List "politics"

[Ralph Dumain]

Interesting how spineless academic piss-ants always run and hide, treating 
every little thing as a big crisis.  Also, conflating confused, mediocre, 
footnote-whoring jargonic masturbation with real intellectual 
work.  Associated Press is a minor and temporary nuisance caused by the 
fact that the Ass in charge has no real ideas or interest in communication 
outside of his clever little squibs.  People like you are much worse, as 
you crowd the intellectual commons with cheap intellectual drivel with no 
substance, and you think there is nothing wrong with that.

When I find time in a few days, I want to write up my notes on the recent 
Adorno program I mentioned.

At 06:11 AM 4/1/2003 +0000, matthew piscioneri wrote:

>Over the last 12 months the Habermas List on the Spoons Collective has had 
>to face some of the issues we are encountering at present on the FS List. 
>Sadly, there the "bad" talk eventually drove out the "good" talk, and now 
>this list is only just functioning. Selfishly, as a postgraduate student 
>who simply couldn't have progressed my research project without the Spoons 
>Habermas list as a sounding board, I regret that a similar process appears 
>to be gathering momentum here on the FS list.
>
>What happened at the Habermas list was that an alternative "more 
>scholarly" venue was set up and is fairly but strongly moderated. I have 
>come to regard the Spoons List as a more informal venue for wide ranging 
>discussions and exchanges - almost akin to a reading group at the pub.
>
>Previous to the Ass.Press interruption, the standard of discussion which 
>suddenly emerged two weeks ago was exciting. So I want to suggest that an 
>alternative venue be sought in which the boring, dishonest, 
>class-traitorous, foot note whoring pseudo academics can theorize to their 
>hearts content.
>
>Any thoughts,
>
>MattP.