Greaseball? Re: Paglia on poststructuralists

Joel Katz mittelwerk at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 11 16:22:03 CDT 2004


did you get all those dependent clauses free with the crack wax?



>From: "Simon Bryquer-RR" <sbryquer at nyc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "Simon Bryquer-RR" <sbryquer at nyc.rr.com>
>To: "Joel Katz" <mittelwerk at hotmail.com>, <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Greaseball? Re: Paglia on poststructuralists
>Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:22:04 -0400
>
>Obviously from your name your are Jewish and  whether you practice or in
>fact know anything about your religion it does not matter nor does it help
>your observations nor does your critical acumen deserve any merit along the
>lines of objectivity even though you want to come off as some kind as all
>knowing retro white hipster in terms of your language when you use terms
>like 'greaseball' Or would you say you come from kike heritage?
>
>And I hope you realize that I'm not being Chaucerian, in that I don't mean
>kike as  meaning  'to gaze steadfastly'.
>
>SCB
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joel Katz" <mittelwerk at hotmail.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 3:35 PM
>Subject: RE: Paglia on poststructuralists
>
>
> > madonna who?  and, like paglia feels compelled to talk about her
>greaseball
> > parents?
> >
> > just the same, she scores a (low) point.  but to me, only derrida is the
> > real fraud of the trio.  foucault has unquestionably changed the way
>history
> > is written--for the better (see: mike davis).  and lacan is insane--but
> > still grounded enough in freud and modernist concerns with narrative and
> > perspective that his work, in skilled hands (see: slavoj zizek), has 
>come
>to
> > seem remarkably relevant to critique of ideology.
> >
> >
> >
> > >.......
> > >
> > >"When I pointed out in Arion that Foucault, for all his blathering 
>about
> > >"power," never managed to address Adolph Hitler or the Nazi occupation 
>of
> > >France, I received a congratulatory letter from David H. Hirsch (a
> > >literature professor at Brown), who sent me copies of riveting chapters
> > >from his then-forthcoming book, "The Deconstruction of Literature:
> > >Criticism After Auschwitz" (1991). As Hirsch wrote me about French
>behavior
> > >during the occupation, "Collaboration was not the exception but the
>rule."
> > >I agree with Hirsch that the leading poststructuralists were cunning
> > >hypocrites whose  tortured syntax and encrustations of jargon concealed
>the
> > >moral culpability of their and their parents' generations in Nazi
>France."
> > >
> > >....................
> > >
> > >Poststructuralism is a corpse. Let it stink in the Parisian trash pit
>where
> > >it belongs!
> > >
> > >SALON | Dec. 2, 1998
> > >
> > ><amen>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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