Tenured or not, what "really matters" is that the meaning of "loser",
mediocrity" and hypocrite" are clear within the text. In any case, your
"puzzling" over my ethics seems to be far more gurly-gurl than relevant to any
discussion about either CL-S or aesthetics.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:29
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Subject: Re: rhythm and flow
i’m
puzzled by an ethics that precludes calling anyone a “loser” but permits [even
encourages] such epithets as “mediocre” or “hypocrite” . . . of course that
should come as no surprise since as a tenured academic i clearly can’t be
counted on to understand anything that really
matters
mike
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I've
never called anyone a "loser" and I never intend to. This is because its usage
intends upon judging others by the speaker's own standards:
intellectual fascism at its worse.
Although
I'm not in academia, I can still accept your vexations over the peer process
as true. This is because peer processing for tenure obviously
suggests the genre of politics and mediocrity that all real art opposes by its
nature.
I've
tried to explain the CL-S issue as one that's fundamentally different than
that of, say, Pollock being judged by those for whom Bottacelli is the bottom
line. CL-S wanted to be accepted as the Great Institutional Theoretician;
and it was only when his work was derided by those from whom he sought
approval did he (and his publisher) do a re-make as a rebel intellectual.
This,
of course, is hypocrisy.
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