Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Newsflash: the secret lives of intellectuals are boring

Apparently public intellectuals do not understand the term "guilty pleasure." Hint: it does not mean “computer programming,” Richard Dawkins, and the fact that that’s the best you could come up with makes you seem sorta repressed, or like your initial submission was “snuff films” and they had to tell you to take it down a notch. Another thing I learned: public intellectuals are basically just girls on Facebook (Stanley Fish: “Favorite music: so embarrassing, but I can’t stop listening to country!! For real though, indie rock, miles davis, and regina spector.”).
I thought we were kind of past the idea of “guilty pleasures." WINNERS: Catherine MacKinnon and Zizek, the only ones to point that out. I bet they would have a cool / fucked up baby.

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