"Popular" in English & Spanish Re: Deleuze & Guattari...

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>  If anyone has anything interesting to say about
>>  _Empire_ or "popular
>>  culture" or anything else, go ahead and say it,
>>  rather than simply
>>  insisting that it can be interesting, significant,
>>  relevant, or
>>  whatever.
>
>This is classic Yoshie.  Let's recall the steps
>leading up to the above statement.  First she casts a
>slur on "Empire" by stating that it was just a pop
>phenomenon, and that therefore we should "move on".
>Then people asked what was wrong with a pop
>phenomenon.  Now she has turned the tables, and
>encourages people to talk about "Empire" or any other
>form of "pop culture", instead of just insisting on
>the attributes of pop culture!  Got to hand it to you
>Yoshie, you are the Houdini of rhetoric.  Wow!
>
>Thomas

See, you have more to say about critics of _Empire_ than _Empire_ 
itself.  One of the noteworthy things about threads on _Empire_ on 
LBO-talk and PEN-l is that those who say they like _Empire_ have 
little to say about it.
-- 
Yoshie

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