[lbo-talk] contingent foundations

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 14 11:11:36 PST 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Rotating Bitch wrote:
>>
>>>
>> Of course, by the horrid, horrid Butler who writes incomprehensibly.
>
>Every lucid sentence Butler publishes provides further support for those
>who have argued that her major works are deliberately unintelligible in
>order to conceal the fact that their substance is mere tautology.
>
>In the early summer of 1999 I spent an enormous amount of time reading
>and rereading her _Bodies That Matter_. That work is empty of content.

Where did you get this ex cathedra tone? Were you that way at age 20? Or did you acquire it over time, like varicose veins? Did you issue declarations like this in your teaching days? Did your students ever pelt you with marshmallows?

Doug



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