Monday, April 18, 2005

Pleasure Reading: NO LOGO

I had heard quite a bit about this book in the past, however I never really had time to read it. So here I am, after writing my third exam reading NO LOGO: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein.

For all those who dislike post-modernism and its ills, here is a quotation from the book to satisfy you:

"And as long as professors and students in the arts and humanities remained indifferent to this radical shift in campus culture and priorities, they were free to pursue other interests - and there were many on offer. For instance, more than a few of those tenured young radicals who were supposed to be corrupting young minds with socialist ideas were preoccupied with their own postmodernist realization that truth itself is a construct. This realization made it intellectually untenable for many academics to even participate in a political argument that would have "privileged" any one model of learning (public) over another (corporate). And since truth is relative, who is to say that Plato's dialogues are any more of an "authority" than Fox's Anastasia?" (Klein 104)

So stick that in your pipe and smoke it, you postmodernist gurus!

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