[lbo-talk] corporate rationality

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 08:51:09 PDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> --One more thing: as Carrol has pointed out repeatedly, there's no way to
> read and critique everything. Sometimes the best response to a text is
> to--leave it aside and read something more interesting.
>
> And, sometimes, when people who's intelligence and insights you respect and
see as e-friends and political colleagues are defending an offensive and deeply flawed text (no matter your agreement with the text's meta-argument), and continue to do so by means of one-line non-engagements with your arguments - including forwarding your note to someone else you respect (who then labels you an enemy, which is reported without comment), a reasonable response is to engage it - at the least to find out if you were wrong.

This isn't an academic exercise for us... furthermore, since I've been teaching family, sex/gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity in my intro classes - and want to jolt my students out of their lethargy - this engaging this stuff is professionally immediate and pedagogically useful.

I'm sure, without the interview, most all of us would have ignored Michaels.

Alan



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