> At 4:45 PM -0800 2/7/03, Miles Jackson wrote:
> > > BTW, I forgot to name Todd Archer, Joanna Bujes, Alexandre Fenelon,
> >> Christian Gregory, Sergio Lopez, Mark Pavlick, and Albert Sonntag.
> >> (I reiterate my hope that those included in the "Marxist Camp" above
> >> won't object to inclusion.) I may be still forgetting some here.
> >
> >[imitation of the donkey in Shrek:] "pick me! pick me!"
> >
> >Miles, doing his best to validate rightwing paranoia about
> >Marxist tenured profs in the public education system
>
> Sorry to have left you out. I should also count Grant Lee, unless he
> has already permanently relocated to PEN-l. Who else? Alex
> Lantsberg (who seldom posts). Chris Brooke (who hardly ever posts).
> On the strength of his favorable remark on Walter Benjamin, among
> other things, I'd also love to include Chris Kromm, but he has seldom
> posted lately. Perhaps, what I'm seeing here is the disappearance of
> not just Marxists but most interesting leftists from LBO-talk.
Well if favourable remarks on Benjamin are all that's required, Yoshie, you'll have to count me too. I know I say I'm not a Marxist, but apparently that's beside the point. I can manage at least one of the many possible interpretations of "historical materialism" I'm sure. Will that be ok?
Catherine (finally, finally, finished moving)
"for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual" (Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" -- ok from memory, but it'll be close enough to make the point)
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