No fair peeking…<\/p>\n
Is it A):<\/p>\n
The dialectic of Christo\u2019s \u201cGates\u201d is a reflection of the post-9\/11 zeitgeist<\/em>, absent the schadenfreude <\/em>qua nervousness that has gripped the American populace in this world of \u201cnow-more-than-ever.\u201d The semiotics of the saffron (en)robes serves an ontological function in re-animating and re-introducing the humanity of New New York to their perceptions of the orange joy of being – the being you felt as a child, vis a vis a pinata<\/em>. The Gestalt bespeaks a Foucauldian Weltschmerz<\/em>, a sumptuous feast of post-Derridian brio-cum-angst. It\u2019s in this context that \u201cThe Gates\u201d covers, even metastasizes, over Central Park like a vast dollop of neo-maternalistic, neo-Marxian mayonnaise.<\/p>\n
The panels, a touchstone of familiarity to the bourgeoisie (nursing at the paps of American Idol<\/em>), emanate as immense labia beckoning, even taunting the onlooker to become, to be <\/em>the phallus penetrating into Mother Nature – the maternal yin <\/em>imprisoned in the mechanistic yang <\/em>of the city and yet floating above the concept of restraint – the \u201cGates\u201d welcome yet repel; they silently ululate like a shtetl <\/em>of schmatte<\/em>-clad yentas <\/em>and yet remain silent with the deafening-yet-voiceless torment of the ur-mensch<\/em>; metaphysical yet material (or rather neo-material), smug in its tangibility yet internally, silently, futilely screaming in horror at its immateriality. The \u201cGates\u201d are, in short, of a piece with and yet utterly discontiguous from the fundamental leitmotifs of our age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Or is it B):<\/p>\n
“Pedagogy requires a hermeneutic ability to make interpretive sense of the phenomena of the lifeworld in order to see the pedagogic significance of situations and relations of living with children.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
OK. You may peek.<\/p>\n
\nClick for A<\/a> and B.<\/a><\/p>\nOK, OK; B is “real” – in a sense. A is merely a fiendish parody of such writing.<\/p>\n
I regret not going to graduate school so <\/em>rarely…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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