On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, ARWNY wrote:

> The following was found on an e-mail list whose mission is to discuss the
> activity of being on an e-mail list. Recursive, yes. My kind of place!

Heh!  I would expect no less.

> Ryotard seems to insist on the irreconcilability and incommensurability of
> different genres of discourse, and that only local and context-specific
> criteria of validity can be formulated (this last bit is a 'politically'
> important part of his approach and one that has been significant in
> postmodernist discourse beyond 'language games')

Wow.

> Perhaps this is where the "polytheism of values" in which no one domain of
> discourse and knowledge is privileged over others, and the politics of the
> "temporary contract" (things he refers to elsewhere) come in?

Gee!

I'm getting ready to run for the state legislature next year, and my
announcement letter (which should arrive in many Ann Arbor postal
mailboxes today) promises a no-buzzwords platform.  This is partly to twit
my leading opponent, who indulges in lines like "empowerment of families"
and "paradigm shift."

I wish I could get her in touch with whoever wrote the above, so she could
learn from a real master.  Polytheism of values in postmodernist discourse
indeed!

                         Larry Kestenbaum