Social Text issue

[Tresy Kilbourne]

>i have to say though, i appreciate the physicist's joke...I think he 
>was less critiquing the philosophical position of relativism (which 
>can & should be attacked philosophically, but on its own terms...) 
>but instead critiquing the esotericism of academic writing, 
>particularly in the lit crit field. 

I agree completely. It's about time someone on the left showed the reat 
of the world we're not obscurantist jerkoff artists. The huffy response 
of Mssrs. Ross and Fish remind me of the the asshole captain played by 
Bruno Kirby in "Good Morning, Vietnam," whose pedantic attempts to 
neutralize Adrian Kronauer's/Robin Williams' digs only redouble the 
comedic effect. These guys really don't get it. And it's all the funnier, 
coming from folks whose ostensible metier, as I always understood it, was 
irony.

Tresy Kilbourne
Seattle WA
tresyk at halcyon.com