File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2002/lyotard.0205, message 110


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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