> This "culturalist Left" has become a strawperson. People on this
> list, for example, take seriously the tasks of union organizing and
> political agitation; is there anyone here who thinks that slipping a
> Public Enemy CD into the Discman is a revolutionary act in itself?
> And lots of cult studs are involved in campus anti-sweatshop
> campaigns, local living wage campaigns, and other very real world
> concerns. And the "culturalist Left" label is applied recklessly to
> people other than the practitioners of the politics of gesture or
> style - to people who take race and sex seriously, for example, as
> you seem not to. But last time I checked, race and sex were deeply
> materialist things (and culture itself was embedded in material
> practices and social relations). So instead of throwing around labels
> with the intent to insult or disparage, could you provide some
> example texts, thinkers, or ideas to illustrate your indictment?
>
> Doug
>
I just changed my employer from the US Army Corps of Engineers to the EPA. Does that qualify me as part of the "culturalist Left"? ;-)
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