them battle it out over a cappuccino after the movie. Nowadays, they’d probably just yawn endlessly like I do at the horror-junk Hollywood churns out. A hypothetical conversation...
...Poststructuralist...
...proudly. "She now seemed aware of the implications of the term slave trade." True, there are occasional wry moments. Stanley Fish, the avant-garde chairperson of the English department at Duke, proclaims that the university's commitment to affirmative-action hiring is a way to seize "our historicist, postmodernist, poststructuralist moment...
...perceptive and sweetly ridiculous as the other. Sexually, it is Robyn who is the lighthearted aggressor and Vic who, after spending a single night with her, turns into a love-sick calf and begins making alarming declarations about leaving his "podge" of a wife. Robyn, ever the teacher, expounds poststructuralist literary theory to him in bed, explaining that what he mistakes for love is merely a rhetorical device, a bourgeois fallacy. "Haven't you ever been in love, then?" he asks. "When I was younger," she replies, "I allowed myself to be constructed by the discourse of romantic love...
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