>I would suggest that rather than dismissing the theory of the
>academy as being useless theory, we rather understand it as one
>expression of the alienated condition of intellectuals (and society
>in general), and realize that sometimes they stumble on some serious
>shit. Funny how we can bash the intellectuals of our day, all the
>while Marx stole everything he came up with from boug. intellectuals
>of his day, and then reworked it.
I wonder how wide the theory-haters cast their net. Derrida, no doubt. Butler, probably - but even that LRB article on anti-Semitism? Zizek? Probably him too. Foucault? Did he do anything worthwhile, or is he another one of those Gallic obfucators?
Doug