Stephen Cullenberg wrote:
>While the book deals mainly with economics, folks might also be
>interested in another event where many people broadly influenced by
>postmodernism (and many who are not) will be coming together to
>discuss and debate Marxism. The Marxism 2000 conference sponsored
>by Rethinking Marxism will be held at the University of
>Massachusetts, Amherst from September 21-24.
The last RM conference, in 1996, was quite fine, and it was the event
that made me rethink my naive, kneejerk antipostmodernism -
specifically Judith Butler's plenary talk, which was eventually
published as "Merely Cultural." I know this essay irritates lots of
PEN-Lers, but it irritated me too on first hearing. But when I read
it several months later in manuscript, I realized she really had a
point. And the irritation was really a symptom that she was onto
something.
Looking forward to this conference in a few weeks.
Doug
