[lbo-talk] Metaphorical and real war: poetry by other , violent means

BrownBingb at aol.com BrownBingb at aol.com
Sun Apr 6 20:44:58 PDT 2003



> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>

Yup, though this dispute isn't just about intellectual war.

Doug

Michel Foucault: What is tiresome in ideological arguments is that one is
> necessarily swept away by the "model of war."
> -clip
> Wouldn't it be much better
> instead to think that those with whom you disagree are perhaps mistaken; or
> perhaps that you haven't understood what they intended to say?
>
> ^^^^^^
>
> CB: Well, Michael Kelly was _definitely_ ,not just "perhaps" ,mistaken. And
> I didn't misunderstand what he intended to say.
>
> And it is ironic, perhaps poetic justice, (but not using a "model of war"
> or metaphor of war), that he died in a real , criminal and savage war, that
> he promoted ideologically.

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