http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/10/26/canadian-cultural-studies/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/10/26/canadian-cultural-studies/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Joost van Loon Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:15:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=353#comment-17 ha ha ha<br/>you cracked it again! ha ha ha
you cracked it again!

]]> http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/10/26/canadian-cultural-studies/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Anne Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:58:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=353#comment-15 I think you raise an excellent point regarding the tacit acceptance of transgression, or what I sometimes refer to as the privileging of the marginal. (It reminds me of the current trend to avoid technological determinism by taking a rather inflexible humanist position glossed as being "user-centred".) And frankly, I find the question of whether we would want to live next to a crack house, or have a prostitute daughter, to be far more transgressive than the too-often patronising attempt to give voice and visibility to "crack whores". I think you raise an excellent point regarding the tacit acceptance of transgression, or what I sometimes refer to as the privileging of the marginal. (It reminds me of the current trend to avoid technological determinism by taking a rather inflexible humanist position glossed as being “user-centred”.) And frankly, I find the question of whether we would want to live next to a crack house, or have a prostitute daughter, to be far more transgressive than the too-often patronising attempt to give voice and visibility to “crack whores”.

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