Sunday, March 05, 2006

Neologize or die!

The Sheriff and I have discovered that all of postmodern discourse can be reduced to one defining factor: the pluralization of abstract nouns or adjectives in order to sound aloof and analytic. We present as examples:

Logics
Poetries
Publics
Musics
Global feminisms (any "-ism" is just so damn good)
Justices
Courages
Hip-hops
Everyone's favorite, knowledges
Feminomena
Nepotiblogocracies

You get the idea. In celebration of vacuity (vacuities?), we propose "Wash Av Huffy Crew Contest #87: Neologize for New Knowledges." Give us your best pluralized term, preferably within the context of a mock journal title, e.g.: "The (re)hypostatization of Barney Fife?: Towards a new taxonomy of courages and the hermeneutics of panopticism in the 'Andy Griffith Show.'" We include here for your pleasure a really fucking weird picture of Michel Foucault.

16 Comments:

Blogger dchan said...

greeds and injustices in classical athenses

4:13 PM  
Blogger Austin 5-000 said...

"He whose size cannot be stated in this discourse: Reconceptualizing Allah in the Age of Lyotard"

4:34 PM  
Blogger to scranton said...

Um, plural noun?

4:44 PM  
Blogger danny marcus said...

a list of all the plural nouns in the table of contents of Deleuze's "A thousand plateaus":

issues
directions
misdeeds
multiplicities
packs
strata
milieus
forms
substances
epistrata
parastrata
states
metastrata
postulates
linguistics
order-words
acts
transformations
dates
variables
aspects
constants
regimes
signs
doubles
organs
waves
intensities
figures
novellas
lines
micropolitics
masses
classes
dangers
planes
conceptions
zones
systems
becomings
theorems
interassemblages
refrains
poles
sciences
affects
tools
arms
lineages
complexities
groups
towns
States
organizations
ages
rules
machines

4:44 PM  
Blogger Robot said...

"The Educations of Henry Adams: Disraeli, Palmerston, and the Last Great Age of American Diplomacy in England, 1861-1867"

4:58 PM  
Blogger danny marcus said...

"The eigth dandyism of Olafur Pont-Peigneaux: Foppisms, bragadoccio, and minor fartings in the poetics of Francophone-Finnish bachelor farmer communard-agrarianisms"

5:00 PM  
Blogger danny marcus said...

It should be noted that the hebrew letters in the foucault picture spell out his name phonetically: fu-ko.

Deleuze on the early days of his philosophical career:

"What got me by during that period was conceiving of the history of philosophy as a kind of ass-fuck, or, what amounts to the same thing, an immaculate conception. I imagined myself approaching an author from behind and giving him a child that would indeed be his but would nonetheless be monstrous."

The footsteps we follow in.

5:07 PM  
Blogger to scranton said...

I eschew Deleuze's philosophical buggery for a more playful nipple tweak. It is my great hope that someday scholars will refer to "Scantronian purplenurpleism."

6:29 PM  
Blogger Josh the Hippie Killer said...

Harvardians
Dailyshowisms

Hippie Killer reserves all intellecual property rights regarding neologisms coined in this post.

9:49 PM  
Blogger shrf said...

Touche, Hippie killer, but your efforts to negate me have proven their own failure, as you obviously had to read my post in order to attempt to take me down. I however will mock you without deigning to read you!

--Joshs

(!)

10:29 PM  
Blogger danny marcus said...

Speaking of neologisms, here's what writing about Matthew Barney does to one's sense of acceptable diction:

"What is a “hemorrhoidal distractor?” In DELAY OF GAME and RADIAL DRILL, the “distractor” is a candy-red skeet, used in shotgun shooting (another metaphor for ejaculation?) as the moving target. During one scene in RADIAL DRILL, the skeet comes flying out of nowhere to crash against Barney’s reared rear end, shattering at the precise moment at which a saltwater pearl is pulled by a string from his anus."

2:26 AM  
Blogger shrf said...

Strangely enough, the most out of place bit I can pick out is "flying out of nowhere"

4:50 AM  
Blogger dchan said...

REIDEALIZINGS!!!!*

*courtesy of judith butler

10:50 AM  
Blogger to scranton said...

dchan wins, hands down. I simply cannot speak in the face of "reidealizings." Congratulationses.

12:37 PM  
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Blogger Darren Demers said...

It should be noted that the hebrew letters in the foucault picture spell out his name phonetically: fu-ko.
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