theory, unplugged

Amardeep Singh presents a Lacanian pre-reading of Snakes on a Plane. There's motherfucking signifiers in the motherfucking discourse, baby!

Meanwhile, Amitava Kumar dresses his daughter in the garb of theory--namely, the Arts section of the NYT, featuring my favorite photograph of Susan Sontag.

Finally, via email, my best friend informs me that the appearance of a certain appealing young Welshman on Big Brother (with respect to awareness-raising about minority language preservation) constitutes "totally gramscian superstructure politics."

Pop culture + overeducated people with time on their hands/procrastination issues = the reason I love the internets.