From: "Chris Hurl" <munkah-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Strategies and Tactics (was self-valorisation)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:44:07 -0800
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<P>Are 'tactics' necessarily tied to a means/ends rationality? Of course, it is a dangerous move locate 'tactics' in this dichotomy which seems to legitimize the old Stalinist argument that you can't make an omlette without breaking some eggs. But what about Certeau's argument which suggests that strategies occupy a sort of discursive 'place', while tactics are not granted such a privileged position? Isn't there a difference between my decision to skip work by calling in sick and my articulation of a set of principles to guide action in a mass demonstration? It seems to me that strategies must make distinctions between means and ends. From Certeau's standpoint, they are inscribed in a language which destroys the immediacy of action. They are stuck, attached to a particular privileged discursive 'place'; whereas tactics can never occupy such a position but rather move across 'space'. (I don't know if this is valid; perhaps it's just poststructuralist wanking). From my limited understanding of self-valorization, it seems to me that it can never be captured in a discursive 'place', it always seems to allude discourse and undermines the means/ends dichotomy; so I am tempted to contend that self-valourization is a sort of tactic.</P>
<P>confusedly,</P>
<P>chris (h.) <BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: Harald Beyer-Arnesen <HARALDBA-AT-ONLINE.NO>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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<DIV></DIV>>Subject: AUT: Re: self-valorisation
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:30:04 +0100
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<DIV></DIV>>From: "Geo Maher" <GEOMAHER-AT-YAHOO.COM>
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<DIV></DIV>>Sent: 27. februar 2003 15.28
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: AUT: self-valorisation
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<DIV></DIV>> > hello all
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<DIV></DIV>> > been lurking for a while, but now i have a question. i
<DIV></DIV>> > am doing some work on autonomist thought in italy, and
<DIV></DIV>> > specifically on its respective theoretical, strategic,
<DIV></DIV>> > and tactical elements. however, with relation to the
<DIV></DIV>> > specific term "self-valorisation" i am coming up
<DIV></DIV>> > against (seemingly) conflicting accounts of whether it
<DIV></DIV>> > represents an overall strategic orientation (ie, punto
<DIV></DIV>> > di vista operaio) or a tactical element (ie, as the
<DIV></DIV>> > positive element of the refusal: self organisation,
<DIV></DIV>> > etc). i know that harry cleaver places emphasis in RCP
<DIV></DIV>> > on its tactical content, but the use in Negri's
<DIV></DIV>> > "Domination and Sabotage" seems vague.
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<DIV></DIV>> > Any help would be appreciated.
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<DIV></DIV>>Not directly to your question but a question of
<DIV></DIV>>a more general nature from what you write above.
<DIV></DIV>>Is it very meaningful to draw a clear distinction
<DIV></DIV>>between tactical and strategic. Anarchists have
<DIV></DIV>>tended to refuse to do so, and I think for rather
<DIV></DIV>>good reasons, stressing the intimate relation
<DIV></DIV>>betwen means and ends. Added to this, seeing
<DIV></DIV>>tactical as something seperate easily lends itself
<DIV></DIV>>to instrumental thought. Some rather bad
<DIV></DIV>>historical experiences followed from that.
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<DIV></DIV>>Harry Cleaver can answers for himself, but my
<DIV></DIV>>understanding of his writings suggests he sees
<DIV></DIV>>it in much the same way, if expressed in different
<DIV></DIV>>words and terms. Am I right in this?
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<DIV></DIV>>Harald
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<DIV></DIV>>Harald
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