Dale Smith weighs in against Houlihan at Skanky Possum. At least Smith addresses her actual arguments; but he does so in a hectoring, bullying manner. Interesting to me that he opposes Houlihan's strictures with an emphasis on the holistic post- or trans- verbal experience of modernity : parallels the issues I raised in previous post today (ie., can criticism happen at all, in a culture of holistic-autonomous gushtalts?).