[PEN-L:28550] Re: Re: rejecting a school

[Bill Burgess <burgess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm skeptical of this achievement. Certainly the blind spot of liberal
equality is exposed by post-prefixers'  focus on marginality, but how much,
really, been added to the earlier Marxist, feminist, anti-imperialist etc.
appreciations of social inequality/complexity (the better versions; I'm not
thinking of the Stalinist types)?

My sense is that, politically, post-prefixism has been one step forward and
two steps back. The emphasis on difference tends to result in abstention
over what is common. What is a good example of post-prefixism yielding
politically richer mixtures of difference and commonality than we knew of
before?

Bill Burgess


> >Can someone name the main achievement of one author who has been dubbed
> "post-structuralist"? It is much better to talk about one specific thing than
> to go on and on about abstractions such as "post-structuralism."
>
> Achievement? Well, I think that the popularization of the value of
> "marginality" has something to do with post-structuralism. And, though I don't
> give litcritters credit for it, our awareness of the way that gender, ability,
> race, sexual orientation, etc. have been meaningfully, materially excluded
> from consideration of "rights" discourse has something to do with
> poststructuralism. Or were you thinking achievement like book titles?
>
> Christian