the Butler did it

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 23 15:05:06 PST 1998


No doubt many of you have seen this a hundred times already. Judith Butler has won this year's Bad Writing Contest, sponsored by the journal Philosophy and Literature (anyone know anything about this journal). The full story is at <http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily>.

Here's the winning sentence, from her essay "Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time," in Diacritics:

The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood

to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view

of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition,

convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality

into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of

Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical

objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility

of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up

with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of

power.

Doug



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