Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:54:20 +0200 (MET DST)
From: I Hoving <I.Hoving-AT-let.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: your mail



Alas, I do not think it necessary to attack the importance of literary
intellectuals; here in Holland, at least, their importance is nil, and
still decreasing. Government funding is generally reserved for
straightforward empirical research, even within the humanities, and art
departments have to struggle to survive at all. So I'm all for an ongoing
self-critique of the field, but if that book is attacking us, why exactly,
what's the need, and what or who are they champaigning for?

Isabel




Isabel Hoving
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1078 TT Amsterdam
020-6763352/525.3883
fax 020-525.3052
mail i.hoving-AT-let.uva.nl

On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, julian samuel wrote:

> Dear List members:
>
> =09I would like to suggest a wonderful book that was published a few years
> ago. It elegantly attacks the "importance" of literary (CS type)
> intellectuals.
>
> THE THIRD CULTURE, BEYOND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, John Brockman. (1996)
> =09
> =09It is clearly written  (unlike most CS) and there are many interviews with
> thinkers who matter -- Gould,  Dawkins, Goodwin, S Jones, Minsky, Schank,
> Dennett, Penrose, M Rees, Alan Guth, Smolin, Paul  Davis, Murry Gell-Mann
> et cetera.
>
> =09I read these effulgent things in a CS book recently:
>
> =09=93...I want to stress the importance of keeping sight of the second meaning
> in order to assure that our work as producers of knowledge remains useful,
> self-reflexive, critical, true and visionary.=94
>
> This visionary was followed by the following Bhabhaeaque fog job:
>
> =09=93I am specifically concerned with the contemporary tendency across
> several discursive communities to =91culturalize=92 difference and to privilege
> the culturalization of difference.=94
>
> =09=09
>
> Julian
>
>
>
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