From: ask-AT-unlinfo.unl.edu (alpana knippling)
Subject: Re: postcolonialiam and capitalism
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 11:56:31 -0500 (CDT)


I find Rakesh's queries/concerns--Derrideanisms as expressions of the 
motions of capital, etc.--intriguing, although I don't know the second
Marxist he quoted and know of Ahmad's critique of poststructuralist 
theory somewhat. On this list, many months ago, there was heated 
discussion of Ahmad, with some people thinking he was right on while 
others thought his work shallow and not well thought out when it came 
to (arguably) the most sophisticated poco theorists, Spivak and 
Bhabha. I belonged to the latter group and still think Ahmad took pot 
shots at theory w/o studying it for the kinds of interventions it 
sought to make in the history of philosophy and culture. To say that 
Derrida's ideas are complicit w/ the production of capitalism is only 
to admit the structures w/in which these ideas circulate and gain 
currency constitute us yet also simultaneously offer the grounds on 
which we may critique them. Or am I misreading Ahmad's gist?
Alpana Knippling
ask-AT-unlinfo.unl.edu



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