[lbo-talk] the Butler did it

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Mon Jun 9 21:25:11 PDT 2008


At 06:41 PM 6/9/2008, Charles Brown wrote:


>CB: Here Butler ( I think Butler is quoted)

naw. it was kelley.


> sounds like she is putting
>forth the same epistemology that Marx does in the 1st, 2nd and 11th
>Theses on Feuerbach. "Engaging the moral/political horizons of the
>public sphere" could be interpreted as practice or practical-critical (
>revolutionary) activity. I'm starting to think Butler is an undercover
>materialist.

social relations are material, right? so if she's writing about the social relations through which identities are formed (etc), then... ?


>The Theses on Feuerbach are a critique of positivist science too. They
>call for science as a unity of theory and practice. Doesn't Butler do
>that in this quote ?

kelley probably does but i couldn't be arsed to read her. hee.

shag

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