Frieda gets her very first no-prize by bringing the results of this year's world's worst writing contest to our attention. First prize:
"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power."
Judith Butler, professor of rhetoric and comparative literature,University of California 1997
See! I actually did find someone wordier than me! You all owe me a dollar. Or a beer. Mmmm... beer...
Scott, a fiction writer once sent me a 2000-word essay in exactly that style. It took me a week and several really big bottles of sherry to recover.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto on May 12, 2003 04:48 PM