Hi Andrej,

what do you really want to say with your message? I guess you don´t want to
prove that the left can´t laugh? ... why care about "tiny problems" -- just
laugh about trunk problems; they don´t harm anybody.

Take care,

Frank
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>Von: Andrej Grubacic <[log in to unmask]>
>An: [log in to unmask]
>Betreff: Re: [CHOMSKY] fwd:death to post modernism?
>Datum: Mon, 3. Apr 2000 8:20 Uhr
>

>There is only one tiny problem  with this, otherwise excellent joke:
>Foucault and Bourdieu as postmodernist???
>Bourdieu would felt this as an insult and poor Foucault died before
>postmodernist had the chance of ruining (post):) structuralism.
>Cheers,
>                           Andrej
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dr. Frank Beckmann <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 3. april 2000 8:42
>Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] fwd:death to post modernism?
>
>
>>This is great, excellent -- I think this might even be a possible program
>>for a conference on "zoo-semiotics". Thank you for the joke -- there is not
>>much reason to laugh nowadays.
>>
>>Best, Frank
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>>>Von: frank scott <[log in to unmask]>
>>>An: [log in to unmask]
>>>Betreff: [CHOMSKY] fwd:death to post modernism?
>>>Datum: Mon, 3. Apr 2000 1:51 Uhr
>>>
>>
>>>who says the left can't laugh? wonderful stuff from a marxist
>>>list....enjoy...
>>>fs
>>>
>>>
>>>                  THE ELEPHANT AND CULTURAL STUDIES
>>>
>>> 8:00 - Coffee and Tea
>>> THE ELEPHANT AS "PHYSICAL" OTHER:
>>>          Does the Elephant Exist? Zoological Hegemony vs. Cultural
>>>Fabrication.
>>>          Pachyderm "Evolution": Eurochronicities and Eurocentric
>>>Linearity in the Late (Post)Modern Zoological Script.
>>>          Tracking the Elephant Through Texts: Western Visuality vs.
>>>Olfactory Perception.
>>>
>>> 9:30
>>> THE ELEPHANT AS THEORETICAL OTHER:
>>>          Tusk and Text: Reading the Elephant.
>>>          Straddling Temporalitites: Evolving Feminist Theory and the
>>>Grey female.
>>>          Elephant Positionalities: The (Re)articulation of Class, Race,
>>>and Trunk Typology.
>>>
>>> 11:00
>>> THE ELEPHANT IN PACHYDERMOCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE:
>>>          Recuperating Subjectivities: Conversations With An Elephant.
>>>          The Mouse and the Elephant: The Ambiguities of Hegemonicity.
>>>          Crashing Through the Forest: Valorizing the Self among
>>>Elephantine Others.
>>>          Voices and Trumpets: Heteroglossia and Polyphony.
>>>
>>>
>>> 12:30 - Lunch
>>>
>>> THE ELEPHANT: INTERROGATING MULTI-CULTURAL RHETORICITIES:
>>>          The Elephant: Cyborg, Ethnicity, or "Species"?
>>>          (E)(L)(E)(P)(H)(A)(N)(T)? What's That?: Exploitation and the
>>>Rhetorical Strategies of Denial in Thai Forestry       Camps
>>>          Viceroy-on-Elephant or Elephant-on-Viceroy? Accidents and the
>>>Uncertainties of Domination in some Durbars of the Late British Raj.
>>>
>>> 1:00
>>> THE ELEPHANT AS EUROCENTRIC OBJECT:
>>>          The Elephant and the Lion: The Metaphoricity of Binarity in
>>>Early Medieval Texts.
>>>          "Hunting the Beloved Other": The Elephant as Paradigmatic
>>>Problematic of Conservationist Conversations in Theodore Roosevelt's
>>>African Memoirs.
>>>          Garage Sales and Elephants: A Dialogue of Contested Spaces.
>>>
>>> 2:30
>>> THE ELEPHANT AS (POST)MODERNIST CONSTRICTION:
>>>          Hong Kong Ivory Traders: An Enabling Proposition in Tusk
>>>Commodification.
>>>          (Ele)phant and Pachy(derm): The Parenthetics of Typesetting
>>>Axiomatics.
>>>          Reading the Elephant and Eating the Bible: Christianity and
>>>the Post-Modernist Dilemma in Tropical   Pachydermophagy.
>>>
>>> 4:00 Tea & Cookies
>>> THE ELEPHANT AS LATE POSTMODERNIST CONSTRUCTION:
>>>         Post-Modern, (Post)Modern, or Postcontemporary Elephant?
>>>Epistemic Privileging and Discursive Spaces in MLA Debates.
>>>         Wild Elephant, Tamed Elephant, Zoo-Confined Elephant, Extinct
>>>Elephant:
>>> Alternative Modernities for a Culturally-Constructed Ani(male).
>>>          Elephant Ears: Symbolic Excess in (Post)Nouvelle Pastry
>>>Culture.
>>>          Situating the Paradigmatic Other: The Elephant in Weight-Loss
>>>Discourse.
>>>
>>> 5:30
>>> CONCLUSION - THE EXPISTEMIC MOMENT:
>>>          "Mon Dieu, Bourdieu!" "Foucault yourself!": Bad Temper and
>>>Cultural Enunciations in Academic Career-construction.
>>>
>>> 8:00 Reception and Dance