Retrofitting "Henwood before Butler" (was Re: Force & Truth...)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Nov 4 16:29:14 PST 1999


Catherine Driscoll wrote:


>I don't like this use of 'postmodernism',

I don't either, which is why I put it in quotes. ASCII can't handle an erasure font.


> >I think Jameson is wrong in his essay on culture & finance capital
> >when he takes the apparent immateriality of finance capital at face
> >value; I'm not sure what the implications are for the cultural side
> >of his analysis, but I would emphasize that behind the apparent
> >immateriality of fin K are relations of power and coercion, and that
> >the markets themselves are important institutions of class formation.
>
>So Doug does this criticism of Jameson have any implications for your
>reading of Zizek?

Dunno, should it?

Doug



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