Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 10:33:45 -0600 (CST)
From: Daniel Frederick Vukovich <vukovich-AT-students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: General Question



I, for one, simply cannot abide the sexism and male-adolescence going on 
here, within Domain's "earthy subtlety" and others's silence.

Please unsubscribe this delicate soul

Thanks






On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Ralph Dumain wrote:

> Too bad the subtlety of my take on "special insight" has escaped
> the delicate souls taken aback by my "acting out."  Southerners
> don't appreciate rude behavior?  What delicious irony.  Hesh my
> mouth or soap a rope.  At least Kenneth MacKendrick began with the
> proper spirit.
> 
> Doug did not get all of his facts straight, alas.  I never called
> him a shithead.   I did refer to the New York left collectively as
> a collection of shitheads, and I stand by my generalization.  I
> did not single out Doug for opprobrium, and though he may have
> inferred his own shitheadedness by reasoning from genus to species
> (if not genius to special insight), I did not intend to assert
> that Doug is any more shitheaded than the rest.  Whether or not
> Doug is more shitheaded depends on the accuracy of his statements,
> public and private, the degree of his own gratuitous
> mean-spiritedness, and his own personal ethics, esp. in
> relationship to me and mine.
> 
> Somebody else is worried about the attitude the Frankfurters face.
> Would I subscribe if I hated the Frankfurters?  I hate only the
> French.  The Frankfurters before Habermouth were not
> discourse-masturbators.  The golden thread of modern
> self-consciousness is Hegelian Marxism.  Adorno was a square on
> jazz, but he masterfully proctologized Kierkegaard and Heidegger.
> One of my ambitions is to keep all of Hegelian Marxism going --
> Lukacs, the Franks, C.L.R. James, and the rest -- so that
> lebensphilosophie, hermeneutics, and existentialism -- as well as
> discourse-masturbation -- can be forever expunged from the earth.
> Why Heidegger, and not Marx?   Why Nietzsche, and not Marx?
> Irigaray this, bitch!
>