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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