Re: Post-Colonialism & "Modernizing the Un-modern" (was Re: Prostitution, Disease, and Race)

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:28:48 -0400 Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >I'm critical of the genre of criticism called post-colonialism.  For
>
> >
> >Yoshie
>
> Speaking of post-colonialism, this showed up on Doug Henwood's list.
> I
> suppose it is a sign of the times that somebody confessed that he
> couldn't
> tell if it was a joke or not. The Spoons Collective, by the way, is
> the
> outfit that used to run the original Marxism list. You can figure
> out how
> much of a living hell that was from the post. My guess is they took
> it
> seriously for sure.
>
>

BTW here is what Doug has to say about this:

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Chris Kromm wrote:

>I trust this is a joke? The sad part is, it's so hard to tell these
days...

What's so preposterous about a study of the toilet? Dominique Laporte
wrote a fascinating History of Shit, just published by MIT Press; he
argued that the protocols that emerged in the 18th century for
handling waste were crucial to the development of bourgeois
individualism. Slavoj Zizek has a wonderful little riff about
national toilet styles (and national pubic hair styles) and their
relations to "national character."

It's always interesting to note what people don't want to talk about.

Doug
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