[csaa-forum] RE: tone of public discourse,

[Danny Butt]

Hi Jonathan

1) I'm sorry if my post offended you, or anyone else. I am happy to retract
it, have it removed from the archives and not post such things again. I have
no wish to create horror. Some people enjoyed it, but I realise that there's
no accounting for taste.

2) I don't think it makes sense to call this forum "edited", or "formal",
going by previous discussions, but the list administrators may want to
correct this.

3) I do understand the difference between academic cultural studies
methodologies and other forms of writing and argument - I am a professional
researcher and consultant. I don't list my e-mails in my publications
history. I made no "pretense of academic rigour". You can contact me
*personally* within 24 hours to retract the assertion to our professional
community that I don't know what research is, or I will be calling my lawyer
to initiate defamation proceedings. I believe he has represented our subject
himself, and as a lawyer he is a mongrel without compassion, I tell you.
Hates academics particularly.

4) If you recall my follow-up, I suggested that the post was "satirical" in
intent. 

Regards,

Danny

ps - You don't really have to contact me, I was just trying out a more
formal tone. 


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On 4/1/05 4:29 PM, "Jonathan MARSHALL" <jonathan.marshall at ecu.edu.au> wrote:

> RE: tone of public discourse, Windshuttle et al csaa-forum Digest, Vol 12,
> Issue 1
>  
>  
> Dear colleagues
>  
> Again I find myself more than somewhat alarmed by the nature on content of the
> discourse occuring within this forum. Possibly I am misunderstanding the
> purpose of this forum and what it is that we in cultural studies and history
> can collectively agree upon. As I recall however, one of the things that
> started this debate was the attack on cultural studies by those ill informed
> individuals who claimed it was not a proper, formal academic discourse with
> rigorous standards of accuracy and debate.
>  
> If we can in fact collectively agree that cultural studies IS a proper
> academic study, I am not only surprised by Danny Butt's email, but I am very
> disappointed that the editors of this forum have allowed it to be republished.
> To discus on line in a formal academic newsgroup the sexual proclivities of a
> fellow academic whose ideas and practice we happen to disagree with is,
> frankly, extremely offensive and does a great disservice to us as academics,
> cultural studies as a discipline and this email group as a forum for rational
> academic debate and the sharing of ideas.
>