{"id":57,"date":"2003-04-22T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2005-02-04T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T09:58:41","slug":"sad-day-for-research-that-promises-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/22\/sad-day-for-research-that-promises-change\/","title":{"rendered":"sad day for research that promises change"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn’t Matter.<\/i>
\nCould this<\/a>
\npossibly<\/i> be for real? (need free subscription) I know we are in dire straights
\nand all, and we are yet again (thanks Mr. Bush) looking for simplified "answers"
\ninstead of posing good questions, but how could big names like Henry Louis Gates
\nJr., Homi Bhabha, Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson deny any possible value to
\nthe critique of modern society through a re-reading of current events and history?
\nHow can a world that only believes in direct<\/i> relationships wade through
\nthe sea of metaphorized and reified "evil" with only Noam Chomsky at
\nthe helm? "Theory never directly liberated anyone," to paraphrase the
\narticle,<\/a> but what and who does? Where does resistance come from? What kinds
\nof resistance are there, and how do we define them? In what space are we able
\nto reclaim identity? Language, language, language & language. Conversely,
\nhow do empires, such as the US, justify their wars? You got it. (Ridiculous binary
\nsystems, constructed through the misuse of) Language. Sigh.
\nSo on the sad day that President Bush teaches our children that shooting first
\nand talking later is a means to "solve" any given "problem,"
\nour best thinkers stop talking altogether? This course leaves no room for discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn’t Matter. Could this possibly be for real? (need free subscription) I know we are in dire straights and all, and we are yet again (thanks Mr. Bush) looking for simplified "answers" instead of posing good questions, but how could big names like Henry Louis Gates Jr., Homi Bhabha, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5637,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/16\/attempts-at-a-unified-theory-sheila-held-at-green-gallery-milwaukee\/","url_meta":{"origin":57,"position":0},"title":"Review: Attempts at a Unified Theory, Sheila Held at Green Gallery, Milwaukee","author":"nathaniel","date":"16 October 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I first met Sheila Held at a panel presentation I gave in 2014, and she invited me to her studio \/ home in Wauwatosa for dinner shortly thereafter. 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