Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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