From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gis.net>
Subject: Re: BHA: Neglect of Bhaskar (Marx?)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:01:58 -0400


Hi Colin--

> I don't think my argument re aesthetics rests on any concept of them
> getting it right. Not least because I don't find Armani suits that
> aesthetically pleasing. The point is that they do seem to appeal to
> aesthetics, and in fact, insofar as they are content to let inquiry rest
at
> the level of the appearances that's all they can appeal.

I understand what you're getting at; perhaps it's just "aesthetics" doesn't
seem to me to really be the right word.  Maybe "style," which is a related
but still somewhat different concept.

>                The point is that
> they play the market game and attempt to sell themslelves via various
forms
> of marketing, whereas CR wants to critique the market, rather than utilise
> it.

On the other hand, as I think we're both saying, CR doesn't have any choice
about *being* in a market, so it would be a good thing if we were more
realistic [sic!] about the need to operate more effectively within it.
Being on the moral high ground only gets one so far!

Mervyn is of course right that we also need to develop our own rhetoric, one
founded on the way CR thinks about the world.  We already walk the walk, now
we have to figure out how to talk the talk!

Cheers, T.

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Tobin Nellhaus
nellhaus-AT-mail.com
"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce




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