Word: theoretician
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...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 after...
Chinese intellectuals are engaged in a spirited debate about just what can be accommodated under a Marxism stripped to its barest essentials. The sale of stock in a business? Yes, says one theoretician, as long as the shares are bought by employees, or possibly their neighbors if an enterprise happens to be a collective (a few of which have in fact sold shares). An exchange on which employees and neighbors could trade the shares among themselves? "That is under study." A social scientist specializing in Marxist ideology goes so far as to suggest that since Marxism-Leninism purports...
Deng's sweeping vision for China is all the more remarkable for his lack of intellectual pretense. Unlike the late Mao Tse-tung, his mentor and eventual nemesis, Deng has never claimed to be either a scholar or a Marxist theoretician. Nor does he possess the studied mandarin sophistication of the late Premier Chou En-lai, another longtime comrade-in-arms. Not that Deng lacks for a keen intelligence or a world view. But what he has consistently sought to impose is a preference for gradual rather than sudden change and for pragmatism over doctrine. In discussing China's second...
...existing magazine ads to expose their underlying messages of desire, domination and anxiety. As always, the newer phalanx of artists tended to look back at whoever had come just before and wince. "There was a traditional view that I grew up with," says Peter Halley, who emerged as a theoretician of what got called Neo-Geo. "Artists had a high calling. They should not let things out of their studio that were...
...bold experimentation in both form and materials. A lifelong devotee of Swiss modernist Le Corbusier, Tange shared many of his idol's best and worst tendencies-his buildings could be brutal, cold and impractical, and have never been as well-loved as they are well-respected. A tireless theoretician and teacher, Tange's four-decade reign as one of architecture's brightest stars launched the careers of numerous disciples who continue his modernist mission-as he described it, to seek "the union of technology and humanity." By Jim Frederick...