Critical studies is pseudo-scholarship, or what I like to call "scholarshit." Most if not all citations in this academic grift niche are from the same circle of retards. There is an industry, pointed out decades ago by Camille Paglia, in her great essay "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders": a hermetic circle of critical studies citations in papers used exclusively to gain tenure and to present at schmoozing conferences like the MLA, not to add anything new or even interesting to their batshit crazy, unreadable literature, since they make the same arguments with the same sources over and over again, with small permutations.
Critical studies is pseudo-scholarship, or what I like to call "scholarshit." Most if not all citations in this academic grift niche are from the same circle of retards. There is an industry, pointed out decades ago by Camille Paglia, in her great essay "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders": a hermetic circle of critical studies citations in papers used exclusively to gain tenure and to present at schmoozing conferences like the MLA, not to add anything new or even interesting to their batshit crazy, unreadable literature, since they make the same arguments with the same sources over and over again, with small permutations.