From: LE_FAVE-AT-delphi.com
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 08:41:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: nomad


Quite obviously Judith is right. there is nomadism in every walk and station.
Spinoza, who probably rarely left his study, was nomadic for the wild inter-
play of philosophic sub-disciplines in the ETHICS, the trasgression of entire
disciplines and the structures of his own (very rigorous) methods. Kafka, who hs 
been called 'one of the most brilliant bureaucrats of the century' is nomadic
precisely for being insurance agent by day and bug by night.  And this would 
certiainly suggest that one could be a grad-student, adjuct instructor or juniorprof.
without becomming a conservative appoligist for the system. But doesn't this 
miss that May 68'-anti-...pathos of this original thread.  It seems to me that
the (very excelent) question was: 'what can we do to the academic structure 
to really fuck it up and make us all more nomadic?'  May 68 was not blowing 
holes in the walls and completely abandoning the universities because those 
institutional structures were irrelevant.  the question in your theory group
should not be who is more nomadic undergrads or grads, but rather what are all
these molecular desires?  Abandon your posts! Repent!

ha ha ha

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