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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></P>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></I> </P>
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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></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.15pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Oh
yeah. Very tasty.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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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></P>
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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></P>
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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></P>
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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></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-US
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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></P>
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align=left><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></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><STRONG>Nice one</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=left><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></P>
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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></P>
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align=left><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></P>
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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></P>
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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></P>
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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
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</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.8pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us">Dah!</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></P>
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align=left><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></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><STRONG><SPAN>And it's all over </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
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the shouting?</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.25pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Oh
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
and a few ironic choruses of 'Ere We Go.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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academic evening then?</STRONG> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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could say that.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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Taylor)</SPAN></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
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