March 02, 2005
Duplicity
Deluze and his heir Negri reject dialectics. Looking for a synthesis through negation, in their view, undermines the power of negation.
The alternative they offer is a theory of duplicity. Challenges to the social order of capital, they insist, must occur at two levels simultaneously, a micropolitics which poses itself "at the same level of totality" (negri) as the political machinery of capital.
They place there hopes, here, on a Nietchian "leap" into power, into a new future which draws the present into a new age. The task of the intellectual, in their worldview, is to write from this future, to construct the present as the past of a new time, the time of the rule of living labor.
Duplicity is, doubtless, the predominate form of conciousness. Alienation is, after all, the name of the game. Wracked by convulsions (see pinky paine), fractured, inching forward on broken limbs, there must be some escape from the social world of capitalism. We must play roles -- employable worker, eligible citizen -- which are contradictory, evolving, precarious.
But here is the key question: is precarity the source of social change, or contradiction?
If precarity -- the instability of capitalism -- is the enemy, or at least the situation to be resolved, from what do we draft our new social roles? Is it any wonder Negri, ultimately, comes only to the figure of the absolute radical, the militant.
If, on the other hand, contradiction internal to our social roles should cause us not to abandon them entirely, but seize upon the germ of the new within them -- find a way to live within them -- and by the venture itself destroy them.
A person who lives entirely within this time is bound to suffer greatly, but someone who tries to leave this time entirely will surely suffer also. They may fly for a time, but will find themselves, like Icarus, without adequate wings.
Negri says the roles of capitalism of already in total crises. Exodus -- remove the support of the multitude -- and it will collapse, only we will remain. I would rather repeat: "Reationary things are all the same -- they won't fall unless you hit them."
Deluze and Negri are imagining a frictionless universe -- this is just another dream of class reconciliation.
Posted by Sam at March 2, 2005 11:49 PM
vert strong post
i see the corner onnegri-tude
turned here once and for all
his patty b
mentalism
his chic boutique
jargon
his fantasy farce
of
"beam me forward scotty...
make it workerville usa 2150 "
what shit
good lines:
"We must play roles -- employable worker, eligible citizen -- which are contradictory,
evolving, precarious."
note;
contradictory
of course
means
the latter features
evolving and precarious
maybe with less coloration
"But here is the key question:
is precarity the source
of social change,
or contradiction?"
nice de-colorization kid...
"If, on the other hand,
contradiction internal
to our social roles..."
-----all relavent contros are internal-----
" ...should cause us
not to abandon them entirely..."
--- especially not intofuture utopic fantasy----
"... but seize upon
the germ of the new within them "
---viola!!!---------
"-- find a way to live within them --
and by the venture
itself destroy them"
--------- amen preach amen --------------
Posted by: pink at March 6, 2005 10:51 AM
for "destroy "
read sublate
hows that fer jargon........
Posted by: meat me at March 6, 2005 10:54 AM
EXCUSE THE DIS -LEX SPELLING OF VOILA
THE POST REALLY LANCES
THE TARGET'S BULLS EYE
Posted by: PINKY at March 6, 2005 02:06 PM
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