----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Robert Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:01 am Subject: Cornell
> In the interests of livening up the summer LBO surf, I have to
> tell y'all
> that I'm chilling my postgrad self out at Cornell, doing this summer
> seminar thing, they have this Critical Theory shindig with all
> these top
> names shuttling in. Getting to Ithaca was a pain, plane delays, bus
> schedules messed up, *ugh*. But awfully nice to reexperience the East
> Coast 'hood, all the multinational flavas which Eugene just
> doesn't have,
> the accents of the brothers and sisters down at the Greyhound
> station like
> song, and song is, as the non-human Kaoru Nagisa said, the highest
> achievement of us Lillim. Ran into Fred Jameson right off the bat, who
> came across as a surprisingly down-to-earth person, he's been down
> with a
> flu or something and had to leave early, but got to mix with some
> of the
> hoi polloi. Very nice folks, with whom you can at least have a
> conversation about world events, though the number of actual
> activists is
> as small as in any professional group.
>
> Ah, the wide, wide world of theory. Whenever I congregate with
> academics,my grad union hackles kick into overdrive: I feel like
> some 21st century
> mole, sent here to oversee the trench-works for the global Left's
> high-speed fiber connection to the academic brainpods, parked in their
> sound-proofed cybernetic vats and doing whatever it is that vat-bound
> brainpods actually do with their time.
>
> No word yet on whether any riots are planned for the 4th of July. I'm
> going to cruise by Cornell's labor studies program later this week and
> see what's up. If anything interesting happens, I'll let y'all know.
>
> -- Dennis
>
>