@Lady what do you mean by “Weird”?
@aescling unnecessarily hostile and antagonistic about any invocation of it
@aescling typically with little-to-no understanding of what the purpose of it actually is
@Lady tbh idk that i have a good answer to what the purpose of theory is (this is not a dig on theory)
anyway. that is unfortunate
@aescling i would say that the purpose of (critical) theory is to build a (critical) framework for analysing things (that one can do criticism to)
@aescling for a potentially quite loose definition of “meaning”, “embedded in”, and “text”