American Colonialism

[glthompson]

Anyone else read the Wolfe piece that Terrence alludes to here? Does
anyone read Wolfe any more? I thought it curious that he felt it
necessary to attack the Intellectual anyway, and having decided that, to
use such obvious Straw Persons as a representative Theorist (Fish?
Fish?? Fish???) and Feminist as targets.

Seems to me that present-day "Rococo Marxism" in the US is on a par with
the quaint museums envisioned under the Third Reich for Judaism. . . .

GT

Conrad Anexoukai Apexou wrote:

> Foucault and another Frenchman, Jacques Derrida, are the
> great idols of Rococo Marxism in America. Could it be
> otherwise? Today, a throughout the twentieth century, our
> intellectuals remain sweaty little colonials, desperately
> trotting along, trying to catch up with the way the idols do
> it in France, which is through Theory, Theory, Theory. In
> this pursuit, some colonials inevitably run faster than
> others, and leading the pack currently are two academics,
> Stanley Fish and Judith Butler.
>
> IN THE LAND OF THE ROCOCO : Why is no one
> celebrating the Second American century? Harper's Magazine,
> Tom Wolfe.