> Just a footnote in response to Angel's sympathetic question about
> our own standpoints for our work: in the first chapter of my new
> book (_Textual Politics_), having raised this issue, I devote a
> section to describing something of my own standpoint and social
> positioning. This is certainly not customary in serious academic,
> especially theoretical, work, and so far the responses I've
> received have been very positive. That section was deliberately
> minimal, an initial experiment. We need to develop appropriate
> genres and intellectual conventions for what should be said,
> how, where, and how should it be integrated into the larger
> arguments of our work. Too often it is only late in people's
> careers, or posthumously, that we get genres of self-revelation
> that help us understand how inseparable a life and its works
> are. Maybe every dissertation should include this dimension?
> Maybe we should all periodically write (for our own good)
> reflective and reflexive pieces analyzing the course of our
> research and what we can discern about its connections with
> the origins, positionings, and trajectory of our life. JAY.
>
>
> JAY LEMKE.
> City University of New York.
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