Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 23:16:36 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.apc.org> Subject: Re: M-TH: Left conservatism? You're most eloquent here, Rob. Just some footnotes .... At 02:53 PM 2/27/98 +1100, Rob Schaap wrote: >>Butler conceded that Pollitt and Ehrenreich don't deserve to be >>characterized as conservatives but described a "new orthodoxy" of socially >>conservative Marxists who want to revive an "anachronistic materialism" as >>a tactic for marginalizing feminist, queer and racial justice politics. If this is the Judith Butler I remember, she is an intellectual fraud and elitist par excellence, a paradigmatic specimen of homo academicus, at home in their world like no other. That she would lie like this is very revealing. >Pomos are the human manifestation of what Jameson calls the cultural logic >of late capitalism. Fashionable emptinesses without history or purpose - >all exchange value and no use value. Smug self-referential pastiches of >decontextualised conundra regurgitated playfully as unreflective dogma. >Blah, spit, moan ... What poetry! --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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