Re: clarification

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Back in the days before I became pesrona non grata on LBO. I have never
been able to follow any sentence by Butler without getting hopelessly
lost, including the one below.   I guess some of us simply do not have
adequate intellectual capacity.

Then I am not one who going for messages, intellectual or physical.

There is so much oppression everywhere that we don't really need
sophistication to appreciates it, except perhaps as an escape mode.

Henry C.K. Liu

Doug Henwood wrote:

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >Well, I myself have criticized Judith Butler perhaps more often than
> >I should have on LBO-talk, probably to the chagrin of Doug,
>
> I wish you agreed with me, of course, but I'm not chagrined that you
> don't. As St Judy herself put it, "The only possible unity will not
> be the synthesis of a set of conflicts, but will be *a mode of
> sustaining conflict in politically productive ways,* a practice of
> contesation that demands that these movements articulate their goals
> under the pressure of each other without therefore exactly becoming
> each other...."
>
> Doug