File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_2000/bourdieu.0008, message 101


From: "kent strock" <sigmund5-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Habitus
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:16:27 GMT





ania wrote,

>Why get hung up on a side-comment I made about Epstein? But if this is all
>you can see, then I can only add: what is the goal of Epstein's ? To help
>change? But who is the enemy, malaria or idiocy of our current systems?
>Fight the idiocy I would say as it is more dangerous than the malaria bug
>which we can conquer (or have in fact already).

ania I think you have to ask who is the enemy without recourse to liberal 
scientific truths or epistemological claim.  Simon is correct that nothing 
will be done in time if we run around looking for foundations...but your 
position is untenable given the speed of modern technology (cf virrilo etc) 
I would have to say you both take the side of a certain humanism that I 
think is untenable.  simon's solution while more accurate in the specifics 
is still based on a rational humanism that has already been discreted...and 
yes simon this is where I depart from my "idolotry" as you say of Bourdieu. 
He has an overall liberal idealism, but it is not in the concept of habitus. 
  Call me cynical but Deleuze and Guattari or Baudriard are more on target 
in their linage from benjamin and heidigger in understanding contempory 
science and culture.
habitually yours
kent



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