Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 10:04:52 -0500 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu> Subject: Re: BHA: the book Karl Maton wrote: > At the > present there is much biological importation within the social sciences > (such as this notion of the 'meme'. Hmmmm). Such importation of biology serves only chaos and bad thought, but it should be distinguished from recognition of the *results* of biological and geological science, particularly the long established facts of the long period that intervened between the beginning of life on this planet and the first appearance (just a few minutes ago) of biologically modern humans. I say this because I am currently reading (or at least attempting to read) Judith Butler's *Bodies that Matter*, and her *apparent* presentation of a historical account (present as history) of the emergence of the individual (she says subject) from a matrix of social relations is wholly undercut by her studied refusal to recognize, what might be called her willed ignorance, of the fact that that "matrix of social (she says gendered) relations must itself have a history. That necessity can only be satisfied by a recognition as given the facts of biological and geological investigation. The sciences of biology, geology, and paleontology are much less apt to generate idealist fantasies than is the science of physics. Carrol --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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