Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Isms and fancy talk

in Cincinnati i have excitedly learned to grasp many new words
a plethora if you will
my mind has been blown to a large extent

aesthetic
gouache
anti-fashion
photorealism
composition
objectification
chiaroscuro
conceptual
postmodernist
Luddite
postcolonialism
postindustrial

and then later

agency
misnomer
Metropolitan Statistical Area
sustainability
deindustrialization
Rustbelt
Sunbelt
settler colony
Bantu
exurb
neocolonial
caudillo
Marxist
anti-racist
nationalism
Orientalism
Islamophobia
imam
Hegelian dialectic
Other
historiography
social capital
class
tautological
Urban Appalachian
whiteness
discourse
segregation
gentrification
opression
activism
anarchist
heteronormative
GRE
fellowship
tenured

and some others

now i am moving again
would fain that i were shipping out for the Third World
or throwing myself at humanitarian crises
and spicy foods
rather than moving in with more fleshless ideological abstractions
alas alack this great flatness the Buckeye State has sucked me in for another spell
what new words await?

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