Re: <nettime> The insult of the 1 percent: "Art-history majors"

Keith Sanborn on Sun, 6 May 2012 22:02:10 +0200 (CEST)

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Re: <nettime> The insult of the 1 percent: "Art-history majors"

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Subject: Re: <nettime> The insult of the 1 percent: "Art-history majors"
From: Keith Sanborn <mrzero@panix.com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 11:21:43 -0400
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The phrase "Let's be honest" has strong echoes of what the relatively non-political Barthes says about "Let's be frank…": it opens the door to stupidity or worse: to the naturalization of opinion as fact, I.e. reification. 



On May 6, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Armin Medosch <armin@easynet.co.uk> wrote:


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