I just read Raymond Williams's entry in _Keywords_ -- I think I like bürgerlich as a term of abuse better than bourgeois -- all those MacDonald's in the suburbs.  Seriously, William's point about the necessity of continuing to have to use the awkward term for class/economic analysis makes sense. But Williams points out its imprecision as commonly used by "unestablished artists, writers and thinkers" -- and I would still argue that it should be ditched in that regard.

David Latane

From: cris cheek <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: 'Day' by Kent Johnson
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Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 3:08 PM

somebody asked about what the book is actually "like"

well it's pretty much exactly "like" Kenneth Goldsmith's "Day"

excepting that the name on the cover is "Kent Johnson"

and not "Kenneth Goldsmith"



that's the point


xx


cris