[lbo-talk] The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn't Matter

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Tue Apr 22 20:04:24 PDT 2003


On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Is there no room in your world for antiquarians?

Plenty of room. But what is culturally old is defined only in relation to what is culturally new: 3D videogames vs. cave drawings, etc. Conversely, the repression of the new amounts, in practice, to the criminal destruction of the old. Exhibit A: the fate of the Baghdad national museum. Exhibit B: the nightmare Palantir called the US mass media ("the longer you look, the less you see").


> Are you measuring disciplines by the number and amount of salaries they
> produce?

Not the disciplines, the educational marketplace itself. It's time for unabashed materialism in the education industry. If Big Science can organize itself to wrest loose multibillion-dollar funding, why can't Big Humanities do the same?

-- DRR



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