[lbo-talk] 'Grey Vampirism'

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 3 13:50:50 PST 2009


At 01:40 PM 12/3/2009, James Heartfield wrote:


>I particularly liked the part of the argument that suggested that
>post-structuralism was the philosophy of 'grey vampirism' - after
>all could their be a more perfect sceptical argument than
>'scepticism towards all grand narratives'.

Yawn. Of course you would key on that.

Not only have you picked the least interesting line to particularly like, you've also misrepresented it. It doesn't say anything about poststructuralism being a philosophy of anyone or anything. It's talking about currents in contemporary academic practice and style. One could easily make the same type of argument about Marxism, as in "as the vulgar Marxists used to say."



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