Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:02:54 +1000 (EST)
From: Ania Lian <ania-AT-lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Multiple Postings


On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, George Free wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Deborah Kilgore wrote:
> > I think there is a legitimate concern, first for the autonomy of the
> > intellectual field which is being eroded day by day, and then I think
> > academics are seeking to preserve their status as knowers.

Is money threatning or the accountibility procedures at universities that
manage to stuff up the "autonomy" that you value? Is computer or a machine 
at fault ever or WE? Why not confront reality and do some reality checking
about the game that we are all in?

> The orthodox intellectuals sought to preserve the old ways, while the
> modernists strove to reinvent intellectual life in terms adequate for
> the new social and economic situation. The modernists were defeated...

Maybe the line was too fuzy? maybe it is not a fight between the old and
the new? We talk till cow come home but without a prooer analysis, we 
will just engage in a yet another shallow polemic about truly nothing
Ania lian

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