Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:48:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Net Criticism 2.0/network extension



On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Ostrow/Kaneda wrote:

> >
> And what do you offer instead ? 

Who said anything about a replacement!

> My point is that you do not have a clue to either the nature of
> the institutions you oppose or how to dismantle and discount them.

The institutional vanguard is very unaccustomed to hearing criticism of
itself -- there are various "mechanisms" that ensure that the acolytes
need never question their increasingly reactionary, "virtuous" and insular
power structures. Ironically, it's this very resistance to self-criticism,
expansive strategies and methods, that ensures that the vanguard will not
be even begin to be effective -- except as some backward, corrupt,
*obstruction* to new social dimension. Cutting their institutional
funding, abolishing tenure, open (sunshine-law) hiring, administrative
salary reviews, publication and acquisition procedures, or dismissing
inept "teaching as praxis positions" would be effective, but with your
intimately superior knowledge, I'm sure that you'll be able to point-out
other methods and clues... assuming that you really _do_ want reform. 



/:b








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