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Article: Reading, raiding, and anodyne eclecticism: word without world.(Essays)
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- The Antioch Review
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- January 1, 2004
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"There's only one real, gut-level sincerity: that as readers we need only what absolutely had to be written, that as writers we must write only what absolutely has to be written. The question--Does this need to be written?--is an ethical one."
--Rachel Blau DuPlessis
What would successful assimilation look like, if "successful" were to mean both ethical in its writing and ethically enlarging in its reading?
I ask that from my own agreement with, my own assimilation of, Pierre Bourdieu, whom surely I will misrepresent here more egregiously than a recent Iowa crew "mis-re-presents" Michael Palmer or, for that matter, their successors ...