Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 11:31:53 -0500
From: Mary Murphy&Salstrand <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Post-modern, Post-Marxist etc. comments on philosophy and culture


hugh bone wrote:
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> 
I posted this item because of its British context (Birmingham
University)references to French Continental Philsophes
and the future of Marxism or whatever substitute. Sprawling incoherence
it may be, but that, we shall never escape.
 
hugh -

don't worry, I found it interesting. It got me thinking about academia
and the media as various modes of legitimation.  The movie 1942 is a
case in point.  Why bother to publically fund a history department when
Hollywood can do the job and make money to boot!

You tempted me to go out and rent Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear.

It sounds even more historical than 1942 (If that's possible.)