At 01:35 PM 1/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Yea Chuck,
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>Structuralism through post-struc. seems to have some validity as a theory
of academe, a self-awareness of academe, where discourse reigns etc.
Academe is part of social reality though, like k was telling me a while
ago. It is a front in the overall class struggle. The radical reform
movement of the 60's and 70's got a big push from the Profs.
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>Charles Brown
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>>>> Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> 01/28 11:46 AM >>>
>In any case, so I was reading the thread on teaching and trying to
>locate it in some Marxist lexicon and thought you know that's were
>Butler's been. She's been in academia. She is writing about all the
>obscure power games that go on there, just like Foucault. I mean
>nobody who has been on the business end of a wheelbarrow would write
>shit like that about power or the body.
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>So, I painted a picture of the academy from the outside. Glad you
>enjoyed it.
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>Chuck
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