Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, … - Paul Fry

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Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.

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Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

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Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

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I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

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The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

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I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author
authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the category of "founder of discursivity" for the authors he likes. Slippery, perhaps, but you can see what he means.

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