On second thought, here's a better idea: a whole *family* of m-l sectarians
-- Jed, Jethro, Ellie-may and granma Hoxha -- is accidently granted
tenure-track positions at an ivy league comparative lit department. After
all, this is America, folks. Land of opportunity.
Regards,
Tom Walker
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1996
RELEASED TODAY:
PPI -- The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods advanced 0.4
percent in October, seasonally adjusted. This followed a 0.2 percent
increase in September and a 0.3 percent rise in August. Prices for both
finished energy
FYI, believe that the CPI was up 0.3% but don*t place any great store by
the *reasons* given.
Dave Richardson
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BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1996
RELEASED TODAY:
CPI -- On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U rose 0.3 percent in
October, the same as in September.
At 6:52 PM 11/17/96, Mark Weisbrot wrote:
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
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1996
_A surge in energy and food prices drove up the CPI-U by a seasonally
adjusted 0.3 percent in October, but analysts remain confident inflation is
well under control. The so-called core rate of inflation -- minus volatile
food and energy
Sorry, that last bit got off before I finished my thought.
At 6:52 PM 11/17/96, Mark Weisbrot wrote:
So while it may be true that
Chomsky as an individual has "done more to popularize such critical thinking
in the U.S. than any professor of identity ever has," the same is not true
for the
There is a two-video-cassette series on Manufacturing Consent put out in
1992 by the National Film Board of Canada. It is 120 minutes long. The first
cassette is on thought control and the second on activating dissent.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Speaking of science, pomo, and all that, I have a question for y'all. I'm
working on a piece about the SL Bank Robbery in the 80s, and I ran across
an article by Richard Rorty claiming that academics totally missed the boat
on the SL crisis. Among pomos, I'm pretty sure he's correct; I was
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
Another walk on the wild side. Three epigraphs from Judith Butler's Bodies
that Matter:
"Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings
encapsulated by skin?" - Donna Haraway
Anyone who has any serious knowledge of martial arts should have no trouble
whatsoever with this
At 9:19 AM 11/16/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I refer to my other comment, that the quotes
cited do not deny material reality, but material reality "independent of...
humanity." This is what the quote actually says, and this last clause, not
the *existence* of material reality, is where all the
I hate to sound a down note, but...
I truly admire Chomsky's exhaustive scholarship, moral voice, and
avoidance of unnecessary jargon. But one thing really irritates
me about his articles in Z magazine, my main source of knowledge
about his views (why buy his books when one just barely
Fucking hell, how many times do I have to say this? Of course, reality is
socially constructed, observation affects results, yadda yadda hey, but to
deny there's a physical reality independent of human observation is to
flirt with psychosis.
Doug
Doug, if I understand the above, you're flirting
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Hi folks:
I thought I sent this to the list already but I never got it from PEN-L, so
here it is -- again? FYI.
Blair
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Rethinking Marxism Presents Its Third International Gala Conference:
"POLITICS AND LANGUAGES OF CONTEMPORARY MARXISM"
Hello, all:
I'm going to be incommunicado for a while, so please don't take my
temporary absence as sign of retreat :) or disgust. On the contrary, I
shall miss the ideas and the information.
Hope to see some of you at the RM conference, if not back here before then.
Regards,
Blair
Blair
Nathan Newman wrote:
M. Sawicky wrote:
A class appeal is the best (only?) way to overcome backward views
on race. Otherwise you are reduced to moral preachments. You can
try saying that race divides people to their disadvantage, but that
presumes some larger concept that subsumes
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 as "false"?
Doug
I have no
At 3:02 PM 11/18/96, Mark Weisbrot wrote:
I have no trouble criticizing theories for their effects, without needing
to argue that they are false. Look at NC theory. I can argue compellingly
(my previously brainwashed students all or mostly think so) that NC theory
contributes to a stream of
I thought someone here might be able to help this person.
Cindy Cotter
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I thought someone here might be able to help this person.
Cindy Cotter
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Well, I wasn't going to jump in on this one, but --
Having a very slim knowledge of anthropology, there are some African tribes
that believe that the only reality is fantasy. That magic is reality and
physical reality is a manifestation of magic. Poisonally, I think there may
be some truth
What did the elephant say to the naked man?
"How do you eat with that thing?"
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CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS,
Here is part of the problem with this whole
discussion. There really is a profound mystery about the
nature of reality that none of the contestants in this
discussion can resolve. On the one hand, at the sub-atomic
particle level, we have this ephemeral quantum world where
things
Mark Weisbrot said:
I can't tell you how many times I have heard pomo
scholars assert such things as, e.g., we don't know any more about the
physical universe than we did 5000 years ago. Needless to say, this
undermines their credibility, and the credibility of the academic left in
general,
At 07:19 AM 11/18/96 -0800, you (Doug Henwood) wrote:
I'm not sure about relative influence (pomo v. Noam) but the influence Mark
is talking about here is one of the reasons I'm obsessed with the issue. If
young people experience "radical" thought in the form I've been attacking,
then that's a
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