Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
Deconstruction and Deindustrialization

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Goldner, Loren

Year Published:  2001   First Published:  2001
Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter
Cx Number:  CX7937

We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.

Subject Headings

• Bourgeois Ideology
• Capitalism
• Cultural Studies
• Deconstruction
• Dialectics
• Existentialism
• Hegel. G.W.F.
• Humanism
• Identity Politics
• Ideology
• Intellectuals
• Left, The
• Marx, Karl
• Marxism
• Metaphysics
• Nazi History
• Neoconservativism
• Nihilism
• Philosophy
• Political Economy
• Radicalism
• Working Class