Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 02:03:36 -0400 (EDT) From: B Madonna Durkheim <wrgstu-AT-sun.cc.westga.edu> Subject: Re: the wager of seduction To Ryan: Sure, Sure, Sure, use Baudrillard for cultural studies all you want, so long as you don't expect it to "work". If there is any point at which Deleuze and Guattari are in total agreement with baud. or vice versa, its in the ideal that "it" only works by breaking down. And if the "left" still had anything left, I would be the first to join you. But there is simply nothing left. Regarding resistance, It is a nice word to use, but what do you think you are/will be resisting? That's one I can no longer figure out. The left as you call it is the institution, so where does that leave leftists to resist? The periphery does not resist, it kills and dies. In case you haven't noticed, it is the right which is now performing revolutions. So if you are resistive or revolutionary, you are just dancing around in the center, bound by the Law. If you want to piss of us pathetic few on this list, then you really must rethink what you intend to resist from. I know, indifference complicates your ideological desires, but for what its worth, no one really cares. Cultural studies thinks its doing something, and so long as it does, it will remain imperialistic, capitalistic, and reductionistic. The West can neither understand nor help the East, but only fuck it up worse than it already has. And the priveledged cannot help the oppressed, but only patronize them. Utopic ideology is only production, so stop fighting it, and seduce it. (cult)ural stu(dies) Oklahoma was only the begining, Ross ------------------
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