[lbo-talk] Shuttle. Click

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 19 08:55:50 PST 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>As far as I can see, there is an element of bad faith in this
>juggling of vocabulary ("performance" rather than "practice" or "social
>relations" or "history"). Probably not bad faith but self-deception.

Hmm, I thought you were opposed to reading the motives of others.


>It's a way of maintaining what is in practice a radical individualist
>theory while sneaking social relations in the back door under the
>weasel-term "performance."

You do know what a performative statement is, right?

Doug



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