To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: cow-AT-aber.ac.uk (Colin Wight)
Subject: Re: BHA: Another pomo gem
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:22:05 +0100


Sorry about this folks but I just had to share this latest gem with you. I know some of you might think this is all a bit boring but get this one.

My pomo writer argues (comments in brackets are mine):

"Subjecting the agent-structure problematique (why can't she just use problem, what is the infatuation with Paris?) to a poststructuralist gaze enables us to push furth the undecidability issue already raised by the literature itself. (she totally misses the fact that RB says that, in his opinion, no theoretical or philosophical solution to this problem will be forthcoming) Despite the failures of the proposed solutions that I have discussed above, there are important openings that can be further pursued. (OK, so we are going to pursue openings, good I am all for this) I do not claim to be able to go beyond the paradoxes encountered by theorists of the agent-structure problematique (Paris again, and didn't she just say she was going to pursue openings, that is go further..). Nor do I believe it is possible to do so. (So, she doesn't believe it is possible to do so, but then goes on) I do, however, claim that it is possible to press these paradoxes further than they have been by IR theorists. (doesn't this directly contradict the earlier claim that it is not possible to go beyond these paradoxes?)

Thanks for listening.


I promise no more.




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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Tel: (01970) 621769

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