Subject: Re: Wacquant on boxing
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 20:07:52 -0500



absolutely strange discussion on a bourdieu list.





Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.org>-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu on 07/13/2001
04:14:53 PM

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Subject:  Re: Wacquant on boxing


Fair enough!  But my question is a valid one.  Intellectuals love
violence--in theory and from a safe distance in most cases--so one must
always be suspicious until one gets the scoop.  The lesson the 20th century
is how millions of people get psychologically primed for fascism.  Blood
sports is one of them, and the intellectuals' fascination with boxing
reveals their own sadomasochistic lust for power and their predisposition
to submit their own intellectual gifts to naked power.  Hence I think you
need to direct your concern over what is inflammatory to the real purveyors
of barbarism.  Academics love getting angry in theory, but when somebody
gets angry for real they shit they pants.

At 04:19 PM 7/13/01 -0400, Elaine Power wrote:
>Please don't grind your personal ax against boxing on Wacquant's back.
Read
>some of his work instead.
>
>Elaine Power

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