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05-01-2006, 08:37 PM
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| | | Shit and Postmodern Literature - Wikipedia at its best http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_literature "Excrement Literature, which began as a Russian, most authors tended to be both male and female at the same time, literary movement in the 1990's, also became an American genre with the publication of Toilet: The Novel. Although the term Excrement Literature is wide embracing, it has been linked to Neo-Existentialism, which combines elements of Post-Modern and Existential thought, using the modern symbol of the bathroom and everything contained therein as an expression of modern life and the dying consciousness to break free from it."
Who the fuck is allowed to edit Wikipedia? I was seriously reading this for my British lit class. I didn't include the shit parts in my essay. | 
05-01-2006, 08:40 PM
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| | | i wonder if gg allin was a recognized member of the existential excrement movement? he liked doodie and he was an artist. | 
05-01-2006, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by sweetheart_d i wonder if gg allin was a recognized member of the existential excrement movement? he liked doodie and he was an artist. | Wonder if R. Kelly was involved as well.
"R. Kelly's 1949 novel, I'll Shit On You Too, is one of the benchmark novels of 20th Century British excrement literature." | 
05-01-2006, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by emily34695 Who the fuck is allowed to edit Wikipedia? | anyone. and that's precisely the problem.
__________________ then she dances skirt swaying in the half-light she dances white blossom in the black sky
'I need new clothes', she thinks, 'new skin, a mind I can bear to live in'. | 
05-01-2006, 08:54 PM
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| | haha I love vandalized wikipedia pages...if they're done well.  | 
05-01-2006, 08:57 PM
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05-01-2006, 08:57 PM
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| | | apparently the article about cheese used to be vandalized almost twice a day.
it's become a bit of a problem recently, a lot of political figures alter their entries to remove mentions of scandals. Some senators was edited to remove mention of a scandal 4 times in one week, each time the ip address coming from the white house apparently (or something like that) they have to lock a lot of political articles now.
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05-01-2006, 11:02 PM
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| | | the entry is filed under: Categories: Pages needing expert attention | Accuracy disputes | Literary genres | Literature | Postmodern literature
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05-01-2006, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by alpha zygote the entry is filed under: Categories: Pages needing expert attention | Accuracy disputes | Literary genres | Literature | Postmodern literature | Under the "disputes" categories there are some pretty interesting articles. Like one about sexual sneezing fetishes. Didn't know those existed... | 
05-01-2006, 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Test Meat haha I love vandalized wikipedia pages...if they're done well.  | hahahaha me too!
There's a reason things like Uncyclopedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica exist. | 
05-02-2006, 01:36 AM
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Originally Posted by emily34695 Under the "disputes" categories there are some pretty interesting articles. Like one about sexual sneezing fetishes. Didn't know those existed... | wow i better be careful.
i was at the zoo once at the baboon exhibit. one of the females made this sharp coughing sound, and then the dominant male of the troop promptly mounted her and started copulating right there in front of about twenty onlooking humans.
i wonder if sneezing has the same power.
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05-02-2006, 02:35 AM
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| | | i actually own this book. the velvet cover edition just FYI
History of Shit
by Dominique Laporte, (MIT Press, 160 pp., $20)
Of all of the various histories of excrement available for summer reading, History of Shit is perhaps the shortest and most enjoyable. The academic background of its author, Dominique Laporte (he has been compared to Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard), also recommends this book to high-school history teachers, who should consider adding it to their advanced students' summer reading lists.
Originally published in 1978 and recently reprinted by MIT Press with a beautiful, black velvet-bound cover, History of Shit is representative of a '70s strain of experimental French writing that attempted to mesh theory, politics, sexuality and humor. Laporte begins with a strange confluence of events: The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterets, issued in August 1539, which mandated that, henceforth, all civil documents would be administered in "the maternal French," thus cleansing it of all foreign influence (like Latin phrases); and the Royal Edict in November of that same year, which decreed the private management of waste--"to each his own shit." The city of Paris, the edict declared, "is so filthy and glutted with mud, animal excrement, rubble and other offals that one and all have seen fit to leave heaped before their doors, against all reason as well as against the ordinances of our predecessors, that it provokes great horror and greater displeasure in all valiant persons of substance."
"According to Jacques Lacan, humans distinguish themselves from animals the moment shit becomes for them an embarrassing leftover, a source of shame, something to be secretly disposed of," says Slavoj Zizek in a review of the book. "As such, shit casts its shadow even at the most sublime moments of human experience." According to the book's translators, Laporte takes his cues from Lacan, and debunks "all humanist mythology about the grandeur of civilization," suggesting instead that "the management of human waste is crucial to our identities as modern individuals--including the organization of the the city, the rise of the nation-state, the development of capitalism," and, of course--returning to the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterts--"the mandate for clean and proper language."
The one caveat to this otherwise unqualified recommendation might be that this MIT edition is an English translation, and les histoires de merde, naturellement, should be read in their original French.
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from the top of this lonesome hill
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from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
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05-02-2006, 02:43 AM
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| | | sounds hilarious.
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05-02-2006, 02:48 AM
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| | | for my birthday one year i got a research book about bodily fluids. it was interesting, but it got kind of clinical and sort of boring. i was surprised that boogers, eye gunk and toe jam were comprised mostly of yeast. | 
05-02-2006, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by dirtyplotte The one caveat to this otherwise unqualified recommendation might be that this MIT edition is an English translation, and les histoires de merde, naturellement, should be read in their original French. | Nice. "Les Histoires de Merde" almost sounds elegant.  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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