From: "Torgeir Fjeld" <tor-AT-macnet.co.za>
Subject: SV: request
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:15:55 +0100


>On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Jon Beasley-Murray wrote:
>> or the good teacher/mentor ("listen my child, read this book and
>> someday you will be as wise as I, your doors of perception opened") in the
>> way that Ania seems to want to interpellate us, yes...  here's my bid to
>> be the keeper of the key to join the Society of Knowers:
>
>Ania Lian wrote:
>my humble reading of Bourdieu tells me that to be a keeper is not enough
>to hold a key: people must believe that you do hold it. It seems to me
>that before the post is granted to you, you need to do a bit of work in
>order to make us believe your powers. 
>
Indeed, or Foucault, for that matter. Is this a debate about whether the list is a field of restricted production, and whether there should be some rules of behaviour that should apply to all participants? I don't know much about Bourdieu's approach to theater, but then there's always the delete key, on the top right corner of my keyboard. 

Torgeir

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