[lbo-talk] Butler

[shag]

and, btw, the author who has brought us to an understanding of how the 
holocaust is a social construction is norman finklestein. others have, too, 
f's work is just the starkest example. the ordinary u.s.er who runs around 
thinking that it was mostly the deed of hitler -- and we socially 
constitute this when we reference (incorrectly) Godwin's law in debate -- 
is engaged in reproducing the social relations that constitute the 
halocaust in a _particular_ way.

At 09:55 PM 6/4/2008, shag wrote:


>The social constructionist position is pretty simple (but mind, Butler is
>+criticizing_ social con here). Mars exists. It's materiality is not in
>doubt. But what Mars means to us is something we, as a society, culture
>create and this has varied historically. The red planet, Barsoom, the stuff
>of mythic stories or science fiction, home of ETs, an object consulted in
>astrological forecasts, the object of scientific investigation, a future
>home for those fleaing a dying planet earth, etc.

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