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RADICALLY TRIVIAL is a supplement of The Alternative Orange and in the tradition of the AO is committed to serious inquiries—including the serious questioning of the (seemingly) trivial and the funny. However, in these supplements, we will focus not so much on the “funny” texts, but on the pedagogy of the jest which trains comedians for the ruling class: those who are taught, through this pedagogy, to deploy the “comic” in order to cover up the daily contradictions of capitalism with parody. In their recent hiring, the English, Philosophy, Religion . . . departments have hired quite a few new jesters to join the ranks of the already established jesters in order more effectively and thoroughly to root out all vestiges of the serious from this university and to put in the place of knowledge (in Professor John W. Crowley's words) a parody of knowledge—a very sure mark of “deep thinking." In these supplements, therefore, we will focus on the master comedians in the English, Philosophy, Religion, and other humanities and social science departments since these are the primary training grounds of jesters from the ruling class.
THE RADICAL TANGERINE
Winter 1995. Volume 1. Number 3.
• Alternative Orange is so foreign •
One student, a Brooklyn native, asked "Which course has been killed? Dey keep telling me dat dis •
• unable to speak English •
• which he was a participant: "Blah blah blah blah blah post-al blah blah blah blah blah blah blah radical blah blah blah blah blah "blah" blah forces of production blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah radically trivial blah blah blah blah blah blah ...."