OK, Dennis, this is at least the second time you've drawn Ms Butler as
an epistemological Magellan not yet arrived back to accolades in Spain,
so why not enlighten us further by concretely parsing the thicket?
valis
> Universal communicability is not, as Adorno put it, a criterion of
> truth; multinational capitalism is without question the most complicated,
> thorniest, damnably confusing society the human race has ever experienced.
> We don't expect the natural scientists to be instantly understandeable, do
> we? So why should social scientists and intellectuals be any different? Or
> is it just that we've all been conditioned by the system to denigrate any
> attempt at thinking for ourselves -- men in white suits building bombs,
> that's fine, but how dare heretics stop and think about the
> military-industrial complex, etc. It may seem like jargon, but it's
> really specialization: Butler is talking about some extremely complicated
> ideas involving identity, the capitalist subject, the consumer culture,
> gender ideologies etc.
