tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768781.post114507172123492375..comments2023-10-28T11:32:27.537-04:00Comments on ATLmalcontent: Future VH-1 commentatorsATL malcontenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05507252084878498589noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768781.post-1145074007554081022006-04-15T00:06:00.000-04:002006-04-15T00:06:00.000-04:00While I can't bring myself to take this stuff seri...While I can't bring myself to take this stuff seriously, I must confess that I enjoy it. Academic theorizing is a strange and self-important enterprise, and I think part of why it tends to fly off into la-la land is that there simply aren't enough truly good ideas in the world to satisfy everybody's need for tenure. Adherents of various schools of analysis organize themselves and campaign for the value of their particular approach, and given that scholars are rarely called to account for their ideas in relation to what the rest of us consider "the real world," it's ultimately less important that their ideas are "right" in any meaningful sense and more important that other academics find them interesting or, in this case, fun. I for one applaud any intellectual movement that strives to make a scholarly virtue of bad puns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com