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walter benn michaels: partial transcript of interview on Behind the News with Doug Henwood

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Culture Wars, Identity Politics, Liberalism, Politics, Racialization, Theory, Trouble with Diversity

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 […]


dicks ‘n’ dough

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 13th, 2009 • Category: Books & Book Reviews, Culture Wars, Fuckstainery, Trouble with Diversity

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. […]


the 80% who don’t go to Harvard

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Books & Book Reviews, Culture Wars, Horseshittery, Identity Politics, Trouble with Diversity

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 […]


it’s an either/or world out there man, don’t trouble yourself with distractions. get with the Walter Benn Michaels Experience!

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Books & Book Reviews, Class, Culture Wars, Fuckstainery, Horseshittery, Identity Politics, Trouble with Diversity

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 […]


Mr 3 Names and selective tagging

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 9th, 2009 • Category: Books & Book Reviews, Culture Wars, Feminist Fight Club, Fuckstainery, Horseshittery, Identity Politics, Trouble with Diversity

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 […]


kiss me quick, i’m a liberal. no maybe it’s lefty. it’s whatever will get me laid ok?

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Books & Book Reviews, Culture Wars, Fuckstainery, Identity Politics, Politics, Trouble with Diversity

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 […]


why can’t i have me summa that brother stuff

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Books & Book Reviews, Culture Wars, Fuckstainery, Identity Politics, Shitheads, Trouble with Diversity

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 […]


hip hop wars

By shag carpet bomb • Dec 13th, 2008 • Category: Culture Wars, Racialization, The Hip Hop Wars

we’ve been shopping all day. my dogs are tarred. i am lusting for one of those homedics massagers i tried in the store. about four balls roll around and massage your back. i enjoyed it so much, when one of those balls rolled and hit the small of my back, i jumped and made noises […]


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