File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_2000/bourdieu.0008, message 115


Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:03:49 +0100
From: "karl.maton" <karl.maton-AT-pop.ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple Postings


>
> That's a different matter all together -- and what one suspected was the real
> source of dissatisfaction all along: not the quantity but the quality or the
> content and point of view. If the musings are inconsequential, you can always do
> us the favour of demonstrating their inconsequentiality; if you think them
> insubstantial, it's up to you to demonstrate greater substance. May others look
> forward to reading your solid contributions in future, as I phase myself out of
> a list that paradoxically seems to be given over more and more to the kind of
> arid scholasticism Bourdieu castigates so very effectively. The smugness and
> pomposity of your "leave the list for more substantial issues and responses" all
> of a sudden leaves me a strong distaste for the list. Leave it I will.

Without wishing to reproduce the very thing I raised as a problem .... Whatever
anyone else says, my 'beef', as they say, was not at all with content quality or
point of view.  Believe me, it's GREAT that there are discussions on the list,
rather than just the typical requests for references one finds elsewhere.  So long
may debate and discussion continue.  All I wanted to raise (and I did so in a bad
mood, so probably without as much tact as I would have done) was a totally
different question ... that of replying to one posting with five separate emails.
That was all.

If that was reduced, then I'd be beefless.  And as for other who criticise the
content ... they can always delete the single email within which it is contained.
Or take issue with it.

CC to Simon in case you've left
(Aren't you supposed to be at the coast?)

With best wishes,

Karl

Karl Maton
School of Education, University of Cambridge

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the imagination
Keats


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