''This is an excerpt from a blog posted on facebook. The blog
is id’d only as Research & HE blog roll, and the article is a take on how
various scholarly modes might play out the old ‘’how many….does it take to change a lightbulb’’ joke: probably of interest chiefly to people caught
up in academia and its language, and old enough to remember lightbulb jokes.
"… postmodernist scholars have deconstructed what they
characterize as a repressive hegemonic discourse of light-bulb changing, with
its implicit binary opposition between ‘light’ and ‘darkness’ and its
phalogocentric privileging of the
bulb over the socket, which they see as colonialist, sexist, and racist. .."
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Sorry, but this is way above my head. Must be because I went to that famous, overrated college in New Haven.
So I'll offer my favorite instead:
"How many shrinks does it take to change a lightbulb?
"Only one. But the lightbulb has to want to change!"
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