[lbo-talk] Re: No, it's not anti-semitic

[Chuck Grimes]

I find it hard to believe this was written by the same person who wrote
_Gender Trouble_.  This is crystal clear.  Has she written anything else
in this style? Michael

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I had exactly the same shock. Judith Butler? Is this the same Judith
Butler of Psychic Lives of Power, winner of the worst writer of the
year award for most of the 90s? 

Just to prove to myself it really was Butler under all that clarity,
I edited a paragraph for fun, chopping about three lines worth with
no loss. The excess was of the `possibilities foreclosed in advance'
kind of redundancy. The Butler of old was still there hidden so to
speak in the profusions and flourishes.

I was also struck by her adroit and sharp use of deconstruction as an
rhetorical tool to dissect the opposition. How retro is that?

Chuck Grimes