List "politics"

[R.Gancie/C.Parcelli]

<Associated Press is a minor and temporary nuisance>

They'd be interested to hear this. I'm certain they thought of themselves as a
major, 125 year old nuisance. Of course, in the pond of the Frankfurt list one
can aspire to be no more than a 'minor' nuisance. CP

Ralph Dumain wrote:

> 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.