From: "kent strock" <sigmund5-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: comprendre Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:52:42 PST simon, asking questions is not discrediting B. when they are asked in good faith or worship and if it matters I agree with you totally. As for dennis... data schamta..we are swamped with data from both the academia end and mass media...which is actually indinguigable...psychology has been ruined by statistics whose object,which ignores the social, looks for some invariant or something to publish. B's contribution is not the minutia of statistics but a larger project which some fail to recognize and as B. says displays itself as ressentment or "envy". if Bourdieu were to be read or remembered as stat. guy that would be horrible.....somebody needs to read some philosophy >From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-oregon.uoregon.edu> >Reply-To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Subject: Re: comprendre >Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 17:14:02 -0800 (PST) > >On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Simon Beesley wrote: > > > I am not, of course, trying to discredit Bourdieu. It's just that the > > performative (or gestural) use of statistics, charts, etc. -- the most > > conspicuous symptom of physics envy -- in academic psychology (cognitive > > science as much as its predecessor) has long been a source of amusement >and > > derision to people (like myself) outside Academia. > >No, not amusement and derision -- repressed *envy* is more like it. Data >is information is power in late capitalism. Isn't that why US >mass-culture, particularly the sci-fi narratives, are chock full of >imaginary computing machines (Spock, Data, empathic Borg, etc.)? > >-- Dennis > > >********************************************************************** >Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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