Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 17:07:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Heretic Refuses To Recent


At 4:48 PM 5/22/96, LeoCasey-AT-aol.com wrote:

>I guess that anything less than cheerleading for those who want to see this
>problematic in Manichaean terms as a battle between the forces of
>enlightenment (science) and the forces of darkness (a residual category in
>which everything from discourse theory to deconstruction can be conveniently
>dumped) will fall short for Ralph, Rahul and others. I can only say that I do
>not share in their faith, I do not find the self-satisfied condemnations of
>the heretical and apostatic even interesting (to say nothing of compelling),
>and that I am not about to genuflect before the altar of science, anymore
>than I would worship at the temple of _Social Text_. Sorry if my agnosticism
>about the more grandiose claims for human knowledge bugs you, but I yam what
>I yam.

Dial me Karen Finley.

Leo, your life is a battle with straw people. You can take a critical
attitude towards the social uses of science and still think Social Text -
which is like the flagship journal of the cult stud armada, right? - a load
of crap. Bourgeois thinkers might agree with your distinction, but not many
of us who want to take the post out of post-Marxism would.

Doug

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