Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 11:07:23 -0800 (PST)
From: oconnell-AT-oz.net (Mark O'Connell)
Subject: Re: Play


> I agree that B.
>writes well, but he doesn't write _that_ well. Some passages are poetic,
>resonant, lucid, funny. Other passages are so abstract and dense and elusive
>that I wonder if he himself understands what he is trying to say. B. is
>primarily a philosopher, so that's why it is often abstruse.

More specifically I'd say he's primarily a FRENCH philosopher, and >that's<
why it's often abstruse ;-) . His fascination with words and poetic
siezures sometimes make me think of Sartre.  Like sometimes he gets so
caught up in the art of his discourse that he really shouldn't be writing
philosophy at all, but something else. Maybe it is something else.



> One of the biggest
>B.-industrialists in the English-speaking world, Douglas Kellner, doesn't even
>understand B. and doesn't even like him!

What's a "B.-industrialist" ?


>So let's try to disseminate the ideas more, to re-reformulate them in our own
>words, or, to express our own ideas or art which happen to be influenced by B.
>or others. Let's not write in that academic tone "Foucault says this, Deleuze
>says that, Haraway says that..."

I would certainly appreciate that.


A small question: In an essay about Andy Warhol called "The  Plastic
Inevitable" whenever B talks about the "subject" of a painting/piece he's
not talking about the subject at all (the dog, naked person, soup can
whatever....) but about the artist.  Is this use of the word "subject"
something that someone versed in his thinking would expect or is it a
peculiarity of this essay? Why does he use the word in this unexpected way?

thanks to anyone who takes the time....







>
>Alan Shapiro
>Frankfurt, Germany
>e-mail 100143.1302-AT-compuserve.com
>
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>
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>
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Mark O'Connell
oconnell-AT-oz.net