Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 17:06:00 -0500 From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan) Subject: Re: SERIOUS SOKAL/Ross, Aronowitz, and postmarxism... Keith, first of all, the quote you attributed to me was actually made by Ralph Dumain. Second, it is of course true that postmodernism/postmarxism/modern academic "interdisciplinarism" are complex and multifarious phenomena. However, that does not mean there is not a possibility of moving beyond the sterile individual-by-individual critique and isolating broad general logical or methodological flaws. The most obvious one is the writing style, which I do not consider to be trivial at all; in fact, people who spend their academic careers pulling out political meanings through such convoluted mechanisms as "interrogating the absences" should hardly squawk at questioning the political implications of the unnecessarily bloated, turgid, incomprehensible, and usually incoherent prose of nearly all of this stuff. This is just the starting point. There is much more that can be said, even though these trends try to resist any possibility of critique by refusing to define themselves. Rahul --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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