Your "joke", "jon", is v.good and i "think" you are probably "right" that what the list really needed was a shift towards discussing critical onanism...however, maybe we ought to think for a short moment about the metaphor you deploy...namely that of masturbation...v.incisive - rare that we spot the "wankiness" within our midst.
The metaphorical use of the terms masturbation, onanism and wanking have, of course, long before this morning, reached the point of near-literalism - i.e. death. and, further, remain tied up with difficult to sustain notions that masturbation is in some sense a bad "thing".
what's more, truth be told, i always found bourdieu a bit dry and distracting...
and, in vaguely sinister style, that that was what foucault wanted me to do...
and, crit-geogers, when you have finished...just throw the biscuit away ;-)
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jon Cloke" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:57:23 +0000
>Given the standard of comment and subject matter from the >participants on this list, shouldn't the name be changed >from 'Critical' to 'Intensive Care Geography Forum'?
>
>Ta-ta,
>
>Jon xx
>
>
>>From: Shirley Crabtree <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: Shirley Crabtree <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: "things" that make you go "hmmmmmmm"
>>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:19:47 -0400
>>
>> >I knew I'd read it somewhere...
>> >
>> >There are lots of connections between Lewis Carroll and >Douglas Adams,
>>y'know, like there fondness for the number 42
>> >(desparate attempt here to recover some intellectual gravitas -> doomed
>>to failure I know...)
>>
>>what do you mean by your use of the word _recover_??
>>
>>and, anyhow, the possible or the not possible can only function within
>>particular systems of meaning or action. nothing is impossible. although,
>>saying that, i guess confusing lewis carroll and douglas adams is one of
>>the most implausible things I ever saw...
>>
>>
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