Read My Mind!

Why I am not a Postmodernist

Dawkins Review of Intellectual Impostures

Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life, collect a coterie of reverent disciples and have students around the world anoint your pages with respectful yellow highlighter. What kind of literary style would you cultivate? Not a lucid one, surely, for clarity would expose your lack of content.

With this, Richard Dawkins begins a wonderful review of Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. This book reveals Postmodernism for the easy tenure exploit it is.

Lisa Snelling's Fanciful and Disturbing Sculpture and Illustration

Neil Gaiman had a link to some very interesting rat sculptures by the artist Lisa Snelling. Snelling makes rats for fun on the side, but while looking at the site, I stumbled into a gallery of her more deliberate work in sculpture and illustration and loved it. So, now I'm wondering how to approach my wife about the shameful lack of original statuary in the living room and don't even get me started about our lack of disturbing, signed illustations in the hall.