while it isn't necessarily so in theory, the consequence *in practice* of all this fashionable reflexivity is to rationalize powerlessness, as rob schaap argued so eloquently on the pulp culture list (i think): we can't know anything, so we can't do anything except argue about all the things we don't know.
but of course i could be wrong. doug et al.--tell me how we can take butler and zizek to the people!