Culturalist Explanations Re: Deleuze & Guattari....

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 4:02 PM +0800 1/16/03, Grant Lee wrote:
>Before I go any further, if it isn't clear, I think one of _the_ big points
>of "relations of production" as a conceptualisation not to exclude "culture"
>but to  _preclude_reliance_ on any discussion of culture when it wasn't
>needed.

To take one example, culturalist explanations of poverty -- e.g., 
blaming the "culture" of the poor (individuals or nations) for their 
poverty -- _are_ quite obnoxious.
-- 
Yoshie

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