As ek 'n klein eiertjie mag lê oor die "Groot Woorde Debat."
Die tydskrif Philosophy and Literature het in die laat 1990's 'n Bad Writing Contest gehou. Ek stel hulle aan die woord:
"The Bad Writing Contest celebrates the most stylistically lamentable passages found in scholarly books and articles published in the last few years. Ordinary journalism, fiction, departmental memos etc are not eligible, nor are parodies: entries must be non-ironic, from serious, published academic journals or books. Deliberate parody cannot be allowed in a field where unintended self-parody is so widespread. "
Die wenner was Judith Butler, 'n Guggenheim studiebeurs-wenner en professor van retoriek en letterkunde by Berkeley.
Dennis Dutton, die redakteur van Philosophy and Literature, merk in sy kommentaar droogweg: "As usual, this year's winners were produced by well-known, highly-paid experts who have no doubt laboured for years to write like this. That these scholars must know what they are doing is indicated by the fact that the winning entries were all published by distinguished presses and academic journals."
Sonder verdere verwyl dan, die wensin. Lees asb aandagtig:
"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power."
Tja, ek dink die dame verdien daai prysie.
Chigurh
(Ek het nou weer hoofpyn. Dankie Chigurh. Webvoet)