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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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!!<br>
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Danny Butt wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 2/28/05 1:53 PM, "Jane Armstrong" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:J.N.Armstrong@exchange.curtin.edu.au"><J.N.Armstrong@exchange.curtin.edu.au></a>
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<pre wrap="">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.]
Anyway, make sure y'all catch the Saccharin Metric Guide to the Humanities,
which contains a number of very useful insights on this thread:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~Mccrea/archives/2005/02/the_saccharin_m.html">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~Mccrea/archives/2005/02/the_saccharin_m.html</a>
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