File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/97-04-15.135, message 1


Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:57:36 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: M-TH: Re: M-I: Grammatical Clique/Bourgeois Populism


Brian M Ganter wrote:

>Therefore we declare to this philosophically bankrupt left: stop whining
>and start reading!! Learn to read CONCEPTUALLY--not the
>New York Times or the Left Business Review

*Observer*, please.

>but learn to read philosophy.
>Learn to read.

Hey, comrade, I actually do read the stuff. I've read Derrida, and
Deleuze/Guattari, Foucault, Lacan, Zizek, Butler - the whole damn gang. And
you know what? I think their styles are one of their problems. That style
is a sign of self-referentiality, arrogance, artifice, and even a little
fraudulence in the cases of D/G, Lacan, and late Derrida. How curious that
you seem to become what you criticize, Oh Revolutinists of Buffalo!


Doug

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