/lit/ - Literature

>>16880696
Paul de man was one of the emblematic characters of the 20th century, compulsive liar, bigamist, convicted of fraud ended his days in the US as a radical college professor AKA 'Boa deconstructor'. in the antisemitic literary criticism paul de man wrote for his uncle henri's magazine during the occupation, he said it would only take a dozen jews writing under aryan pseudonyms in order to irrevocably contaminate the whole of european literature. mimetic panic, were you can't know for sure if you yourself aren't a faker. one of de man's colleagues at yale, harold bloom(self described 'gnostic jew', unable to believe in god after auschwitz) wrote a whole theory of literature based around the anxiety of influence, he's remembered as a traditionalist defender of the western cannon but actually fits in with the late 20th century zeitgeist of irony, subversive quotation, pastiche, etc., next to judith butler, another rebellious talmudist who studied under the yale deconstructionists. the first culture war just like the first gulf war, never took place. It took mass haptic touchscreen feedback to scale what was an academic game of texts into a viable system for the management of populations(thank you mr engelbart!. All of the subtlety was lost on the way though.
>tfw you realize peter thiel and dr karp are the only true revolutionary marxists in america