[PEN-L:2476] Re: Re: Judith Butler, etc.

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:

> The main thing I got out of Epstein's remarks is that graduate students
> imbued with the postmodernist zeitgeist are more interested in fighting
> with other graduate students than with institutionalized racism and sexism.

Ever talked to any real grad students, Lou? All the grad students I know
are (1) deeply in debt, (2) deeply overworked, (3) know the job market
sucks but bust their ass anyway for what they love to do. The pressure of
the marketplace is not some ideological fixation; the system really does
grind you down in the most personal, direct kind of way. Let's not blame
the temp workers of academe for the (innumerable) sins of the tenured.

-- Dennis