Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:55:49 -0700
Subject: Re: theory and marx


At 03:33 AM 8/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
>and secondly i'd like to know just how poco, post-structuralist, or
>post-modern
>theory etc. has helped their practice. this is not a rhetorical or facetious
>question. i'm just mystified as to how you go about applying these bodies of
>theory to solving the problems of every day life.......... and by the way
>the Manifesto is the highest form of theory, that which actually guides
>practice.

As an activist/academic, I find that the theory's been extremely useful in 
thinking about
my activism's representational strategies, which are immensely important when
trying to change minds and inspire critical thinking. Also, I suppose this 
question
hangs on the larger question of what counts as "activism."

Mimi Nguyen 


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