Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:07:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: andrew robinson <ldxar1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: war & sacrifice


I must admit I'd taken Orion Anderson and Richard
Koenigburg's stuff to be anti-war - it seems to me to
resound with the critique of social control as
libidinal sacrifice which has been around in radical
theory since Stirner and which is especially notable
in Situationism - by sacrificing oneself to the spooks
or roles, one enacts one's own enslavement and thereby
produces the social effectivity of the spooks.  A kind
of extension of the way labour-power turns against
itself in the form of capital, according to Marx.  Of
course if libidinal structures are reactive, they
require spooks and sacrifice.  But all a spook can be
is a demander of sacrifice; it cannot be creatively
productive.  It can only channel others'
self-enslavement, or operate as a tool to enable
enslavement of some by others.

I especially liked Chris's post on war and whup. 
Reminded me of Baudrillard on war, but easier to
understand, more carefully configured.  Whup is still
sacrifice, but only of the other.  In this it seems to
me to follow from policing types of action, more than
from wars - though it's also a kind of globalisation
of what locally has been referred to as "dirty war" or
"social cleansing".  Whup is social cleansing of the
criminalised other on a global level, to ensure the
preservation of a world system - hence, the US becomes
global policeman in the same way that an actual cop
operates, as the creator of social dominance through
violence against the different.

Andy

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