Greetings Clare/all:
It's rare that one finds such an absurd rendering of the current state of
literary discourse, as one does the this published essay: "Giles Auty: Top
Marx for our educators." Michel Foucault as a purveyor of illiteracy? The
ills of the educated world suffered at the hands of an indicted
postmodernism? The gem of truth to be found in this steaming pile of
textual malarkey is the good fortune that Mr. Auty's claims are so easily
discredited so as to render his essay meaningless in the most postmodern
way: by virtue of its neoconservative and mass-produced, reactionary
ignorance.
NRIII
Nicholas Ruiz III
ABD/GTA
Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities
--Florida State University--
Editor, Kritikos
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~nr03/
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From: foucault-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:foucault-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Clare O'Farrell
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:54 AM
To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Foucault-L] media rant about Foucault
Dear Foucault listers
I thought you might be interested in seeing this extremely virulent
attack on Foucault in today's "The Australian" describing him as the
evil genius behind postmodernism and thus Marxism (!) and "a
posthumous arbiter in the way our children and university students
are taught"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18874034-601,00.html
(article pasted below)
I find the increasing incidence of these kind of rabid and
uninformed right wing rants in the Western press very disturbing. on
the front page of the same newspaper the prime minister of Australia
was criticising "postmodern" influences on the Australian English
curriculum
--
Clare
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Clare O'Farrell
email: c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx
website: http://www.michel-foucault.com
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It's rare that one finds such an absurd rendering of the current state of
literary discourse, as one does the this published essay: "Giles Auty: Top
Marx for our educators." Michel Foucault as a purveyor of illiteracy? The
ills of the educated world suffered at the hands of an indicted
postmodernism? The gem of truth to be found in this steaming pile of
textual malarkey is the good fortune that Mr. Auty's claims are so easily
discredited so as to render his essay meaningless in the most postmodern
way: by virtue of its neoconservative and mass-produced, reactionary
ignorance.
NRIII
Nicholas Ruiz III
ABD/GTA
Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities
--Florida State University--
Editor, Kritikos
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~nr03/
-----Original Message-----
From: foucault-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:foucault-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Clare O'Farrell
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:54 AM
To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Foucault-L] media rant about Foucault
Dear Foucault listers
I thought you might be interested in seeing this extremely virulent
attack on Foucault in today's "The Australian" describing him as the
evil genius behind postmodernism and thus Marxism (!) and "a
posthumous arbiter in the way our children and university students
are taught"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18874034-601,00.html
(article pasted below)
I find the increasing incidence of these kind of rabid and
uninformed right wing rants in the Western press very disturbing. on
the front page of the same newspaper the prime minister of Australia
was criticising "postmodern" influences on the Australian English
curriculum
--
Clare
************************************************
Clare O'Farrell
email: c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx
website: http://www.michel-foucault.com
************************************************
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