Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:17:55 +0000 From: "steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk> Subject: Re: leotard - in vain Eric as an afterthought - a fellow worker in the USA says he is terrified that after the war Bush will be re-elected - is this also your fear ? I sympathise with the below, and hope that on this side of the atlantic we will eradicate Blair...soon steve Eric wrote: >Steve, > >I also bought the book, but haven't looked at it in some time. Thus, no >comments for now, but maybe we could talk about some of the essays >later. I agree the essay on Emma alone is worth the price of admission. > >I read an interesting short essay by Zizek recently where he talks about >the current Bush administration in the context of the film "The Minority >Report." I don't know if this should be construed as modern or >postmodern, but the interesting thing about the movie is that it is all >about being pre-emptive, resolving crimes before they even occur. In >this it resembles the Bush administration, attempting a pre-emptive war >against Iraq because they have the 'potentiality' of developing and >using weapons of mass destruction. The Bush regime says, like Tom >Cruise, that we must stop now their possible future contingent acts. >(and just like the movie, Bush himself is accused of murder.) > >What is interesting about the movie is that the clairvoyants may >sometimes disagree, creating a 'minority report.' Isn't that exactly >what is going on right now? The Bush administration continues to assure >us that everything will be fine - after the regime change, democracy >will blossom like Southern magnolias in the Middle East, but all these >other voices still continue to mutter and strangely these minority >voices cannot be kept silent. > >What is most frightening about the Bush regime is the fact that they >seem to lack the imagination to envision any other future than the one >they want to sell us; theirs is a world where faith and macho strength >become of form of hubris. I am fearful of what these men who believe in >God will do to the world today and perhaps this very doubt and >skepticism is the best form of postmodernism. > >Unlike Bush, I can't conceive of the future as a series of discounted >cash flows ushering in the pre-millennial Apocalypse and the return of >Jesus with a flaming plutonium sword. > >Thus, I urge the dissident clairvoyant voices be listened to. The >minority report tells us that the future need not be what the Masters of >War tell us it must be. In the crack in the void where strange futures >dissipate another world may yet emerge. Let the weirdness in.... > >eric > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >[mailto:owner-lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] On Behalf Of >steve.devos >Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 1:35 PM >To: lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Subject: lyotard - in vain > >All > >I bought a copy of a text 'Lyotard' - edited by Hugh J Silverman's - >mostly because it had a translation of Lyotard's 'Emma. Then today, >whilst drinking espresso in Dean street I read the first paragraph of >the Introduction. In which Silverman draws together the words American, >beautiful, modern into... a hysterically funny mess? > >(Bizarrely he thinks the WTC was a modernist endaevor - post Baudrillard > >I thought everyone understood there postmodern status) > >Has anyone read this text and any reason to believe its worth finishing >- given my non-american status? > >regards >steve > > > > >
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