[lbo-talk] slavery and technology

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Dec 15 17:21:08 PST 2006


Carrol Cox wrote:


>
> And a good
>deal of marvelous scholarship of the last 40 or 50 years has strongly
>questioned many features of that old account. Some of this scholarship
>would annoy our clarity fetishists -- the authors don't translate their
>greeek quotations.
>
Carrol, this is insulting. I have never complained about scholarship, I complained about a deliberately obfuscating jargon that developed in the late seventies and that served no purpose except to render the intelligentia politically useless and to create a "private" academic language whose aim was to further differentiate among the thousands of candidates for every single job.

(But, in my dissertation I did translate all my latin and greek quotes....as should everyone who doesn't have a giant stick up their butts.)

Joanna



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