I'm skeptical of this achievement. Certainly the blind spot of liberal equality is exposed by post-prefixers' focus on marginality, but how much, really, been added to the earlier Marxist, feminist, anti-imperialist etc. appreciations of social inequality/complexity (the better versions; I'm not thinking of the Stalinist types)?
My sense is that, politically, post-prefixism has been one step forward and two steps back. The emphasis on difference tends to result in abstention over what is common. What is a good example of post-prefixism yielding politically richer mixtures of difference and commonality than we knew of before? Bill Burgess > >Can someone name the main achievement of one author who has been dubbed >"post-structuralist"? It is much better to talk about one specific thing than >to go on and on about abstractions such as "post-structuralism." > >Achievement? Well, I think that the popularization of the value of >"marginality" has something to do with post-structuralism. And, though I don't >give litcritters credit for it, our awareness of the way that gender, ability, >race, sexual orientation, etc. have been meaningfully, materially excluded >from consideration of "rights" discourse has something to do with >poststructuralism. Or were you thinking achievement like book titles? > >Christian
