I've been floundering around for twenty years or so trying to work out a
program -- not a vision, not a theoretical critique but a program. Of
course a program needs to be grounded theoretically (here) and it needs to
project a vision of where its going (there). One of the things that has
encouraged me in this undertaking is that I often encounter expressions of
sheer incomprehension (from knowledgeable people) just at the moments when
I feel I have achieved greatest lucidity. That suggests to me that the
behind our backedness of it all is itself systemic, not arbitrary.
Tom,
I'd like to hear just how you consider systemic in this case to be non-arbitrary. Since it ain't necessarily so.
cheers,
Joanna
