Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Not crudely enough

I'm taking a class on postmodern art, and most of the reading is "dense" (read: POORLY WRITTEN) postmodern theory. Because of the language these writers use, it's pretty hard to teach their work to undergraduates—or anybody not totally immersed in this kind of thinking. This sentence should give you an idea of the language standards of these works:

Thus, to put it crudely, certain ways in which black men continue to live out their counteridentities as black masculinities and replay those fantasies of black masculinities in the theaters of popular culture are, when viewed from along other axes of difference, the very masculine identities that are oppressive to women, that claim visibility for their hardness only at the expense of the vulnerability of black women and the feminization of gay black men.

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