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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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’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: […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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