faq
Isn't "the new humanities" an arrogant kind of label?
No. If anyone
else wants to contribute to it,
they're welcome. And,
in lieu of any other
serious attempt to rebuild this much-maligned
discipline,
I may as well
start here...
Is "John Henry Calvinist" your real name?
Don't be stupid.
Well, who are you then?
My name is David Mac
Kinnon [born 1962 & not dead yet]
and I live in Brisbane, Australia and, no...I don't pass out
photos
except to consenting
adults
of the opposite sex.
Why don't you review film &
television?
Why
don't you?
Why don't you review fiction?
Because the major
reviews have a strong bias towards
fiction - as do amateur
review sites. Anyway, whatever type of fiction
you favour,
the net'll provide you with a plethora of information.
When it comes to
non-specialist, intelligent commentary on non-fiction
for people
in search of ideas, there's a definite shortage
of sites.
And...of those,
none are predicated on rebuilding the humanities.
Why don't you review "serious"
music?
...get
stuffed...
Why do you write so much about science?
Originally, the
humanities was a broadly integrative
ideal - built around
the non-specialist discipline of rhetoric. If
you'd
asked this question
of any of the first generation humanists, they'd've
wondered
what the hell you were going on about...
And, given the state of
the anti-humanist, post-Saussurean so-called
"Humanities" today, I think that
a serious dose of what they have been
so
busily ignoring
is definitely needed.
Why don't you write about [some
incredibly interesting
area I don't know anything about]?
I'm a generalist, not
an encyclopedia. And I am
looking for contributors...
What do you think of [insert
your favorite French
theorist here]?
Don't ask - as far
as
I'm concerned, French "high
theory"
got mostly off on
the wrong foot w/Descartes,
and has been busily
mining crap ever since.
Aren't you merely promoting some
form of naive
realism?
Next time you wake up
in something other than
consensual reality, let me know.
I like hearing from tourists...
Can you write my assignment for
me?
Yes, but it won't come
cheap. Also, I only do
that kind of work for hire
in intellectually worthless areas
- when I'm in debt & depressed
and where
undermining
the current educational order won't
cause things in the real world to screw
up & hurt people.
And, if that's the kind
of degree you're pursuing,
just maybe you should ask yourself:
"is this trip really necessary?"
