An epoch of difference: Hearing voices in teh nineties

According to Burbules, the 1942 program authors worried about "these times when so much of the world has apparently forsaken reason as its chief reliance for the effecting of a more humane social order. According to Derrida, "neutral" measures do not pre-exist but are invented with "every sentence, with no guarantee, no absolute guard-rail. The writing self has as its object not merely the "studied" object (namely, the researched person or taught student); in addition, one looks at two selves: the self that is writing, and who thereby exerts power over the subject as the "author"; and the representation of oneself engaged in self-reflection (for example, Roman writes self-reflexively about the self who engaged in research at the time the research was conducted, yet also about the self who is - at a later time - reflecting upon and writing about that research. [...]one has multiple levels of experience or text that one examines: the researched subject, the engaged researcher; and the writing self. The reader is also able to witness the author's self-reflexive relation to the text she is producing in 1993, more than a decade after the research was conducted. [...]on several levels, the politics of representation are highlighted how meaning and text are used to represent experience and knowledge in ways that raise real dilemmas.