Comments on: Exile http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2004/12/03/exile/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christian McCrea http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2004/12/03/exile/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Christian McCrea Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/?p=89#comment-128 I believe there is something that can be reclaimed here in the 'academic as exile' concept. Exiles are often heroes, though as Barb Kruger tells us, maybe that's not what we need. Australia, after all, is bound up in the history of the exile. Maybe an absurd inverse nationalist impulse could mean academics become the tightrope walkers rather than the fence-sittings of public debate. (debate being only one example.) The memory is faint, but Agamben does this quite well in the beginning of Stanzas, on meloncholy, distance - although it is in the context of writing more than academia. PS - the last bit of the Fibreculture meeting was about some of the factors you brought up in the list lessons post. It was a good discussion, if brief. I believe there is something that can be reclaimed here in the ‘academic as exile’ concept. Exiles are often heroes, though as Barb Kruger tells us, maybe that’s not what we need.

Australia, after all, is bound up in the history of the exile. Maybe an absurd inverse nationalist impulse could mean academics become the tightrope walkers rather than the fence-sittings of public debate. (debate being only one example.)

The memory is faint, but Agamben does this quite well in the beginning of Stanzas, on meloncholy, distance – although it is in the context of writing more than academia.

PS – the last bit of the Fibreculture meeting was about some of the factors you brought up in the list lessons post. It was a good discussion, if brief.

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