Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eAG5P9924196; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 00:25:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 00:25:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <000501c04f8e$8c598040$42b18dcf@ncia.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: woods@ncia.net To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3269] Re: weird literacy news of the week (possibly of the millennium): X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 952 Lines: 24 Kate Gladstone wrote: > Did anyone see the article at > http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/10/30/violent_reading/index.html ) > > According to that news-piece, > some "experts" in the academic world now condemn reading to children as "a > violent act" ... That's what the article says, but look deeper into the identity of the "expert" and you find Peggy Kamuf, who in other writings, explores Deconstruction, defined by Benjamin Graves of Brown University as follows: Deconstruction, a critical practice introduced by French philosopher and critic Jacques Derrida, ostensibly serves to interrogate the assumptions of Western thought by reversing or displacing the hierarchical "binary oppositions" that provide its foundation. The intentions of Kamuf may have been misunderstood by the writer of the article. I think we have nothing to worry about, unless, of course, we choose to shake our assumptions about reading to their very roots. Tom
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