Tuesday, March 20, 2012

As A Connoisseur Of Fine Gibberish, I Declare This Nonsense First Rate

An NYU professor gently explains the nature of his seminar:

The violence that is poised between humanitas and inhumanitas speaks to the metaphysical ordering and phantasms of everyday political terror. Are practices of political aggression separable from the Western metaphysical divide between human and animal, and what are the ideological utilities of this divide? Are acts and discourses of inhumanization how philosophical anthropology (and all anthropologies are ultimately philosophical and political) confesses itself, not as theorem or disciplinary taxonomy, but as a political culture with the most severe material criteria and bodily consequences?
When you take out that second mortgage on your house to get your child through college, remember that this is what you're paying for.  Throw in a couple of references to Jesus [or, better, the "event of Christ"] and this guy could be a bishop.

This link courtesy of an old friend Down Under.