![]() ![]() Louis, she said that she had wanted a career as a literature professor and had gone into the graduate program in comparative literature at Berkeley. One of my favorite letters was early on: a woman wrote to me, she was painting houses in St. So I've been getting letters for 25 years since Sexual Personae was released in 1990, from refugees from the graduate schools. ![]() So you have a kind of vampirism going on. Basically, it's been a tyranny in the humanities, because the professors who are now my age – who are the baby boomer professors, who made their careers on the back of Foucault and so on – are determined that that survive. There was no way to survive without memorizing all these stupid bromides with this referential bowing to these over-inflated figures like Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, and so on. “The universities are an absolute wreck right now, because for decades, any graduate student in the humanities who had independent thinking was driven out. ![]()
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