And speaking of "higher education"....more gobbledegook masquerading as academic material? - Granite Grok

And speaking of “higher education”….more gobbledegook masquerading as academic material?

Hobo bindleI am afraid that some of the Political Correctness crap is now making it out of the hallowed halls of the Ivory Tower (where “eccentric” is a well used adjective – this is bordering on being an asylum).  And it is becoming clear that we who actually learned useful stuff from college may soon be overrun by these parasitical toddlers as they come out into the wide world and bring their virtual reality with them.  See what the Leftists have wrought!

Including this nitwittery; Powerline has decided to keep use the dipping ladle into the incoherency of the “anything except useful” studies that one can get a degree that is only effective if the “earner” is looking for yet another academic paycheck and show the rest of us where the potting soils of these badly raised kids get their ideas:

Mapping the Hobosexual: A Queer Materialism (Heather Tapley, University of Victoria)

Abstract

The following article introduces the hobosexual as a concept in queer materialism. Mapped at the intersection of not-for-profit hobo sex and labor practices historically, the hobosexual collapses the apparent impasse between the material and the symbolic so prevalent in queer studies.

The concept represents the redeployment of queer as anti-capitalist practice; highlighted are the non-normative hobo practices of nonproductive expenditure, but also the recognition that these abnormalities are organized by capitalist systems of normalization designed to engender profit. The article also considers the degree to which industrial capitalism affected both hobo mobility and hobo anti-capitalist practice in the 19th century. Generated out of hobo history and queer as anti-capitalist practice, the hobosexual represents resistance to capitalist systems of normalization and enables connections, not necessarily between identities, but between anti-capitalist practices generated out of difference.

Once again, I sit here with two STEM degrees and I have NO idea what the point it.  It does seem to be just a jumble of platitudes and “hip” insider phrases all strung together after being thrown against the wall.  It seems like there something going on that makes all hobos to be homosexuals , they don’t spend their money well, and there’s something about capitalism wedged in there sideways, sorta.  I have no clue what the authoress is trying to prove – or even discuss.

Sure, I mangle words, spelling, and grammar from time to time, but I don’t offer this stuff up for publication in an academic journal either.  I write solely because it amuses me and sometimes I think I get a few things right an in an interesting way – and I’m mighty pleased and humbled that you’ve come by and spent some time here on the ‘Grok. But I couldn’t, not even on my WORST day trying to write through writers’ block, be this bad.  But I have no doubts that the guys at Powerline will dig something else up even more trivial for topic with even more effort to dress up their pig.

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