14 November 2011
Accidental poetry
I copied and pasted a quote and this is what came out.
By designating
the cultural as arbitrary, Bourdieu reverses the normal perception of
things, which is that the sacred objects of high culture are such because of some
quality
intrinsic to them. From this essentialist point of view
they deserve their place
and their veneration because of
something about them that is
'real'-they really are
beautiful in the way
that knowledge
is really
true
(and so really
is knowledge). This,
in
fact, Bourdieu argues,
is an illusion.