[lbo-talk] Butler on Butler

Joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Jun 5 21:48:13 PDT 2008


Well, then, they can feast on Butler's prose.

Joanna

Dennis Claxton wrote:
> But not everyone likes poetry.
>
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> At 04:08 PM 6/4/2008, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> That's why there's poetry. (Not a joke.)
>>
>> Joanna
>>
>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> From: Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
>>
>>> "It’s not that I’m in favor of difficulty for
>>> difficulty’s sake; it’s that I think there is a
>>> lot in ordinary language and in received grammar
>>> that constrains our thinking ­ indeed, about what
>>> a person is, what a subject is, what sexuality
>>> is, what politics can be ­ and that I’m not sure
>>> we’re going to be able to struggle effectively
>>> against those constrains or work within them in a
>>> productive way unless we see the ways in which
>>> grammar is both producing and constraining
>>>
>> our sense of what the world is."
>>
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