Written by someone who is trying to impress the Dissertation Committee; if it does, the dissertation committee should be dismissed.
So Marx’ ‘metabolic rift’* says that ‘in small communities, sh1t goes back into the soil, the soil doesn’t get depleted, fertilizer isn’t needed. In big cities, sh1t goes elsewhere, meaning food growers in the country need fertilizer.’ I can understand that. (Thanks!!) So, how does one look at imagination and poetry through a ‘marxian lens’, specifically the time when we used our own sh1t instead of buying it in bags? It sounds like she wants to research how cultures get spread around as people move (like Blues music going from the Delta to Chicago when sharecroppers moved north for work), but why try to look at that before it happened, and why from the point of view of Marx? So you can say ‘that poet, or imaginist(?), thought differently before the fertilizer wagon came to town?’ (She is a person whose real world logic isn’t sound…) Patrick * And it might not have been Marx.
I used to write like that when the professor wanted a ten page paper when two or three pages would have been plenty.
In school for Telecommunications, brevity was on your side. Same with Computer technologies. The instructors were techs who went teaching and retained the belief that brevity was better, except Ben. He taught computer theory and loved his word salads. I got writers cramp more than once.
When I was in College I wrote about ten pages taking the exact opposite position from how I really felt. I knew the professor's politics, and I gave her precisely what she wanted. I aced the paper.
Art imitates life, concept. They are using poetry from the timeframe to theorize about how life “could” have been. No real facts therefore the term imagination is used. No one can tell you your paper is wrong; A+ Doctor…
She is part time faculty and a student at Columbia U. in NY. (Many reports miss or exclude the fact that she IS teaching there.) She was the spokesperson who, after her group stormed a campus building and blockaded it, demanded humanitarian aid, namely, food and water for the students (and non-students?). Her group failed to plan their occupation and didn’t bring enough snacks. The reporter interviewing her pointed out that they were free to leave any time and go to the dining halls or stores. It should have been pointed out that the building they seized has running water. It didn’t matter, though; they were forcibly removed by the next day. So much for ‘higher education’…. I suspect that she’ll either be a tenured department head or an angry, debt saddled barista at a Starbucks, where her attempts to unionize will be met by the store closing for ‘realignment’ or something. Fun fact: The union that represents these folks is parts of the UAW. https://twitter.com/Jim_Banks/status/1785428526998421586 Patrick
I would love to post a response to post 32, but I'm not going to be the one to get this thread locked. Edit: I'm guessing that the post I was referring to has been deleted.
