[lbo-talk] Thoughts on Butler

wrobert at uci.edu wrobert at uci.edu
Sun Jun 8 23:31:45 PDT 2008


I tried to translate a portion of Thomas Munter as theologian of the revolution. Words probably could be found to describe the disaster, but I would prefer not to explore them. robert wood


> Chris Doss:
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>> Anglophone pomos imitate the bad translations from
>> French. It would be as if a bunch of Chinese fans of
>> Joyce were trying to write like Chinese translations
>> of Ulysses.
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> John Holloway is guilty of this sort of thing. He is
> trying to write like Ernst Bloch, but *in English*.
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> One cannot write like Ernst Bloch in English, and one
> should not try.
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> I think this is a reason why a lot of people who might
> otherwise have some use for the form-analytical
> discussions of value and the state in _Change The
> World Without Taking Power_ are so irritated by the
> book, with all the histrionic discussion of "the
> scream" and "the separation between doing and done."
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> That sort of Marxian Gnosticism only works in Bloch's
> expressionist German, in English it makes one sound
> like an emo kid reading _Capital_.
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