the word juxtaposition...i hate it
well hate is too strong...but its a word that resurfaced [more than] a couple of years back. thanks to the words moonlighting period [encouraged by Rem Koolhaus] in architecture, it became the thing to do and say.
moonlighting: at EVERY lecture, jury, review, and critique this word would come out of the mouth of every all-black-claddded architect's mouth, with such certainty and persistent hands gestures that a student architect would automatically think of this phenomenon as a new way of thinking. As well, making it their goal to extract all information from its occurence and manipulate it to their vague interpretation of what they thought should be "juxtaposed".
the new-old words...bifurcation and dynamic are recently the most obvious, having lost or are presently losing the essence of their concepts.
both have weaseled their way into my thesis
2 comments:
How is your thesis going? I like your critical way with words and how they shape our thinking habits. By the way, juxtaposition found its way into my MA thesis years ago in a semiotic-poststructuralist approach to Shakespearean characterisation. I wish I had you insight and critical awareness of words as elements of academic pop culture. Thanks for another enlightening piece.
It's... Just a pigeon... Why am I afraid of it?
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