From: "Paul Murphy" <Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: World corporatism and the Enframing of work
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:53:47 +0200


during McCarthyism Thomas Mann's novel 'The Magic Mountain' was banned in
the US among other novels and works like Einstein's account of Relativity
(and China, USSR) a book not noted as a handbook for guerillas.
Has gestell anything to do with Casper Ghostl?
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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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