<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">But Derrida is delicious! Although I understand it is soooo uncool to think so. And sooooooo uncool nowadays to suggest that being an "intellectual" might be a good and adventurous thing to be!---and that one can be compassionate and a doer of good deeds even if she/he <i>loves</i> crazy/wild/ weird Derridean-Cixousian-(?) Celanesque, etc. words and the wonder-<i>full</i> labyrinthian land of philosophy and theory. Oh dear, it is so easy to make fun of the extreme-literates while the world aorund us becomes a place where no one reads a book…etc. etc….I'd rather go to a party where the colorful confetti of theory is raining down on my head than be in a dull room of ---well, of <i>unchallenging</i> thought…? I'm too sleepy to articulate my own thoughts at the moment! Cheers, laurie<div><div><div>On Jul 12, 2013, at 10:18 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@BTINTERNET.COM">stuart.n.clarke@BTINTERNET.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<td style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm" height="829" valign="top" align="left"><p class="Style1" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element: frame; mso-element-frame-width: 287.3pt; mso-element-frame-height: 497.15pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: page; mso-element-left: 125.25pt; mso-element-top: .2pt; mso-height-rule: exactly"> </p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"><font face="Times New Roman">Theorists are still in triumphalist mode, cocky,
bandwagoning along, a surging band, confident in job security and
intellectual prestige – THES</font></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></span></i> </div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"><strong>Get
to the staff-graduate seminar last night?</strong> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.15pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Oh
yeah. Very tasty.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.55pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Really?</strong></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.25pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">We
had this bleeder from some old and ancient university talking about
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.75pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">what
he called 'the incidence of poverty in North-East
England'.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.4pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Not another toss-pot
empiricist?</strong></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.35pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Right
down to the charts and correlations. </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.35pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.7pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"><strong>So
you let him have some?</strong></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.35pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Oh
yeah. Soon as it was question time, up jumps Big Stan and asks
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.45pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">how
he managed to speak for a whole hour about power in the
post</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.4pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">modern
world without one mention of Foucault.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.25pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Nice one</strong></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">And
when he said he couldn't see what Foucault had to do with the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.3pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">'basic
facts of poverty', Knuckles Paul comes straight in with 'what </span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">precisely
do you mean by "basic"? How "basic" is "basic"? Is it more </span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.4pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">"basic"
than "fundamental"'?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.6pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Gave him a real going over
then?</strong></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.4pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Not
half. He started blustering about ‘basic' having something to do
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">with
minimal nutritional standards as laid down by some agency or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.3pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">other.
But absolutely no critical analysis.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.35pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Essential crap.</strong></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.3pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Basically.
And so bang on cue up gets Mad Ralph and smacks him </span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.75pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">round
the head with a Derridean metaphysics of presence. </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.75pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us"></span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.4pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Ooh
- </span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.55pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Aah
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.4pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">-
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.8pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Derri
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.4pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">-
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.8pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Dah!</span></strong></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.7pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Right
on. And then while he's still picking himself up from that </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">one, Razor
Kathy nips in sharpish with her usual trope on <span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.75pt">Kristevan
heterogeneity.</span></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><span>And it's all over </span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.55pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">bar
the shouting?</span></strong></font></div>
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yeah. A vote of thanks from the chairperson. Brief round of
ap</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.35pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">plause.
And then our lot all go down the boozer for some brand name
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.15pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">lager
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</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong>of
academic evening then?</strong> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 122.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 13.2pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.15pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">You
could say that.</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 122.4pt 0pt 0cm; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.2pt; mso-element: frame; mso-element-frame-width: 287.3pt; mso-element-frame-height: 497.15pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: page; mso-element-left: 125.25pt; mso-element-top: .2pt; mso-height-rule: exactly"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.15pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"></span></font> </p><div style="margin: 0cm 122.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 13.2pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.15pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">(Laurie
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