Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 13:24:13 +1000
From: chris l smith <clsmith-AT-mail.newcastle.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Afghanistan


Chris,
While passion is a wave to be ridden I tend to think we must be 
careful to negotiate the 'other' in such concrete manifestations as 
the present state of affairs.

When affect has no source other than a state that inspires it then 
the affect is mere feeling- measurable only by the internal.  To 
externalise surely one needs to bare the state of affairs only as an 
instance and exorcise the emergence of affect from this measurable 
quantity.  The difference, I think, is between a politics of the 
other and a micropolitics as Deleuze and Guattari describe it.

  (to be a foreigner in ones own tongue rather than to utiise foreign tongues.)

Thanks,
chris l smith.


>To the people of Britain, USA and all allied countries,
>
>Britain and the USA may have swatted a few mosquitos but they will not stop
>the growing swarm.
>
>Join the growing mass movement, what D&G call micropolitics, and oppose this
>racist war. March on the streets, protest in cyberspace, oppose the war in
>anyway possible. Tell your governments to get out of Afghanistan.
>
>Like D&G, I for one simply refuse to recant. If my freedom to speak out, my
>well being and even my life is threatened-- so be it. I will not support
>this war.
>
>SAY NO TO THIS RACIST WAR
>
>Chris Jones