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At 7:06 PM 11/16/96, Mark Weisbrot wrote:
IMHO, the pomos have made a major positive contribution by
transforming a large part of the humanities' undergraduate curriculum, to
the point where it is now common for freshman comp. courses to question such
"myths" as American democracy, equality of
The Brecht Forum presents
Dialectics in Psychology
a talk by Eli Messinger
Thursday, November 21 at 7:30 pm
Child psychologist Eli Messinger will contrast dialectical
thinking about psychological issues with conventional
linear thinking. Dialectics highlights relational processes,
change that
Doug Henwood writes on pomo:
A theoretical problem: if there is no truth, only provisional constructions
of truth, and if there is no master narrative, but only a polyphony of
local narratives and situated knowledges, than how can you criticize the
official (celebratory) version of history
At 2:57 PM 11/17/96, James Michael Craven wrote:
Gradually
through debate, cross-testing provisional hypotheses and data/data
sources, paradigm/power shifts, old-timers dying etc etc some of the
"constructions of truth" become patently untenable for all but the
totally warped, some become less
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At 2:57 PM 11/17/96, James Michael Craven wrote:
Gradually
through debate, cross-testing provisional
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
This is the trap of "class not race" anti-corporate messages. The same
thing happened in the NAFTA debate where anti-immigrant messages easily
penetrated the movement for fair trade. (Significantly, Nader refused to
condemn Prop 187 as
I would like to think that the traditional left has had as much of an
influence on the academy as the pomos have, but it doesn't seem to be true.
Noam Chomsky, whose critique of pomo I agree with, has had a pretty small
audience for his political writings. Until the recent pamphlets published
It seems a widespread temptation, not a unique feature of post-modernism, to
substitute jargon for thinking. But consider the comic possibilities:
slightly disillusioned, but still bristling ex-Enver Hoxha-ite meets
itinerant PoMo performance art critic of indeterminate gender and the two of
them
Greetings,
Graduate Employees at the University of California system are striking
this week in order to be recognized. They need support from across the
country and they would appreciate messages of solidarity.
If you have a minute to spare please send a message of support to the
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Mark Weisbrot wrote:Chomsky, on the other hand, in order to
write books on politics, has had to pursue a second career of scholarship
A few years ago, we invited Chomsky to Chico. He had to be booked
several years in advance. His costs were high, but he worked from 8 in
the morning till
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