DJ Freddy J Spins the Phat Trax

[Ken Hanly]

Well perhaps what you say makes a bit more sense than the original but I
really dont appreciate the cleverness in deliberately writing in such a way
that only an elite sub-group of academics could possibly understand it.
However your post makes it clear why such pathetic prose is  produced.
Although a nice bloke, Fred too is making this up consciously in an attempt
to flog it to someone. Dennis sure bought it.Originally, I thought I would
critique specific parts of what Fred says but the whole is so hopeless
anyone who buys such a product would hardly listen to an analysis that would
exhibit traits post-modernists, and post-post-modernists such as Fred,
would no doubt abhor: analytical precision, simplicity of language insofar
as that is possible, and straightforward logic. It wouldn't sell.

 Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Schaap <rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: DJ Freddy J Spins the Phat Trax


> G'day Brad,
>
> >You do realize that I understand barely a word of the above? I mean,
> >I don't understand in what sense "postmodernism is the cultural logic
> >of multinational capitalism." And I also do not understand how
> >"globalization"--which started in a serious way with the steamship
> >and the telegraph--is merely one face of "postmodernity." And
> >thereafter my confusion deepens...
>
> A nice bloke called Fred reckonms we're all economists now, that that's
how
> we relate to each other, and that we don't so much produce our culture in
> living our lives, where and when we are, but consciously make it up with
an
> eye to flogging it to someone.  He then said something about talking about
> language in the moment it is spoken and language as something that's
always
> changing.  He speculated that you can't fit the whole concept, and nothing
> but the concept, into a word or words.  He thinks there might be an
> uncomfortable tension between the way we produce things these days and the
> unprecedented sway of the shareholder.  He went from there to the idea
that
> another tension might pertain between natural time, human needs, and what
> we let market-led digitisation do to our conception and experience of
time.
> He thinks he's cleverer than the posties.
>
> And he's right, too.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
>
>