From: "myk zeitlin" <myk-AT-zeitlin.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: AUT: Me and my interests
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:09:10 +0100


I'm not sure I want to engage with all the various areas of debate raised,
but a few points.

I think the concept of situation, or created situation is actually basic to
situ ideas and particularly their original development (and different from
the Temporary Autonomous Zone idea) - see preliminary problems in
constructing a situation from IS #1. For me the idea has always been one of
going beyond "prehistory" - where "men (sic) make their own history but not
under conditions chosen by themselves...." . The situation is opposed to the
spectacle as "livers" (probably sounds better in French) opposed to
spectators.

I think both the strength and weakness of the SI was its dependence on a
conception of authenticity; its strength in terms of its ability like Marx
to view today from a historical perspective, particularly from a possible
future (yet not utopian) perspective. The problem I think is that while
there are times when it is possible to express a real contradictory
possibility in dualist terms, the rest of the time concepts of authenticity
are downright dangerous.

For "Autonomous Marxism" antagonism is always temporal and rooted in a
particular class formation, but because of this is never as "outside" or
capable of a totality of critique such as the SI.

This is the contradiction - how do we get beyond it is the question?
Neither Paris nor Padova but global revolution!




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