Camille Paglia Part1

Hers is a ridiculous critique, she criticizes postmodernism for its performativity for those pursuing a career in academic while dismissing it for its lack performativity.

Her crutch is co-opting disciplines. She's the Ann Coulter of public intellectuals.

Keep chasing that pop cultural 'buzz', Camille.

wow she dissed her own school

DETAILS OF AFRICA—Africa has sent shivers down the spines of decent people for centuries as it's the scariest continent on God's blue Earth. Nobody wants to live there as it's teeming with snakes & spiders. There are stories, mythological in nature, of drunken, black-skinned people nakedly pursuing each other through the thickets that virtually make the continent impenetrable. Word on the streets is that Africa is evil, full of witches & Negroes.

most feminists think she is a moron ... and she is

And that sets her apart from today's feminists...how?

Oh, I have no problem with most feminists (a few are a bit misguided in rather navel-gazing manners). Paglia is nominally contrary and always focussed on matters of almost zero importance. But, forget that - what I dislike is her puffy writing form, used mostly to disguise the fact that she is talking absolute shite about. This is annoying when she is writing about nothing (see: media studies) but downright offensive when she is trying to address matters of import. Sugared, Idle, bar chat.

Puffy writing style? What are you talking about.? Paglia is as incisive as a sharpened blade - the last thing her style is is "puffy". And as to 'zero importance' - while entire university departments were disappearing up their own fundaments in a swamp of po-mo blether, she had the courage to speak about real issues in a clear and honest voice.

She is one of the most honest academics the US has ever produced and everything she has written - agree with it or not - is well-worth reading.

Having followed Camille Paglia; the public figure, ever since her first appearance on Donahue I can tell you that she does not actively pursue media status. Her primary drive is to be a good college professor and the fame derived from being an author is circumstantial. The world shaping ideas she plants into peoples minds will find more "fertile ground" in classrooms than TV.

I wish I'd been able to follow her as long as you have (I'm only 22); Sexual Personae has influenced my thinking far more than anything else I've ever read. It'd be great if she wrote more books.

Its all abut post-structuralism.

She doesn't dare mention the dominance of "democratic" mass culture since the 1960s.