From: HealantHenry-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:19:20 EDT
Subject: Re: World corporatism and the Enframing of work



In a message dated 4/24/03 11:56:03 AM, Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com writes:

>Now it is the 'war against terrorism' a complete misnomer, of course, since
>terrorism has been going on for some time, much of it sponsored by the
>US.

Lots of ripe stuff to discuss here in the heideggerian vein:
 "What are warriors for?"  "the question concerning terrorism," and so forth.

I would look upon the 'war on terrorism' as a succinct control mechanism that 
calls into play all of the calculative/calculating agencies of technology.  
Beyond the pernicious politics of right-wing amerika, the "war on terrorism" 
could be an announcement of the Gestell:  terror being a kind of entity which 
obstructs or elides (thanks Malcolm) the reduction of humanity and beings to 
resources or inventory. 

There are, of course, other forms of life that have yet to be defined as 
'terror' (except metaphorically, like environmentalists' views and feminists' 
views--so far) but the mobilizations taking place domestically and 
internationally through the US admin, reveal an opening for many things to be 
defined as terror, and conjoined to the gestell through political responses 
and oppressions, and the penal system.

The liberal and neo-liberal political forces operate within gestell, too, of 
course.  It appears that the operations of the gestell move less quickly 
through liberal democracy than through the neo-police state practices of the 
right wing.  The former contributes to gestell more like digestion, the later 
more like rapid combustion.

peace,
hen


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