speaking out
Date: April 21, 2002
To: r
From: m
Subject: i'm listening to hooverphonic. don't clobber me for it. "battersea."
my study date called and cancelled. hrmm....
hey, i meant to say something--about this entry-- http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=absolution&itemid=423846 -- and things you've mentioned about french philosophers' style. something arie kruglanski mentioned at that discussion the other day was REALLY interesting; he said a big problem right now with european social psychology and university in general is, the hierarchal system is emphasized, more so than in america. and that a few people have actually written theses positing it as--well, it serves hierarchal purposes well to be intentionally vague or stylistically pronounced in papers...one other professor interjected at that point with, "like, it's a way to get off the hook every time, as it sends the superior message, if you don't get it, it's your fault." without saying anything clearly or at times even substantially. !
more later.
mb
i've been trying desperately to find some theses on this...it was referred to informally as "the french postmodernist problem." :) a la lacan and derrida...
if someone knows particular texts focusing on this problem, PLEASE could you tip me off? i've mined jstor and muse etc and the library system at pitt, and i've got some quasi-leads...but kruglanski implied there are some commonly understood seminal texts about this. and i don't think i've found those yet.
thank you.
To: r
From: m
Subject: i'm listening to hooverphonic. don't clobber me for it. "battersea."
my study date called and cancelled. hrmm....
hey, i meant to say something--about this entry-- http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=absolution&itemid=423846 -- and things you've mentioned about french philosophers' style. something arie kruglanski mentioned at that discussion the other day was REALLY interesting; he said a big problem right now with european social psychology and university in general is, the hierarchal system is emphasized, more so than in america. and that a few people have actually written theses positing it as--well, it serves hierarchal purposes well to be intentionally vague or stylistically pronounced in papers...one other professor interjected at that point with, "like, it's a way to get off the hook every time, as it sends the superior message, if you don't get it, it's your fault." without saying anything clearly or at times even substantially. !
more later.
mb
i've been trying desperately to find some theses on this...it was referred to informally as "the french postmodernist problem." :) a la lacan and derrida...
if someone knows particular texts focusing on this problem, PLEASE could you tip me off? i've mined jstor and muse etc and the library system at pitt, and i've got some quasi-leads...but kruglanski implied there are some commonly understood seminal texts about this. and i don't think i've found those yet.
thank you.