Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 11:30:48 PDT Subject: Re: Any interest? On Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:47:23 -0400 (EDT) you wrote: >It looks like there's at least three or four of us interested in >re-reading _Simulations_. So let's do it. I'm assuming we're all >interested in the (kinda) new translation? Ok, so is this the Semiotext(e) version or the Univ of Michigan Press version? I'm doing another reading group on the Listserv that I administer, and it seems that what works for most people is if there is a small number of pages to read per day for discussion, say about 20. That would put the reading of sim & sim at around 8 days, which might seem like a long time, but it won't get in the way too much for those of us who have loads of other (as I'm told, "more important") reading to do. Anyway, if we do something like this, count me in. Peace, Gyan /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Scott Penrose-Kafka <spenrose-AT-uci.edu> Program in Political Psychology Department of Politics and Society University of California, Irvine (For PGP Public Key: See end of quotes below) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Destroying Knowledge "The time has come, it seems, to face the facts: revolution is movement, but movement is not revolution. Politics is only a gear-shift and revolution only its overdrive" Virilio. "Fear is the cruelest of assassins: It never kills but keeps you from living." An old saying. "Under the Republicans, Man exploits Man. Under the Democrats, it's the other way around." A not-so-old saying. "Empiricism is the matrix of all faults menacing a discourse which continues...to consider itself scientific." Derrida "There is a jubilation proper to spectacular nullity, and the last form it takes is that of *statistical contemplation*" Baudrillard "The obligation to talk with those one would reject imposes an obligatory community where none may be desired, giving the lie to consent and the tollerance of difference. Coerced participation in dialogue, coerced speech, is presented as an invitation to self-expression and equality, yet those who are brought into these against their will have already been denied one aspect of their self-determination. They enter subordinate." Anne Norton "Narrated reality constantly tells us what must be believed and what must be done. What can you oppose to the facts? You can only give in, and obey what they "signify," like an oracle, like the oracle of Delphi. The fabrication of simulacra thus provides the means of producing believers and hence people practicing their faiths." de Certeau "The person who follows others has no trust in himself: that's why he follows others. The man who has trust in himself learns from others but does not follow. He follows his own insight. Whatsoever the risk he never compromises." OSHO "Because modernity is excessively conscious of time, it somehow removes joy from human existence." P.M. Rosenau "[The] arithmetic element of the State found its specific power in the treatment of all kinds of matter: Primary matters (raw materials), the secondary matter of worked objects, or the ultimate matter constituted by the human population. Thus the number has always served to gain mastery over matter, to control its varitations and movements, in other words to submit them to the spatio-temporal framework of the State" Deleuze & Guattari /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ PGP key for Scott Penrose-Kafka -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.1 mQCNAy+mGv8AAAEEAMjMN3fMQrfZJxoVjRgoHRMGektBjMArLParAKMLsqKh7eBe sxwTtD04BRvZ3vcoMom5t9OGt7zHEgd0mCLgGIIeI7H2F+sX/OrhIe+hURU3SZ4E Kse2yH/fx3nfk9Hm2PR5Cdyz7bsNpWb8n6Hty3OdkjkljMBMRX/SaxYTVobhAAUR tCZTY290dCBQZW5yb3NlLUthZmthIDxzcGVucm9zZUB1Y2kuZWR1Pg==r99t -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ ------------------
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