Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:32:39 +1000
Subject: Re: MB: what is desoeuvrement?


> Date:          Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:16:00 +1000
> From:          Sebastian Gurciullo <sebtempo-AT-silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au>
> Subject:       MB: what is desoeuvrement?

> Extrapolating a little further, and this is perhaps what I am really
> interested in, is it possible to comprehend the events of May 1968 through
> either desoeuvrement or Eternal Return, as the unworking of the telos of
> revolutionary activity? What would the implications for such an
> understanding of May 1968 and its aftermath be, if viewed through either of
> these notions, in terms of the continuing circulation of Late (New World
> Order) Capitalism?

See the exchange between the thought of Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy 
(_The Inoperative Community_, see the translator's introduction for 
the Blanchot link to desoevrement) and Blanchot (_The Unavowable 
Community_,  his reply).
Mark
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