I just read this sentence and now I need to lie down:
Implicitly and less often explicitly, a concern for the desubjectification of readers charges much of what follows, with all the complications that conceptualizing both subjectivity and readership as such entail.
Judith Butler, or Pierre Bourdieu? Or one of their evil acolytes?
One of the good parts about escaping the humanities (there are several others, but this one’s most relevant here) is that I’ll never read anything by either of those authors ever again.
