Quotes About Critique

This is the process by which everything from the past can be picked over, picked apart, and eventually destroyed. It can find no way of building. It can only find a way of endlessly pulling apart. So a novel by Jane Austen is taken apart until a delicate work of fiction is turned instead into nothing more than another piece of guilty residue from a discredited civilization. What has been achieved in this? Nothing but a process of destruction.

grievance studies

Fortunately, given the state of criticism these days, lots of people miss—especially the feminists, who usually throw like a girl.

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like All My Children.

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.

being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism

Gold nugget jewelry is bad.

Announcements of collaboration create a mirage of progress, without necessarily furthering the resolution of underlying issues," wrote scholar Evelyn Douek in a 2020 piece critiquing what she's dubbed "content cartels," or multi-stakeholder partnerships involving more than one company and, typically, state partners.

We agreed we're both troubled by the stiff-minded emphasis on the flag that grips much of the country these days. A flag, after all, is still only a cloth symbol. You don't show patriotism by showing blank-eyed love for a bit of cloth. And you can be deeply patriotic without covering your car with flag decals.

Standards of beauty change. If Mona Lisa went into a modeling agency today, they'd say, "Sorry, we don't need a janitor."

The gargantuan, ever-growing, ever-less-accountable, impossible-to-uproot federal bureaucracy is actually the sleeper issue of our time. It's at the heart of the conservative critique of modern government: faceless bureaucrats writing incomprehensible regulations that complicate our lives for no good reason.

Cause I'm not really a Dr. Seuss fan." I stared at her, startled. "Em, you gotta be a fuckin' communist, you don't like Dr. Seuss. Jesus.

Shit," Clutch said after a few minutes. "The high-def has totally ruined porn. Are those ingrown hairs?

Bir ÅŸeyi övmek, bir baÅŸka ÅŸeyi kötülemek anlam?na gelmez.

It delighted him that he could find no use of the word modern in Shakespeare that did not carry its load of contempt.

a focus on the "supremacy of reason" as the master trope of colonial critique has displaced the enduring affective work that such rationalities perform.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Such reliance on what everybody already knows is rhetorically but not intellectually persuasive. For what is being critiqued in contemporary theory is the very notion of the natural, the obvious, and the taken-for-granted.

Orientalism is a critique, ornamentalism a theory of being.

satirist Caran d'Ache