>I don't know what position JB takes on strikes. Does anyone? Dick
Walker,
>the fine Marxist geographer at Berkeley, had nothing but good things to
say
>about her, including her activism.
I don't know about her activism, but here's a tidbit Lou will like: Stanford's been courting her for quite some time, to the tune of something like a $300,000 salary (am I bad for reporting this? yikes). This according to a friend who attends Stanford. My friend says it's probably not much less at Berkeley. Anyone know?
Still, I think she's pretty damn smart, and her writings have proved fruitful for me (though there is the question of my intelligence I suppose). The chapter on Hegel and the stuff on Neitzsche's Bad Conscience have been most productive for me, and I look forward to the future discussion.
If one is interested in seeing the oppressed, abjected, marginalized rising up, why doesn't one ask why they don't, consider the agency of the subject, the political constitution of subjectivity etc, by engaging with some writing rather than dismissing someone's work as "pomo"? As far as pomo goes, well I just read what interests me and what seems useful, in ongoing work. Marx is there as is Butler, and others.
Anyway, off the soapbox. It's a slow day at the temp job.
-Alec
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