Re: [-empyre-] following

[Danny Butt <db@dannybutt.net>]

To maybe approach the question differently now that "Baudrillard in  
relation to his peers" has come up:

The three "names" Ken mentions, as well as slipping easily into  
"unquestioned academic practices", have also been useful for self- 
consciously feminist work (though Deleuze less so, empirically).  
Something makes me think this is more than mere coincidence, and that  
there might be more than militancy or academicism that differentiates  
Baudrillard's work from the others - after all, feminism has a  
history of both militancy and exclusion from the academy.

Aliette, this enquiry has no relation to your question about Sontag's  
sexuality. I'm asking the question of the texts and the methodology,  
rather than the person behind them.

On 11/03/2007, at 3:17 PM, McKenzie Wark wrote:

> There was a politics to one's choice of theorist in the 80s in the
> Anglophone world, and perhaps still. What i admired about Lyotard and
> Baudrillard is that they were ex militants. This is not true of
> Foucault, Derrida or Deleuze. Its no accident that the attempt to keep
> a traditional scholarly practice at arms length collapses in the cases
> of Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze, who all now slip easily into
> unquestioned academic practices.



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