File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9810, message 25


Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:10:07 EDT
Subject: Re: throw jameson a bone


Any discussion of the Jameson's foreword presumes that The Postmodern
Condition has already been read and understood in its entirety. Rather than
put cart before horse, my horse sense tells me that the discussion of the
foreword should be a pleasure deferred until we have first done the hard work
of reading the text. Then, the wild linkages can occur.

Isn't it one of Lyotard's points that we are too ready to paraphrase and
generalize books and this constitutes a form of injustice to the text done in
the interest of saving time? How can we as a group discuss TPC until we have
read TPC? Jameson can patiently wait.

Finally, I am all for discussing other essays later on, but we also need to
consider that these may not be readily available to all of us, rendering the
discussion of them somewhat more difficult. Suggestions?


 

   

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