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Just read through your reply to Atari, Mirror dash, and found a lot of it very interesting. Although I tend to side with Atari on the whole 'lunatics taking over the asylum' issue, I believe that these lunatics better represent those that have chosen to apply ideas put forward by the likes of Barthes, Lacan, etc with almost no regard for their original purpose and/or context. This has led to something of an intellectual cul-de-sac within large areas of the humanities, as over-enthusiastic (but often under-read) academics attempt to apply Deleuze to absolutely anything and everything. Toolbox is right. It's just a shame that universities are increasingly coming to the job armed only with a single spanner.
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