Well, since you ask, I don't condone Jameson's prose style. But I suspect that he actually has something to say. I have been intermittently reading his book on Brecht, which is fairly opaque, but offers some hints if real insight. Butler, as far as I can make out, has nothing to say at all. But that is myopinion. Doug disagrees, so probably I am missing something. --jks
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>I don't know what Brad's second point was, but surely his first, that the
>discourse as reported was every bit as convoluted and dense as the worst
>piece of Judith Butler prose, is correct. If that is to be forgiven in
>Jameson but not in Butler, one must ask why?
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>Justin:
><< I take it that Brad's response is some sort of a sneer, the suggestion
>being--what? >>
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