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Having read this I think we should all give a minutes silence for those in
Ireland who suffer the day to day encounters of this type of patriachy.

Rod McPherson
Massey University
New Zealand

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>Joanna: I think Adorno said as much in an essay entitled 'Subject,
>Object'.  A very intersting source on a socially constructed
>objectivity is Helen Longino. In her book, _Science as Social
>Knowledge_, she shows in a very rigorious way how objectivity can
>incorporate a great deal of subjectivity, and still come up with lots
>of facts.
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>Karl: Does she? How wonderful. Aren't you the clever boots to have
>spotted this?
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>Joannna: While I think that Longino bases her reading of Foucault too
>much on what Dreyfus and Rabinow have to say, he project seems to be
>very friendly to his kind of critique.
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>Karl: So what!
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>Joanna: Just trying to stay on the topic and avoid those pesky
>ad hominem attacks, as 'Karl' has so patiently advised.
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>Karl: Perhaps you ought to stick to the latter since it merely
>requires neanderthal intellectual skills.
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>                                       'TIS ME  Karl Carlile
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>                              Yours etc.,
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>                              Yours etc.,
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