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From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:49:18 -0400
Joanna L. Crosby wrote:
>I am looking at the way people like Judith Butler have used Foucaultian
>critique to pursue questions of subjectification and the political
>circumstances that arise. I don't know that this line of inquiry is
>possible without
>Marx, or the post-marxist work of the Frankfurt School, (Adorno & Habermas
>in particular), but I don't think that I can be reduced to Marx or
>exhausted through a Marxian vocabulary.
No, but who expected it would be? Butler can be very compelling on subject
formation, but her complete blindness to class and economic power in
subject formation; money forms large chunks of us, no?
Doug