From: "Lowe Laclau" <lowelaclau-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: AUT: Lula & Felix 
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:04:47 -0400



Hello all,

Just came across this while looking for an old article by Gary Genosko. Apparently he wrote a book in 2003 dealing with the extremely brief encounter between Lula and Guattari in 1982. http://www.arbeiterring.com/featured/pwb.html. The interview between the two men is quite interesting, especially if you're interested in the development of the PT. Say what you will today about Lula, but he's quite an incredible figure. 

There is a good write up of it here: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=320

The idea behind the book seems kind of a stretch for me, but it might possibly be an interesting book to acquaint readers to both men's politics. There is at least one thing which I think is a misreading of Guattari. The line where Genosko described Guattari's theory of integrated world capitalism as implying a global "monoculture" -- in order to fit him in the mould of an anti-globalzation protester(?). This goes against the grain of his thesis of axiomatization, which both supports and in some senses needs to produce certain kinds of diversity. But I'd have to see the book to be certain of what he does.   

Lowe




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