Postmodern Cover for Gitlin's 'Yes'

t byfield tbyfield at panix.com
Sun Oct 17 08:26:46 PDT 1999



> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 09:50:48 -0400
> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Postmodern Cover for Gitlin's 'Yes'


> Earnest or ironic, your posts just show that you are not only misinformed
> about the history of Yugoslavia but also are clueless about how Yugoslavia
> (besides Haiti, Somalia, East Timor, etc.) has been used to create a
> climate in which Gitlin's 'Yes' reverbarates among a fairly large number of
> liberals and even those who may be legitimately called leftists. In this
> process, (post)modern culturalist applications of local understandings of
> race & ethnicity to the areas where such understandings obscure, rather
> than clarify, social relations have been part of the problem, not the
> solution.

so you're a pragmatic platonist, is what you're saying.


> The failure of irony is the least of your problem. I simply note here that
> irony is only fine in the hands of those who know how to use it, to make it
> equal to reality.

check out my new .sig:

-

The failure of irony is the least of your problem. I simply note

here that irony is only fine in the hands of those who know how to

use it, to make it equal to reality. - y. furuhashi

do you like it? here's my old one:

- "...curse you, Byfield....Nurse! Time for my bong hit..."

cheers, t



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