On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:42:10 -0500 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
writes:
> >--- 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.
I guess the experience of reading *Empire* is just so ineffable!
Jim F.
> --
> Yoshie
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