|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: joanna bujes
||
|| At 09:47 AM 02/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
|| >The French left may be sucking up to their pomo philosophers
|| >out of contrition for their maoist sins but in the US there are no such
|| >indigenous causes, it's all a matter of the pipers' payers
|| calling the tune.
|| >
|| >Hakki
||
|| oh, yes. I remember my pomo Marxist studies prof telling me
|| that the reason
|| my position (as a Marxist) was untenable was because there was
|| no working
|| class left in the United States. We were at that moment standing in his
|| office at UC Berkeley, overlooking Oakland (impoverished,
|| black, working
|| class city) to the south. I asked him if he'd like to go have lunch in
|| Oakland and further meditate on the absence of a working class. He
|| declined. Then he wrote a long and very negative evaluation of my
|| performance in class which though "brilliant" ...had the effect of
|| mau-mauing and disrupting his class. He went on to found a pomo
|| historicist
|| lit crit magazine and then, on to Harvard where he put together
|| some "sexy"
|| history of ideas program for them.
||
|| Joanna
||
ROTFL! Wild, Joanna!
Reminds me of my fight with my linguistics dept. head (a Chomsky student) whom I told that TG grammar was, besides being formalistic in a way that is indefensible after Goedel and Church, was funded by the Pentagon. He went thru the roof and I started throwing chairs around (you got the wit, I got the testosterone :-))
Hakki