From: SFELMA-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:30:17 -0400
Subject: Re: re(con)struct...


houses several folks who would like to criticize, but don't.  I think this
> is great news, and my general mention of it should empower/embolden other
> possible lurkers, either to communicate off-list--- or better, to 
> recognize that there are others out there, and why not do a few postings of
> auto-critique?  I believe that such would be good for the list's health, 
> and for the progress of feminism, French or other.

the pitfall of criticizing any critical/theoretical community is that it
often turns into an excuse not to read the texts(within that commuity)
seriously or closely.  We have all come acorss this type of complaint before
(with French Feminism,  and let us not forget about the rage against yale
deconstrcution in the past) :  "it's all in-house.  They're all just echoing
[take you pick here ... Cixious,  Kofman,  Derrida,  Lacan,  De Man]"  Fine.
But let's try not confuse this kind of complaints (about the closure of a
community,  about the orthodox Lacanians or DeManians) with any actual
critique of Lacan and De Man.  Prior to any meaningful critique there has to
be rigourous reading of the text in question.  Everything is just "politics".