#its cultural semantics by martin jay!#picked it up along w a bunch of other shit at a book sale on campus cuz my friend dragged me to it n i wanted to buy at least something
Found it! And oh yeah, I was more-or-less right, it's that one fight. Not so much about whether people are going to have theories, but of what kind of humanities or social sciences text is considered to be the most interesting and/or sophisticated: something that focuses, mostly, on the subjects we study, something practical--or something that tries to suss out some sort of deep underlying structure while not necessarily referring to a particular problem one is trying to solve.
There's always a bit of a pendulum going on between a) "oh my god, who gives a fuck about your constructions and daydreams, can you actually tell us something about the real world" and b) "can you do anything except blindly retell things that have happened and actually figure out what they were about on more than a surface level". And you're right: it's kind of hilarious, and mostly a reaction to whatever the newest generation had had to do without wanting to. But realizing which phase of the pendulum you're in will save you a lot of grief when writing a thesis, because it means you won't spend like 2 years fighting your advisors on "why the fuck do I need so much theory, I've got a practically-oriented work" or, conversely, "can you please stop insisting I get more materials, that's not what I'm going for here".
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