Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:22:32 -0700 From: Judy <jaw-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Differend Reading Group >All > >devil's advocate... uhmmmm. > >The difficulty with planning such an excercise and constructing a >structure prior to starting is that the constraints may cause more >issues than they resolve. The issue in my opinion is simply to begin >and see where the discourse takes us. > >In one of the earlier emails someone suggested three or four issues >and concerns - those who have them should dispatch them prior to >Monday so that 'we' can collectively think about them. For myself >I'd suggest we email them out towards the end of the week.... > three issues that i like or want to hear more about (off the top of my head): 1. the critique of anthropomorphisation, the shift from the human-centric to...? (Steve raises this issue too, the human, the nonhuman, the Other.) The idea of 'use' in Wittgenstein and Kant as a cumbersome debt to anthropomorphism, in what sense is that? Does L meant the implication of instrumental rationality? What else? 2. the connection between the Postmodern Condition and the Differend (one that Eric raised)--agonistics, dissent, the connection between terror and the coercive false resolution (litigation) of differends as if they were between commensurables--the implicit terror of any sustained consensus in a heterogeneous world. narrative, legitimation, metanarrative. 3. archipelagos Judy --
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