Favourite quotes

[bobzmyunkle]

Stretching the definition of favourite...

"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power." - Judith Butler

Yeah, sounds about right.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Stretching the definition of favourite...

"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power." - Judith Butler

Here's the context, if that helps. You may have to verify you're human for that link; something Butler would struggle to do.

I believe that was a prize winning piece of writing....

 

[C R]

I believe that was a prize winning piece of writing....

Damming with faint praise?

 

[briantrumpet]

Bloody woke git.

 

[matticus]

"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power." - Judith Butler

Park life!!!

 

[Ianonabike]

"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot." - Lucy Lawless

 

[Shortfall]

I'm just different to you, that's all. I'm not an expert on every subject.

This one wins the internet!

 

[TailWindHome]

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand,"

 

[Psamathe]

"They say there’s always someone faster. Why not be that someone?"

 

[briantrumpet]

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” - Margaret Atwood

All too relevant.

 

[briantrumpet]

Haha. Robert Graves on Dylan Thomas: "a demagogic Welsh masturbator who didn't pay his bills."

 

[Ian H]

Haha. Robert Graves on Dylan Thomas: "a demagogic Welsh masturbator who didn't pay his bills."

I'm surprised at Graves thinking demagogic meant drunk.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm surprised at Graves thinking demagogic meant drunk.

Thomas's self-assessment is amusing too.

Thomas himself wrote that the difficulty, or “obscurity”, of his poetry was based “on a preconceived symbolism derived (I’m afraid all this sounds wooly and pretentious) from the cosmic significance of the human anatomy.” He also identified in his poetry an “immature violence, rhythmic monotony, frequent muddle-headedness, and a very much overweighted imagery that leads often to incoherence.”

 

[Ian H]

Thomas's self-assessment is amusing too.

Wait till you read what Yeats said about his poetry.

 

[briantrumpet]

Wait till you read what Yeats said about his poetry.