File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2003/lyotard.0301, message 179


Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:25:31 +0000
From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: two solutions - a question


all

"In today's circumstances of unprecedented intermixing of foriegners on 
earth, two extrme solutions are taking shape. Either we are heading 
towards global united states of all former nation-states: a process that 
could be contemplated in the long run and that the economic, scientific 
and media-based development allows one to assume. Or else the humanistic 
cosmopolitism shows itself to be utopic, and particularistic aspirations 
force one to believe that small political sets are the optimal 
structures to insure the survival of humanity...." (Kristeva )

often on this list I get the feeling that the latter more post-modern 
approach contains the fears and theoretical directions that people 
imagine as being correct... as being the reasonable way out of the mire 
that constitutes our society. Yet if you accept the latter are you not 
also losing the ability to argue for "rights" ?

s




   

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