At lbo, Dennis Claxton dropped a link to something Michael Berube wrote at his blog. Basically, Berube read the same Michaels I did, not the one fantasized by Henwood. He wrote about it in his blog post, criticized him in similar ways to the ways I had. Only Berube is much funnier than moi.
When Doug […]
Doug Henwood tried to mock Carrol Cox for chiding people about using logical fallacy in their discussion of Gore Vidal. Doug wrote:
Life isn’t about people. It’s about Historical Forces.
Yeah, it was a dumb comment because it really has zippo to do with Carrol’s theory of society. It has a lot more to do […]
Michaels chapter on religion is, I think, a skeleton key to what he’s about. He seems to have taken to heart whatever he learned in rhetoric classes and spent a career elevating all the reasons why you shouldn’t use ad hominem into a theory that has all the analytical subtlety of the cudgel you […]
and no, the point isn’t to ransack his text for incriminating evidence. the point is to explicate the entire damn argument, instead of extracting out of it the one thing you agree with and discarding the rest as if there is no fucking connection between the two!
i don’t think you rescue ideas from a […]
I’ve been using up crap in the cupboards and fridge. I had this tube of crescent rolls and some turkey sausage, so i just made some dicks ‘n’ dough. I was chuckling to myself, wrapping the meat in the dough, watching as the dough starting expanding ever so slightly as it hit the warm air. […]
Chuck Grimes pointed me at a post about Walter Benn Michaels by Lou Proyect. I dropped by to ask him his opinion. I left the link to WBM’s talk at Harvard and listened to it again as I was packing. At Lou’s blog, people challenged him on his interpretation of WBM and Lou concedes that […]
Honestly, Walter Benn MIchaels really is a piece of work. I’ve been packing my stuff to move, and so I have plenty of time to think about this one particular chapter. It starts out, helpfully (!), to show that it’s just not race that’s a problem, but also other things like gender. (Of course, don’t […]
So, one of the other things I didn’t address in Walter Been Michaels’ book, The Trouble with Diversity, was the chapter, Just and Unjust Rewards. It seems to begin as an attempt disarm critics who might argue that he is singling out race when it comes to diversity. To really be fair, and not […]
OK., so LOBsters know about my ranting about Walter Benn Michaels. What I bitched about early on was his use of leftist and radical language — class, exploitation, and referring to “the left” — to advance what is merely a reformist Welfare liberal position in opposition to Neo-Liberalism.
Henwood, of course, challenged me, arguing that […]
oh good god. i have been on a rant, criticizing Walter Benn MIchaels work in The Trouble With Diversity over at LBO. So, I’m about wrapped up with it all, have made my case, and I happen across a video of him. So, bored at work, I’m listening away only to learn that Michaels pulls […]
from archive : s0metim3s, which is a topic I’m going to write more about when I get time to review Walter Benn Michael’s _The Trouble with Diversity_. I mentioned it awhile ago and pointed at a review that intrigued me.
To pose the question of the materiality of race is also …m to pose the […]
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