Talk:Doreen Massey (geographer)
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[edit] Why yet another obscure geographer?
...more "puff"?
No, she is very famous to anyone who does a bit of modern geopolitics...I heard about her in a lecture, for instance.Zigzig20s 23:04, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
El zalamero (the phantom sycophant) strikes again... What is it with you geographers? Why do you subscribe to 'fame' in this star-struck manner? ('Guess whom I just saw? It was - hold it - Michael Watts/David Harvey/Derek Gregory wandering down our corridor, sheathed in an aura of light') Does the discipline actually suffer from a mass inferiority complex ('we have famous people, we really do, we really really do'), and is critical endeavour as a result completely absent from its ranks? 29.12.06
The attempt to blank this page has been reversed, and the talk section restored. Oh dear, zigzalamero, trying to censor a critical observation made by someone else is what dictators do when they cannot answer criticism. The issue here is quite simple: academic geographers appear to be the object of a promotional campaign via wikipedia, a campaign to which you are contributing. Why?
- They are prominent intellectual figures putting forward interesting, challenging contentions and therefore contributing to the history of ideas...something seemingly 'obscure' to you - perhaps you can learn and whittle away at your ignorance of those contentions? Zigzig20s 18:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Not just sycophantic but incoherent as well. This confirms the view that the apparent erudition of a senior academic geographer labelled a ‘prominent intellectual figure’ to fawning subordinates who post ‘achievements’ on wikipedia is an effect less of the intellectual stature of the senior academic geographer concerned and more of the ignorance on the part of the fan/client. Rather than go around acting like one of the latter, and posting adverts (or puffs), why not get a life? 6th February 2007
- Wrong assumption. Zigzig20s 08:30, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
No, right assumption. You continue to avoid the issue, zigzalamero, which is why you go around posting adverts for people you erroneously classify as ‘prominent intellectual figures’ [sic]. I suspect you really have no idea who a ‘prominent intellectual figure’ might be, let alone what constitutes a ‘contribution to the history of ideas’. Much rather, it seems to be a case of a sad person who needs to indulge in a classic form of displacement: that is, fawning hero-worship by someone who doesn’t have a life of his/her own. In short, something akin to a geography groupie who serves what are actually very ordinary senior academic geographers much the same way as groupies serve rock stars: making them feel good about themselves. Writing puffs says more about the person who composes and curates such nonsense than about the ‘prominent intellectual figure’ whose ‘reputation’ they attempt to inflate. So, in addition to your BAPPP, you are now a GG (geography groupie). Many congratulations on these awards. 8th February 2007.
