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Nice ideas and all, but alas, I cannot recommend it, and indeed eschew it as a manifesto text in particular, and this is why:
'The very process of construction is therefore understood to be a negentropic, iterative, and continual refashioning.'
WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!
'Systematic thinking and structural analysis have largely fallen by the wayside in favour of admirable, but insufficient struggles, bound to fixed localities and fragmented insurrections.'
My dudes, my buddies, there is no need to write this so inaccessibly. Try 'Large scale, long term thought is necessary to create lasting change, but the ease of localised thinking and short term solutions is usually favoured.'
I have a Master's degree in Narrative Theory, and getting through this 96 page book took me over a month and a half. I used to read out entire paragraphs to friends and we'd try and wade through the lexical treacle to parse a grain of meaning out of them, often unsuccessfully. This text simply doesn't function as a manifesto; it's hard to call people to your radical new ideas if no-one can understand them. You have to write for the proles and the plebs like me, who yearn desperately to hear radical new ways of thinking but also don't eat thesauruses for brunch. As an academic, I beg academics to stop writing like this. It achieves not a thing.
'The very process of construction is therefore understood to be a negentropic, iterative, and continual refashioning.'
WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!
'Systematic thinking and structural analysis have largely fallen by the wayside in favour of admirable, but insufficient struggles, bound to fixed localities and fragmented insurrections.'
My dudes, my buddies, there is no need to write this so inaccessibly. Try 'Large scale, long term thought is necessary to create lasting change, but the ease of localised thinking and short term solutions is usually favoured.'
I have a Master's degree in Narrative Theory, and getting through this 96 page book took me over a month and a half. I used to read out entire paragraphs to friends and we'd try and wade through the lexical treacle to parse a grain of meaning out of them, often unsuccessfully. This text simply doesn't function as a manifesto; it's hard to call people to your radical new ideas if no-one can understand them. You have to write for the proles and the plebs like me, who yearn desperately to hear radical new ways of thinking but also don't eat thesauruses for brunch. As an academic, I beg academics to stop writing like this. It achieves not a thing.
