[lbo-talk] The Necrosocial

[Max B. Sawicky]

In college I wrote exactly this sort of essay (w/fewer 50-cent words).
Now I (and many others, no doubt) marvel, not without some envy, at
the 
good fortune of those who can attend Berkeley and the foolishness and
political lunacy of these critiques.

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[mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial

On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Eric Beck wrote:


> The university steals and homogenizes our time yes, our bank
accounts
> also, but it also steals and homogenizes meaning.  As much as
capital
> is invested in building a killing apparatus abroad, an incarceration
> apparatus in California, it is equally invested here in an apparatus
> for managing social death.

Oh please. Universities compared to what? Auto plants? McDonald's? The

right hates universities because they provide some degree of freedom  
of thought and a certain hospitality towards renegades. Yeah, I know  
how awful they can be sometimes. But still a lot of good comes out of

them. This sort of rhetoric is just overheated and self-indulgent  
whining.

Doug
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