A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Frankfurt School

I saw Judith Butler give a lecture last night. When somebody's cell phone went off in the middle of her talk, she joked that the pizza delivery man had gotten lost and was calling her for directions (hasn't mapquest taken care of that problem?) Nobody laughed. So then, taking a different tack, she declared that such interruptions were part of the "Benjaminian aura," and everyone went wild. Evidently she stoops to conquer.

Ah, academia.