Whut?

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I get linked by metafandom and end up with this in my in-box (unsigned):

Via metafandom - too lazy to login, sorry

To me, "acafan" is associated with "fans who follow Marxist Critical Theory and label fans who follow Enlightenment Scientific Theory as 'anti-intellectual' and 'privileged'".

The following are quotes from Carl Freedman “Science Fiction and Critical Theory” _Science Fiction Studies_, Volume 14 (1987):

"Such speculation, and the concomitant “transformative activity associated with critical thinking” of which Horkheimer writes, is the telos of critical theory: the elaborate and powerful demystifying apparatus of Marxist (and Freudian) thought exist, ultimately to clear space upon which positive alternatives to the existent can be constructed."

"But the conservatism of canon-formation, whose first and most decisively conservative phase is to separate the literary from the non-literary, is, if to some degree necessary, also something which critical theory must be wary and skeptical of. The procedure is intrinsically repressive, and, given the inevitable hegemony of pre-critical thought in class society, the repressions involved are by no means unselective."

And there are just pages and pages of "let's discredit U.S. values and extol the European Marxist theories as superior" by this and other academically trained critics.

You know what happens when you just read Infinite Jest and maybe read/hear some DFW essays way too many times and then someone sends you this? It's like I feel my face trying to laugh and cringe at the same time.