On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Jordan Carroll wrote:
> And I would say that leftist engagement also has a strong correlation with
> departments that engage in "pomo newspeak." The student movement here is
> led primarily by students and professors in history, sociology, English,
> and comp lit.
Absolutely.
I haven't posted this in a few years, but there's this wonderful bit from a dumbass pomo-bashing column by the egregious Eric Alterman in The Nation, which didn't cause him to rethink the premise of the column:
> But here's the twist. [Nelson] Lichtenstein is part of a perfectly Rortyite reformist Campaign for a Living Wage at the University of Virginia. This campaign is not about ending sexism, racism, or homophobia, but about getting janitorial staff a few extra bucks an hour. Who are its volunteers? Primarily, says Lichtenstein, faculty and graduate students from the pomo literature and theory crowd.
Doug