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titty twisting tu quoques

By shag carpet bomb • Nov 2nd, 2011 • Category: Politics, Theory

A long time ago, someone at a discussion lists was calling me a sophist. Being a philistine, ha ha, I had no idea what that meant. I asked Carrol Cox at LBO. We had this really long ranging discussion, as well as a related one about why, in academia, it is probably a really bad […]



Identity political powerlessness sucks giant green donkey dong; I am an ideologue about that and I am proud

By shag carpet bomb • Jul 13th, 2010 • Category: Archiving, Feminist Fight Club, Janet Halley, Split Decisions, Theory

2007-01-21 04:34:00
Oooops! I may be plagiarizing there. Whatev. I’ve been quite irked of late to read a lot of dismissals of theory and ideology, as if to say that asshattery and shitbagginess are caused by commitment to a political theory or ideology. I’m an ideologue and I am proud. Indeed, pretty much every single person […]



janet halley posts

By shag carpet bomb • Jul 6th, 2010 • Category: Announcements, Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Split Decisions

I rescued my old posts on Janet Halley’s Split Decisions, archiving them here: http://cleandraws.com/category/so-very-1998/janet-halley-so-very-1998/
sorry to be behind on that project. took a spill on my bike and had to recuperate.



Five Faces of Oppression

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Identity Politics, Intersectionality, Iris Marion Young, Politics

this was originally posted on the old blog, 2006.05.02. I’m reposting it because it is too long to post the whole thing on a discussion list.

I’d mentioned to piny that one of the problems with the attacks on “trans politics” (sic) was that they argued that, as long as transfolk weren’t being denied their formal […]



religion has a lot more place in politics than race or culture do

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Books & Book Reviews, Horseshittery, Identity Politics, Politics, Theory, Trouble with Diversity

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 […]



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 […]



premodern lurv?

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 9th, 2009 • Category: Books & Book Reviews, Critical Social Theory, Feminist Fight Club

since a bunch of people i respect are recommending the work of hardt and negri, i started poking around reading reviews. i read this:
Multitude contains solid concepts undermined by nuttiness: “We need a more generous and more unrestrained conception of love. We need to recuperate the public and political conception of love common to premodern […]



self clarification of the struggles and wishes of the age

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Democrats, Liberalism, Marxist Theory, Politics

with apologies to Eric for being totally Hegelian in this :)
At LBO, Michael Pollak wrote:
True, and that was a great editorial to post. But I think both of you are missing a key linguistic and conceptual asymmetry here between right and left, which the left has no interest in curing, but which if we […]



the slimy underbelly of sympathetic understanding of the Other

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 10th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Racialization, Theory, Third World Feminism, Whiteness, Women of Color Feminism

this is a really great review of Martha Nussbaum’s book, Sex and Social Justice Cecilia (from Au) kept telling me to read it because I’d probably appreciate her discussion of objectification, sex work, etc. I read it two summers ago, and after wading through what seemed to be far too much text for what it […]



Johnetta Cole on Intimate Politics

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 8th, 2009 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Identity Politics, Marxist Theory, Social movements, Women of Color Feminism

at work, I’ve been listening to Angela Davis — just search on youtube and listen to them all. It’s all you need to understand what is going on, and how to address so many of the issues that come up repeatedly within leftist and feminist circles.
Seriously.
Meanwhile, a “related video” alert brought me to this […]



Feminism and Capitalism

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 22nd, 2009 • Category: Marxist Theory, Political Economy

ha. Is capitalism a feminist issue? Or, is it an issue feminists should care about?
Yeah, I’m being snide. Reading Postone last week, and then diving into The Great Financial Crisis (TGFC) by John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, it’s on my mind. A little. As I read TGFC, my mind sometimes wanders to a blog […]



don’t like the weather? wait a while; it’ll change

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 19th, 2009 • Category: Books & Book Reviews, Economics, Marxist Theory, Political Economy, Politics, The Great Financial Crisis

Have you ever heard that expression? “If you don’t like the weather in this town, just wait awhile. It will change.”
It gets said everywhere I’ve lived. Well, in this town, it’s true. I walked to work, nice morning. The rain finally stopped. In the late afternoon, I sat in a park for a late lunch. […]



this is related to stupid uses of class in feminist bloglandia but i can’t be arsed to connect the dots

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 8th, 2009 • Category: Class, Critical Social Theory, Marxist Theory, Theory, Time Labor and Social Domination

seriously. this really is related. as i mentioned in previous post, i couldn’t be arsed to travel my lazy ass up the stairs to go get another book, so i trundled postone’s book to the porch with me and my cuppajoe. i flip open the book to where i’d last been, which was toward the […]



identity politics and moishe postone’s time, labor, and social domination

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 8th, 2009 • Category: Critical Social Theory, Marxist Theory, Theory, Time Labor and Social Domination

I haven’t had time to sit down and write about Agustin’s book, Sex at the Margins, but I will try to get to it before it’s due back. Problem is, they’ve ramped up the pace at work, so I worked a long week, which left little time for anything substantive — other than getting to […]



i don’t know why, if i participate in a structure of inequality, things keep being unequal. ??? waaaaaah.

