Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:09:22 -0600 (MDT)
From: leslie anne lopez <llopez-AT-unm.edu>
Subject: Re: real topics


On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, robert brown wrote:

> >I agree with your questions on postcolonial strategies.
> >
> 
>         Thanx for the response oscar. i will try and get this discussion of
> anti-neocolonial strategy back on track. 

> and what we do for a living.  As the gatekeepers of a lot useful knowledge
> and ideas left intellectuals can make these resources available to
> oppressed people, who will and do happily figure out what to do and say on
> their own. Thats the best we can do, and if we really did just that it
> would be tremendous. 

Gramsci has a lot to say on this question of the role
> of intellectuals in the workers movement and its not what left
> intellectuals have been self-servingly led to believe by Togliatti and most
> Gramscian academics; but thats definitely another post.

>          Curious how easily my questions got buried in a very "in"
> discussion of subalterns and Spivak. now i know where the popular phrase
> "its academic" comes from!
> 
> cultural revolution now!  bob brown
> 
> "A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer"  Long live the
> fool.
> 

And when the wise man points to the moon, l'idiote looks at the finger.
(Paris 68 graffiti).

So what about those resources, Bob?  You got some over there?  You holding
out on us, Bob?  Mochate with the Gramsci, 'mano.  Lay that Gramsci on us;
I can't get my department to say
his name. 

What are some of those strategies of leading multiple lives, with
oppositional consciousness as Ch. Sandoval has said, or with multiple
masks, as others have said?  How are people pulling this off in their
locale?  I've been interested to see some of the posts for academic
unions, for instance.  Someone last year wrote that she was teaching ESL
at nights while being a professor.  How do those of us who will probably
never get a fulltime full professor, tenured teaching job put these pieces
together?  What happens to one if one actually really wants to teach
adults, as opposed to do the turtleneck and tweed professional circuit?  I
want to know why people go into graduate school. I mean, my rationale for
getting a PhD in anthropology is about as fractured, commodified and
contradictory as they come--I imagine.

Any takers on the question:  how is academia strategic for you?

Leslie





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