[csaa-forum] But wait, there's more

[Catharine Lumby]

Thanks for the suggestions on the Bolt- sporting personality analogy. I 
think Jane is totally on the money about Sam Newman. I was thinking 
Lleyton because Bolt runs on hostility and, from where I sit at least, 
he seems to be obsessed with making strange insulting gestures to  
invisible enemies.

I figure there's got to be a way to respond to the mindbending hostility 
that comes off the neocon agenda without buying into it. Making silly 
comparisons is my form of distraction at the moment.

But to get serious about it - it is incredibly depressing to have the 
work we all do - academic or applied - misrepresented so publicly. I see 
this happening to people in the humanities all the time. The problem 
isnt that someone is  disagreeing - it's that far too much commentary is 
animated by bad faith, professional jealousy or plain ideological 
warfare. Hence my pro athlete analogy - it's as if the whole thing is a 
game. But then that shows exactly how much I *really* know about footy - 
diddly squat obviously!!




Danny Butt wrote:

>On 2/28/05 1:53 PM, "Jane Armstrong" <J.N.Armstrong at exchange.curtin.edu.au>
>wrote:
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>>Sam Newman - nuff said
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>Touché - I thought of Fatty Vautin, but wasn't sure if it was cool to be
>mentioning League players given Catharine's inside work there :) [which is,
>btw, a very cool example of academic praxis, and maybe writing columns in
>the Australian can get you opportunities like this, if so go for it.]
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>Anyway, make sure y'all catch the Saccharin Metric Guide to the Humanities,
>which contains a number of very useful insights on this thread:
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>http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~Mccrea/archives/2005/02/the_saccharin_m.html
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