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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi there<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Whilst I think it’s probably a bit
misguided to attack an academic conference for its language, this article doesn’t
even look ‘anti-theory’ to me. I think the main point she’s
trying to make is that we should communicate our ideas in ways that ‘the
mainstream’ can understand, and in forums where ‘the mainstream’
gets to hear them. After all, our ideas need to be ‘out there’ to
make a difference. This, at least, seems a valid point to me.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tanja Schwalm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>PhD student<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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[mailto:csaa-forum-bounces@lists.cdu.edu.au] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Mark Gibson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, 28 July 2006 2:27
p.m.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [csaa-forum] Another
attack on CS in the Oz</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi Amanda,<br>
<br>
Is this one ‘anti-left’? Looks to me more like an attempt to claim
the position of the ‘true left’ against a current, as Emma
Dawson would have it ‘degraded’, academic form. She’s
certainly ‘anti-theory’, but I wonder whether a different kind of
response is called for in cases like these than to a Bolt or Windschuttle. It
is not nice being attacked in public, but isn’t this really someone we
should be trying to talk around, find common ground with ...?<br>
<br>
- Mg<br>
<br>
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