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: Internet, Social movements, Theory

i’ve been reading clay shirkey’s stuff on the power laws (long tail, etc.) of social life. One prominent one, from Vilifred Pareto, was the 80/20 rule: 20% would own 80% of the wealth. You can read up on the whys and wherefores at wiki. Meanwhile, my point in writing was something I read awhile ago: […]



yes, exactly: blogging cultivates the isolated, elevated, asocial individual

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: Belly Button Lint, Here Comes Everybody, Internet, Research, Social movements, Theory

I heard Clay Shirkey on NPR a couple of days ago, so I’ve been reading up on his latest book, “Here Comes Everybody.” I’m probably going to use some of his stuff in a presentation I have to do for work. At Amazon, I read this in one of the reviews:
Writing in sharp contrast […]



identity political powerlessness has its privileges

By shag carpet bomb • Nov 15th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, Feminist Fight Club, Film Theory, Identity Politics, Playing the Race Card, Queer, Racialization, Theory, WMF, Whiteness, Women of Color Feminism

“My community has a problem with homophobia, but we aren’t the only ones. African Americans are but 12 percent of the population. We have neither the numbers nor the power, given our history in this country, to disenfranchise another group. Blaming us for what is an American ill–as prevalent in, say, white Tripoli, Iowa, as […]



Obama is the Catherine Mackinnon for oppressed white NASA engineers

By shag carpet bomb • Feb 6th, 2008 • Category: Catherine MacKinnon, Election 2008, Imperialism, Janet Halley, Obama, Theory

OK. I alluded to this analysis already, but I hadn’t realized I wasn’t very clear until I repeated myself and realized, fromt he response, that it was too opaque the 1st time. Here, I’m showing Obama’s rhetoric consists of empty signifiers. How his speeches are “all things to all people”. What makes white ppl so […]



a problem with authority

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Racialization, Theory, this bridge we call home

finally. something i can sink my teeth into — something new. I’m about half way through this bridge we call home and I’ve finally hit on a contribution that is something I haven’t read before in an anthology like this. In this case, the article by four women about a women’s studies course on Latina […]



jessica valenti, queer dewd’s shero

By shag carpet bomb • May 16th, 2007 • Category: Archiving, Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Full Frontal Feminism, Horseshittery, Intersectionality, Janet Halley, Racialization, Sex Positive Politics, Split Decisions, Third Wave

2007-05-16 20:10:40
Little Light wrote:
B|L, I’m honestly a little surprised at you. Yes, some of these criticisms are sophomoric or by people who haven’t read the book. But you’re treating substantive arguments the same way as the idle sniping. I don’t care whether or not you agree with the critiques offered, but some of these […]



Robin West’s pinky sex as foundation for the law

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 23rd, 2007 • Category: Archiving, Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Identity Politics, Intersectionality, Janet Halley, Radical Feminism, Sex & Sexuality, Split Decisions

2007-01-23 00:22:13
Carpenter asked me a question off-blog. Seeing as how a Bitch can, for a change, breath a little, I decided to catch up with various things that have been put off in the search for jobs and gigs. Among the backlog of things to be done was slog through email. I had a huge […]



Victimization rhetoric in Western feminist thought

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 19th, 2007 • Category: Archiving, Catherine MacKinnon, Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Identity Politics, Imperialism, Intersectionality, Janet Halley, Queer, Racialization, Radical Feminism, Split Decisions, Theory

2007-01-19 15:37:14
If you followed the Burqagate wars, this article might help flesh things out. If you are still confused about essentialism and why it can be a problem, the article also illuminates, though I hope it’s not too big on the theory and strange words. The reference will also help ground my discussions of Janet […]



Convergence/Divergence: from Combahee to BfP and Nubian

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 6th, 2007 • Category: Archiving, Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Intersectionality, Janet Halley, Racialization, Split Decisions

2007-01-06 09:53:31
OK, so KH’s questions got me thinking. I decided to unbury Split Decisions I realized I needed to explain something that probably isn’t clear. Now, I was just going to flesh out Halley’s work. As I did so, though, I couldn’t help but think of how nubian and brownfemipower articulate their own convergentist and […]



Why Queer Dewd

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 4th, 2007 • Category: Archiving, Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Intersectionality, Janet Halley, Queer, Racialization, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Split Decisions

2007-01-04 14:12:05
Since I’ve been very disengaged from the blog, I was kind of in a place where I was thinking, “Man, I’d like to get back to a time when I had hardly any readers and they all knew me already. So much more time to participate elsewhere and still write. Not much need to […]



halley’s kicking my ass

By shag carpet bomb • Sep 26th, 2006 • Category: Archiving, Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Janet Halley, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Split Decisions

2006-09-26 01:36:51
and blowing my mind. I’m reading the part about Judith Butler again because it just blew my mind. I’m just finding it fascinating that the person who gives Halley to most unexpected resistance is Butler! I woulda thunk that, if anyone could dig “Taking a Break from Feminism,” then it’d be Butler and what […]



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