university contradictions . . .
oz (craig.king@cwcom.net)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:54:52 +0100
hello . . .
> > All theorizing aside, western culture isn't really prepared for the
> > death of the author. I certainly am not, and I don't think anybody I
> > know is.
>
> Really? Within my university it tends to be seen as fact; as having passed
> through
there was one thing that always bothered me about university. the
problem i had (and i wonder if this was merely in england) was that
many, if not most, of the lit. lecturers held close to marxism, or at
least its theory. not many were commited but there was a political
correctness there in its dominance. i always wondered just how
one could reconcile a centralised politics with the diversified
freedoms of the death of the author. it all seemed connected and
i'm curious if anyone else noticed the same. or perhaps it's just
that english academic austere socialist thing. there is a great
degree of abstraction in academia. i liked that for a year but
realised there was a hell of a disparity between campus and world,
and the former tended to think that was the problem of the world
rather than the other way around. ideal and practice, problems of
application . . .
not everone, i must say that, but enough to cause me to frown and
go hmmm . . .
craig king