[lbo-talk] Re:Theory

[joanna bujes]

At 12:00 PM 04/22/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Reminds me of a talk here by Michael Hardt about a month ago.  Of course the
>relevance of academic discourse came up (the conference was sponsored by the
>English Dept.) and one questioner kept asking some complex show-off question
>about the relationship between budget cuts and the development of theory and
>theories of revolt and on and on.  Hardt looked blank.  Finally, after the
>questioner tried again, Hardt just said something like, 'See, I think the
>disconnect here is that I don't think the revolution is going to come out of
>the academy.'  You could hear the room sag.

As if. Academic theory in the last twenty years was NEVER about revolution. 
It was just about staking out a piece of real estate in theory. That's all.

Joanna