[lbo-talk] bada bing bada-badiou

[Gar Lipow]

>
> Carrol's made this point before: you can't read everything.  It wouldn't
> surprise me at all if Badiou hasn't read Buchler or Santayana or James.
> It is a bit frustrating, though, to see people grappling with problems
> in their own academic silo when they could learn a lot from insanely
> intelligent people who live in a different academic silo.  (My favorite
> example: Butler's main points in Gender Trouble are an ornate
> restatement of the sociological work of people like Goffman and
> Garfinkel decades earlier.)
>
> Miles

I have nothing productive to say about this, but somehow the back and
forth on this reminds of a really awful joke that made me laugh on
Making Light.   Maybe it will amuse you if your are in the mood.

Heisenberg, Godel, and Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg says "This
seems very improbable. I think we are in a joke, but I can't be
certain". "Ah", says Godel. "If we were outside the joke we could
know. But since we are inside the  joke, there is no way to decide
whether we are inside a joke or not.".  "Of course we are in a joke. "
replies Chomsky, "but you are telling it wrong!"