File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9712, message 176


Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 12:29:47 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Cultural Studies (Was Henry Miller ...)



>> Nor can his argument claim that the selected criteria are "political."
>>
>Again, why not?  So long as the academy, and especially the humanities,
>are dominated by people who think that culture and politics are separable,
>why can't my definition of CS also be called "political", since it
>challenges this  view and any allocations of resources and power based
>upon it??
>
>Have I misunderstood something here?
>
>hh
>
Indeed, hh, if I am following you correctly here, how can it _not_ also be
called political, in that the interpenetration of culture and politics are
a given from within your paradigm?


(I'm still looking, though, for a name for the device of saying of using
the same term and playing on its being readable two ways, however. When its
time to go, its time to go. Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.)




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