On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Gedsudski wrote:
: Jim, it may be accurate that most critics are not card carrying members of
: the deconstructionist camp. If so, this makes it all the more apparent how
: forgettable their contributions are. Wasn't deconstructionism and the
: pscyhoanalytic claptrap by the like of Lacan the literary theories of the
: moment, many moons ago?
A change in what's current in any given field need not say anything about
the forgettableness of what came before. You're suggesting that hogwash
critics A, B, and C were once "in," and that now they're "out," on account
of someone "deciding" that they were no longer sufficiently irreverant or
upsetting or offputting, or so forth. That's silly.
Bad-taste-in-the-mouth stuff. Does anyone on this list genuinely believe
that frontiers of thought in any humanities field would be so capricious?
Matt
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