From: Richard Singer <ricinger-AT-inch.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: RE: More on Fascism
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:33:25 -0400


A little off-topic, but the first two Saints albums were among my favorites 
in 1978, when I was 16 years old.  ((I'm Stranded, Know Your Product...)

Richard



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From:	Martin Hardie [SMTP:z3118338-AT-student.unsw.edu.au]
Sent:	Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:55 AM
To:	aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject:	Re: AUT: RE: More on Fascism

too late to think

as far as I know Ed Kuepper is in Brisbane
I managed the Laughing Clowns for about 5 years

by bare law I meant what is left over stripped of its transcendental
basis.... I suppose yes founded by violence/power but with an
opportunity to make something new as well (jus not lex)


.: s0metim3s :. wrote:

>Martin:
>
>: .: s0metim3s :. wrote:
>:
>: sometimes .... the fire dance?
>
>Ah, the Laughing Clowns...  Nice.  Very nice.
>Whatever did happen to Ed Kuepper, or have I just
>not been paying attention?
>
>: The Savage Anomaly and think as always
>: I need to read it again. I took
>: on hardt's thesis which has helped it
>: sink in a bit. But from my reading
>: of the state  of exception is that what
>: is revealed in a way is "bare
>: law" stripped of its transcendental
>: trappings. I just  packed the
>: excerpts from the book translated by
>: anthony's gang so its a little hard
>: to go back to it just now (and the
>: server wont let me access it online
>: at the moment) ... but try and help me
>: what you are geting at here vis a
>: vis exception compared with anomaly.
>
>I prefer _SA_ to _Empire_; but my point wasn't all
>that complicated -- though a longer conversation
>about the state of exception and the law would be
>pertinent (do you mean 'bare law', as in the
>founding of law by violence, or 'bare life',
>btw?).
>
>All I meant was that what seems to be at stake in
>the argument over whether or not reading Schmitt
>is a sign of political turpitude is a diversion.
>That is, a way to *not* have the argument over
>whether the state of exception is an unusual
>(exceptional) deviation from the regular
>functioning of the law or whether the suspension
>of the rule of law is an inextricable part of its
>ability to function as the law.
>
>Angela
>_______________
>
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