The Great Flâneur Massacre: An Untimely Novella-istic Monstrosity in Quasi-Dramatic Format (The Great Flâneur Narrative, #1) (eBook, ePUB)
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| Hersteller: | Wallace Runnymede (Runnymede, Wallace) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
What happens when the "objects of study" start becoming subjects, and talking back to their enlightened benefactors? Is such incomprehensible arrogance and hubris something that can ever be tolerated within the Olympian heights of the ivory tower? Who are you to tell your benefactor that their conspicuous benevolence is somehow inappropriate? Who are you to doubt their self-evident sincerity? How much more so, their evidently superior intellect and knowledge? The Great Flâneur Massacre does not promise to answer these questions for you. However, this viciously satirical account of a disastrous "postmodern humanitarian" academic conference does, at least, avow one humble micropolitical aspiration: To shine a light on the pompous pretentions and condescending paternalism to which all of us who aspire to be scholars in the humanities may (at one time or another) be subject. From the intrusive concern Stamp Rhodes shows for the "exotic" inhabitants of Shangri-La, to the patronising baby-talk of Helena Smotherington and the self-conscious "privilege-checking" of Stepton Coker, no-one's critical practice (in the end) is found worthy of the grand, noble and ever elusive title of "innocent." Indeed: not even the world's most notable edgy humanitarian radical performance artist, "Klubber Bonez," can save his global justice collaborators from a fate worse than a superficially glowing review from the "mainstream media," or (Foucault forbid!) a missed tenure opportunity. Still, such is only to be expected. For as the notable intellectual figure Skinner Green informs us: The Greater Good and The Public Interest are grander and more glorious clarion calls to obedience than the merely subjective private opinions of the crude and uneducated Herd.
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