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Frankly, Statto, I'm very surprised by your response. Did you read the thread in its entirety? First of all, the words "slut" and "whore" are not synonymous, as has been discussed above in some detail. Second, the study of linguistic usage and its semantic fields, effects, and political...

Closing the thread at this juncture and in response to this silly post would prevent previous (and future) posters from responding, which I for one would consider unfortunate and mistaken. Especially given the terms in which hmlt has made his request, which are bogus in their depths.

In fact, I'd suggest that we make this thread a sticky: it's very revealing, illustrative, and instructive on a wide range of points.

I for one will be perfectly happy simply to quote your posts again, as their clarity and absurdity speak well for themselves.

Situations in which discrimated-against/oppressed communities actively re-appropriate and re-direct the language of the discriminator/oppressor in order to repurpose that language for liberational goals is a fairly well attested anthropological phenomenon/strategy and one that is widely...

Kudos to Statto for keeping up the good work as always! Looking forward to it :excited grin: And hoping that others will take an interest (runs off to sign up for Macc fanclub prez)

With all due respect, nothing that you say here changes my mind. But I'll let the posts in the thread speak for themselves, I'm perfectly happy with readers thinking whatever they like about what I've said.

So hmlt is the judge of who's "worth of being a woman," that's interesting. As my original post made clear, I wasn't defending any politician, I was objecting to the use of sexist language, an objection I would be more than happy to reiterate repeatedly in the face of heroesandvillians' "oh...

A post that makes my point so clearly it's well worth quoting again in full.

For someone so attentive to racist and classist statements on the forum, your use of such a gender-specific and openly sexist term as "slut" to apply to any woman, no matter what their political positions may be, strikes me as highly problematic at best. I have other words for how I would...

I've sent out some emails, will let you know if anything comes together. Could definitely assist passage from Rochester to New Hampshire tho :D Will let you know by PM what I find out, if anything works out activity-wise, etc etc.

Great news, looking forward to it ! Still enjoying Grande Illusions too ...

Dan, do you have a general map/itinerary lined up, state by state or some such? I looked on the blog for one but didn't find ... if you're planning to be in upstate ny or midwest (missouri) i'd be able to put you in touch with people who'd be pretty interesting to talk to for this kind of thing...

Really, really interesting piece, thx for taking the time to transcribe it. A person can really glean a lot from that conversation, not only from the explicit details/venues/tunes/DJs/genre labels (totally fascinating info there), but from the way that they're discussing everything, certain...

Thanks nomos, very kind of you !

Ah yes very good point! - my own myopia showing through there, i.e., neglecting the importance of the original performative gesture, the break with tradition ... :o :D

I was curious about this question, wasn't sure if you were asking for a real comparison or if you were suggesting that the US guitar+drum bands at the time were sub-par? You also mentioned drummers: what's your view, Buick (or anyone else), on the state of the art of guitar+drum ensemble...

Yes you're absolutely right, that's his standard m.o. and has been for a very long time (flat rate, no points, etc) but I don't think that it was quite as simple as that in all cases (e.g. Bush), and I have some difficulty believing that he has always recorded everyone who asked him. At the...

Actually I'd guess that Habermas is very well apprised of recent Bush press conferences and I'd bet one hundred german marks that he would be able to diagnose and critique them at long, long length. :D One thing maybe to keep in mind about Habermas is that his fundamental questions, tasks...

Yep, it's definitely true that Derrida's gone out of fashion, there's no question about it, though it makes me feel a bit icky talking about intellectual 'fashions' given how quickly they mutate. Part of the shift away from Derrida is the feeling that 'it's difficult to take deconstruction any...