(^{radically trivial}) The Radical Tangerine: Thought Police Nab Wrong Clown

Name-calling as the Radical •

• been struggling to put a smiley face on Bourgeois University for several months now. I never thought that AO crowd would cave in. Think of it: these are people who think there's a direct link between jesting and fascism.

Meanwhile, the clown-pedagogue wanted in connection with the death of discourse at Bourgeois University is still at large. Thought Police have no new leads.

• Tangerine offices, high atop at Giovanni Gentile Hall, the editor of the RT, Ludwig Van Orman Kripkestein, confirmed that he counted the AO cave-in as a victory.

• the biggest cave-in since •

One student, a Brooklyn native, asked "Which course has been killed? Dey keep telling me dat dis course is dead! I don't know which course dey mean!"

• their idiosyncratic "discourse."

Imagine anyone seriously proposing that "Brooklyn accent" is racist!

Despite its apparent similarity to English, •

• "Are you kidding?"

• didn't realize these folks took themselves so seriously!"

• the English Department that it's affected their judgment. "Brooklyn accent" is racist? How does that figure? And what in the world is a new-age fascist? •

• Are you kidding? Who can fit that role?"

• calling the case an assassination, he replied, "We're not sure yet. It may have been a suicide. It may have been a mercy killing. It may even have been just a friendly little joke. •

We would love for you to offer non-questioning-begging arguments in favor of any of the positions you take. For instance, That clown pedagogy legitimates bigotry. We'll wait; take all the time you need.

It's just that you never deliver, you just keep repeating your opinions over and over, like some kind of mantra.

• Extremism in the defense of theory is no vice."

• formalizes the mimesis of shame •

• satiric works by Swift and Voltaire are read to prisoners who are shocked with 12-volt cattle prods at any sign of amusement, until by this negative conditioning complete humorlessness is •

• Remember: extremism in the defense of theory is no vice."

Asked to explain the/DIPSHIT obsession with creative writing programs, Dedalus merely shrugged. "It's beyond me."

"There's just no way that a lone clown-pedagogue could have fired off a Radical Tangerine, reloaded, and fired off two more in the time alloted. •

• the people at Bourgeois University ought to take care of their own problems and not come crying to us because they have some problem with clown pederasty. If a bunch of clowns want to be pederasts, what's it to us? •

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• Should we be offended? Please advise, ASAP.

• favorably disposed to the death of truth, and murmured among themselves against the speaker's foundationalist tendencies.

• obtaining in the post-al academy •

• the emergence of a recontextualized neo-post-Hegelian concept of the self.

The RT interview: Jacques Derrida on Heidegger and Nazism: Why it's really okay •

• star....it's just so out of character, you don't expect it."

Jacques Marx and Karl Derrida, of The Center for Self-Importance, •

"It's pretty clear that they accused the wrong guy," said •

DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I THINK I AM?

• (claiming that identity presupposes a neo-Hegelian concept of the self which she finds problematic). "They can't or won't admit what's happened. •

• these people are in denial," •

• cafe communists     real Marxists ought to be out trying to blow up the ROTC or something. Yes, •

"Show me a person with no sense of humor," said Barbeque, "and I'll show you a potential academic revolutionary."

• subjected to hours of merciless torture, •

• might have been a conspiracy; we just don't know yet."

• intellectual production in terms of the geneology of the power structure •

• the class struggle vectorizing the drive to tenure is deromanticized as the fundamental gesture by which the tropes of differance are rehistoricized and reconstructed out of an interpretive semiology of value according to which signified and signifier are sublimated by the mythologizing tendencies of the economic practices of the owners of the means of communicative production resulting in the disempowerment of the revolutionary class and an inauthentic Marxism •

But as you know, the results were disastrous. Students emerged from the chamber unable to speak English.

• transformation of the modes of intellectual production as a means by which ownership of the means of material production can be transferred to an academic class able to expropriate the expropriators •

• blah blah blah blah blah blah radical blah blah blah blah blah "blah" blah forces of production •

• the withering-away of the academy which is possible only after the dictatorship of the intellectual proletariat has transformed the theory of the leisure class into the leisure of the theory class •

• imagine the AO—the standard of obscurantist jargon/rhetorical fog—accusing anyone of speaking through a fog! (Isn't this the pot calling the so staunchly self-important kettle black? •

• revolutionaries who don't want to get their hands dirty."

• Alternative Orange I & II, a foreign language •

• Thought Police spokesmodel •

• Truth?" asked one speaker, who seemed surprised at the small crowd's response to her call to arms.

• Thought Police's Department of Intellectual Purification, Special Humor Inquiry Team (DIPSHIT) •

• Discourse (BUTTHEAD) defended the Thought Police's use of the Humor Immunity Tank.

• Interpol's International Division of Intellectual Obfuscation and Terrorism (IDIOT).