The TinkeriUniverse, 25 Haz 2001 - 324 sayfa The Tinker is a proposal to establish and an invitation to join an order of itinerant house guests, charmed Tinkers who apprentice domiciles in order to conserve residential space and energy and explore human dependency requirements (people, machines, substances) so as to understand, motivate and improve nuclear family child-rearing and geriatric care. Dr. Riley, a college English professor, believes that intellectual rhetoric and academic charisma can no longer compete for youthful regard with electro-chemical stimulants, and that any American living room is more hospitable and educational than any classroom. Married with children, he feels that masculine, WASP individualism past the age Christ dies in us is elitist, hegemonic, anhedonic and ecologically destructive. Only literate and/or "loving" married couples can display for youthful guests the equality, forbearance and sporting language required for the progress of gender parity and democratic justice, and for the preservation of our human families and planet. |
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Broadside | ix |
The Life of Riley | xxix |
Read Repair Recreate | xlviii |
Introduction | 3 |
The Tinker as Polish Joke | 16 |
The Media | 29 |
The Tinker as Roland Barthes | 42 |
The Reading Guest | 61 |
The Art of Latency | 136 |
Mutiny From the Bounty | 145 |
Humanism | 151 |
The Tinker as Phillip Reiff | 160 |
The Tinker as Literary Hero | 167 |
Rebellion and Consolation | 180 |
What Men Must Let the Women Do | 189 |
Ultimate Macho | 195 |
Transference Idealism | 87 |
Love and the Tinker | 96 |
Family Speech | 104 |
The Love Mechanism | 111 |
The Tinker as Professional | 127 |
Backfire | 216 |
Taboo and Nonviolence | 232 |
The Mask of Literacy | 244 |
The Tinker as Zealot | 255 |
About the Author | 265 |
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