Attack of the Theory Zombies
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Attack of Theory Zombies!
Real Death on the Screen ate my brain
by Sue Donym
For the past few decades, an evil plague has spread through the halls of colleges across the land; we’ll call its sufferers the Theory Zombies. Theory Zombies spend years of their lives analyzing the arts to the point of madness, often taking a few things that are fine in their own right—say, Marxism, feminism and mid-’60s sitcoms–and swirling them all together in a lumpy, unpalatable stew. Thus you get endless dissertations about sex as capital based on some 30-second scene in an ancient Gilligan’s Island rerun. Theory Zombies are extremely dogmatic and witheringly unfun to be around, and if you’ve ever been trapped with one for 10 minutes–if you have ever in your life heard the phrases "postmodernism" or "the male gaze"–then reading this now is probably triggering some pretty traumatic flashbacks.
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Attack of Theory Zombies!
Real Death on the Screen ate my brain
by Sue Donym
For the past few decades, an evil plague has spread through the halls of colleges across the land; we’ll call its sufferers the Theory Zombies. Theory Zombies spend years of their lives analyzing the arts to the point of madness, often taking a few things that are fine in their own right—say, Marxism, feminism and mid-’60s sitcoms–and swirling them all together in a lumpy, unpalatable stew. Thus you get endless dissertations about sex as capital based on some 30-second scene in an ancient Gilligan’s Island rerun. Theory Zombies are extremely dogmatic and witheringly unfun to be around, and if you’ve ever been trapped with one for 10 minutes–if you have ever in your life heard the phrases "postmodernism" or "the male gaze"–then reading this now is probably triggering some pretty traumatic flashbacks.
(more at link)
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