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Category: Theory

Critical theory & theorists.

De Condimentis (13): Maple Syrup

By: Tom Nealon

Why didn’t Europe crack the secret of maple syrup?

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Rosario Castellanos

By: William Nericcio

She wielded mad intellectual superpowers.

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A Masonic Tool…

By: HILOBROW

Morrisey — Don Hill — Clayton? Yon Lordly Masonic Hitler!

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Skrullicism (5): Physical Therapist

By: HILOBROW

“Physical therapist” = shape-shifter!

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Skrullicism (4): Dairy Farmer

By: HILOBROW

Got Skrull?

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Bad Thoughts

By: HILOBROW

I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, by Mark Dery

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Blue Krishma!

By: Joshua Glenn

You’ll be doing all right, with your Christmas of white.

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Paul de Man

By: Mark Kingwell

“Yale Scholar Wrote for Pro-Nazi Newspaper”

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Watching the Detectives

By: Joshua Glenn

Richard Linklater adapts Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly.

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Enter Highbrowism

By: Joshua Glenn

A 1911 exposé of a mutant species with high brows

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Jean-François Lyotard

By: Mark Kingwell

He urged an endless, playful agonistics of intellectual engagement.

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Pierre Bourdieu

By: Mark Kingwell

He analyzed the motives of every act, including the act of analysis.

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Skrullicism (3): Socrates

By: Greg Rowland

Socratic irony… elenctic method, or Skrull stratagem?

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The Black Iron Prison

By: Joshua Glenn

Skepticism, cynicism, irony, and contempt vs. the BIP

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Origin of the Pogo

By: Joshua Glenn

Did Sid Vicious really invent this British dance move?

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