[lbo-talk] do people still read post-structuralism?

[shag carpet bomb]

At 11:07 PM 11/2/2009, Eubulides wrote:
>Joanna wrote:
>>Asad wrote:
>>"but I really
>>don't understand this kind of knee-jerk reaction from people who subscribe
>>to an intellectual/political tradition that attempted to describe a new
>>historical period and recruited the most jargon-laden and obscurantist
>>bourgeois philosophical fashion of the day to do so."
>>We do? I don't think there's a single deconstructionist on this list.
>>I could be wrong.
>>Joanna
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>I think he's talking about some of the Marxists on the list and their 
>connection to Marx' appropriation of Hegel and Ricardo and___________.
>
>Deconstruction is not a  political tradition. Marxism is/was/is.
>
>Ian

I'd count myself as someone who thinks deconstruction is fun! To me, it's a 
method.   It's a tool. Now, I'm supposed to get a flathead screwdriver to 
unscrew the screws for the switch plate, but being a lazy ass sometimes a 
butterknife will do. But you wouldn't use a phillips head or a hammer or a 
tig welder to unscrew that screw.

I've never understood what people think is wrong with deconstruction. *shrug*

shag