here, here to Kelley. i'm no theoryhead, just a dumb journalist, but...what's also so silly and frustrating about the anti-Butler whining is that, to listen to it you'd think that discourse was some sort of limited resource. hello, this is a LISTSERV! We got nothing BUT discourse!! I personally think Butler is relevant to the left for reasons Doug and others have said better, but if you people have something to discuss that is so urgently relevant to the revolution, that is being actively EXCLUDED by the Butler discussion...i for one would love to know what it is.
once had an ex-boyfriend who told me reading *Lenin* was a waste of time in which I could be more Practically engaged in Activism. so, you know...