Posted on 01/22/2008 6:15:44 AM PST by bs9021
Polar Fiction
by: Bethany Stotts, January 22, 2008
Chicago, Ill.— Assuming the verifiable truth of global warming, some academics wish to circumvent the climate change debate and start teaching college students about importance of combatting this imminent disaster. Just as some environmentalists have co-opted the polar bear as a symbol for the predicted ecological crisis, Britt Rusert, a doctoral candidate at Duke University, visualizes polar exploration literature as a new outlet for this discourse. “How, I wonder, might such a polar canon help us conceptualize and historicize ecological crises, specifically the master discourse of global warming and their contemporary moments?,” she told a Modern Language Association (MLA) audience this December. She believes that “polar fiction is a potentially exciting place” to “certify climate change.” “What new types of inquiry could be activated...pedagogically to new environmental reality?,” she said.
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ok i read it. no idea what it says.
“no idea what it says”
That’s because she’s a crashingly boring writer.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
Oh, and I forgot to mention, really pompous, too.
How, I wonder, do people speak like this in real life and think that they sound intelligent?
Whatta yutz.
These strings of academic cliches are how you must write if you want to get ahead in academia.
As in using ‘-ize’ to turn a noun into a verb.
That’s very au courant.
She’s bowing, nay, groveling, to her academic masters.
Buzz word bingo.
Geez, that must have been an exciting convention.
Ding, ding, ding -she's a commie.
Now perhaps you understand the mindset that can conjure an expression like this one: “How, I wonder, might such a polar canon help us conceptualize and historicize ecological crises, specifically the master discourse of global warming and their contemporary moments?"
The truth (there's an idea for you) is that linguistic deconstruction serves the project of the "Progressive" left quite well: it denies all objective standards of value and demands the service of human "needs" (all equally valid), requiring the hand of government in every conceivable economic human relationship.
Sometimes I wonder what real scientific advances could be made if scientists were not married to global warming.
Is this sarcasm?
Assuming the verifiable truth of global warming, some academics wish to circumvent the climate change debate and start teaching college students about importance of combatting this imminent disaster.
Let's all assume the AGW crapola is true and get on with the propaganda.
Just as some environmentalists have co-opted the polar bear as a symbol for the predicted ecological crisis, Britt Rusert, a doctoral candidate at Duke University, visualizes polar exploration literature as a new outlet for this discourse.
Britt thinks we should have novels set in the polar regions to push the propaganda.
“How, I wonder, might such a polar canon help us conceptualize and historicize ecological crises, specifically the master discourse of global warming and their contemporary moments?,” she told a Modern Language Association (MLA) audience this December. She believes that “polar fiction is a potentially exciting place” to “certify climate change.”
Because fiction is such a great way to confuse facts with fiction, we can certify our propaganda without having to prove anything.
“What new types of inquiry could be activated...pedagogically to new environmental reality?,” she said.
If we propagandize well enough, we can change how reality is perceived.
Circumvent the debate...to use literature to promote the discourse??
My mind is spinning!
Perhaps that is the intent.
Regards
Bonehead
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