HAIR CLUB FOR MEN VS POSTMODERN FICTION AND CRITICISM

HAIR CLUB FOR MEN                      POSTMODERN FICTION 
                                       AND CRITICISM 
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Whether wet right out of the           Post-structuralist thought
shower, or blow-dried, it              feels about as natural as
looks and feels natural, just          circumcising(or            
like a part of you.                    mastectomizing oneself(or  
                                       with a rusty can.
                                                                  
                      
   

"Hair Club's new polyfuse              Derrida will often
coin method literally fuses            new words<portmanteau>,    
top-quality human hair                 "pharmakon", "differance" 
to your own hair."                     when the old ones aren't   
                                       doing what he wants them to. 
                                       This is a characteristic   
                                       Derrida move and is        
                                       certainly nothing woth     
                                       losing hair over.  

POSTMODERN FICTION                     HAIR CLUB FOR MEN
AND CRITICISM
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Feminists have borrowed from post-     "Even when you feel it, feel
structuralism the conviction that       around the perimeter of
reality is inherently unstable and      your head, you really the
complementary claim that                cannot feel anything in
language offers the only partial        your hair." 
truth of it that we may hope to
know--and they have expanded the
attack on logocentrism into an
attack on "phallocentrism".  Thus
the illusion that the human mind can
identify and understand an
independent reality becomes a
specifically male pretension to
intellectual domination, which must
inevitably end in the
marginalization and obliteration
of Woman, and all Western thought
becomes inherently "phallocentric".
One also notices in many of
Derrida's writings that he will use
what he writes in the margins to
comment on the body.
 
Derrida will often use a word and      That guy from "Eraserhead"
immediately cross it out to achieve    had really bitchin' hair.
desired effect, a technique he 
calls "sous rasure", meaning
'under erasure'
 
HAIR CLUB FOR MEN                      POSTMODERN FICTION 
                                       AND CRITICISM 
------------------                     -----------------------"It
really gave me more ways to        Deconstruction is very be able
to do my hair, and I can do       fashionable. Especially  it in
more of a nineties fashion."        in France<snicker, snicker>,  
                                      and at Yale<double snicker>.

A new healthy head of hair can         Postmodernism can
enew confidence and improve self-      dash what little
esteem.  It may also bring out the     self-esteem you may
best of who you are.                   have to rubble, as
                                       you find yourself          
                                       struggling to grasp the    
                                       concept of the 'trace'.  
Make sure you call Hair Club's         The Tel Quel group
toll-free number to receive            has no 800 number 
their new brochure<800-274-            but, to be fair, 
4133>.  It's loaded with               you can usually find     
information so you can make            a post-modernist on most the
right choice for yourself.             any 900 line.
And by the way, Sy is not
only the hair club president, he's
also a client.
 
Sy Sperling boasts a lovely,           Foucault was bald. 
full head of hair.
 
A nice head of hair can                The writers, of the
add character.                         so-called 'nouveau
                                       roman', or 'new novel'     
                                       (Robbes-Grillet et al) pride 
                                       themselves on eschewing    
                                       traditional devices of     
                                       narrative, such as plot,   
                                       setting and characters.  

One last time then:
 
This is your brain:
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sex sex sex sex sex  
 
This is your brain on the post-modern novel:
 
          pain                      fin-de-siecle angst
          alienation                                    huh?      
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