Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:07:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J.M. Adams" <ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: [postanarchism] Re: Review of Graeber - Fragments of an Anarchist  Anthropology



Well I am not sure where you go to school, maybe you
live in some kind of postie utopia or something but in
almost every university that I am aware of, at least
in the social sciences (from anthropology to political
science) it is certainly not "a kind of cheap
simplistic
Foucauldianism [that]_is_ the reigning orthodoxy of
the academy right now", but rather it is Rational
Choice Theory and other such positivist, neoliberal,
statist, capitalist traditions that rule supreme - the
postie  types are an underfunded, maligned minority
almost everywhere, except for a few oases like Santa
Cruz, Victoria, Honolulu etc., and even there they are
constantly under pressure from the reigning neoliberal
orthodoxy to tow the official lines of the various
disciplines - its true that the rapidly aging Marxist
set of professors is also maligned and under pressure
to conform to the rationalized 21st century university
but  its also true  that their approach seems less and
less radical in the face of all the newer work that
has come out since  the Sixties, most of which is far
more anarchistic in approach - but my point here is
that if you really think "Foucauldianism" is reigning
supreme in the academy, you are living in a world that
Lynne Cheney and her comrades would love to prove is
actually the case, when in fact it certainly is not...

Jason



===="What war is not a private affair, and, inversely, what wound is not a war that comes from society as whole?"

- Gilles Deleuze, Logique du Sens (1969)


		
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