Surely part of the point of this piece is to blow apart intellectual posturing about art.
Such words of caution are dismissed by Shahbag protesters as intellectual posturing.
Confronted by the mysteries of liberal academia and the irritants of intellectual posturing, they discover that the brother they considered a weakling was a hero in his own realm, not to mention a prodigious lady killer.
It is Veronique who considers a novel's hero its "star," but that observation ripples out to skewer both Jean-Pierre's vapid intellectual posturing and her own celebrity-addled mind.
Who gives a farthing for any of this, you ask? That's the point, I guess, for in an art world chock full of intellectual posturing and commercialization, such aimless conceptual exercises can seem mildly anarchic.
And there are certainly people out there willing to accept the pretense, who persist in mistaking Mr. LaBute's easy contempt for brave sophistication and his intellectual posturing for insight.
We grow out of our callow intellectual posturing, that self-abasing wallow in guilt and dread and condemnation; we cast aside most of our angst and bullshit, and recalibrate our vision to take in previously unseen shades of grey.
The way to look at the endless theoretical and intellectual posturing of the right is to look at who actually does well when the so-called conservative policies are implemented, and who doesn't.
In 1994, the Standard published a letter signed by 35 of his opponents from the art world – among them John Golding, Eduardo Paolozzi and Rachel Whiteread – accusing him of a "dire mix of sexual and class hypocrisy, intellectual posturing and artistic prejudice".
All of this may have the smell of extreme cleverness but Morpurgo never falls into the trap of empty intellectual posturing masquerading as comedy; this is a show that, while being thought-provoking, never forgets where its next big laugh is coming from.
