Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:56:48 +0100
From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Spectre of Madness


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Life like politics is an experimental activity and the danger of the 
Pynchon quote (a great novel i agree) is that you cannot live in the 
thrall of the Wordsworthian  nach-drach-tory. This fateful toryism is 
the great danger of existing in the 21st C... postmodern world.

"... i remember the days when the French progressive movement - Deleuze 
was very engaged in this - supported the creation of free [i.e. 
private-sector] radio stations. At the time, French radio was still 
entirely state-run. The creation of free radio stations was to be the 
conquest of a framented, multiform territoriality. And Deleuze was 
partly right. But for the most part what took place was the conquest of 
radio by capital. This is always the danger.....Because on this point we 
are rivals to capital, rather than merely reacting against it. It is a 
struggle of universalism againgst universalism, NOT of particularism 
against universalism...." (Badiou)

regards
steve


>"But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion. The illusion
>of control. That A could do B. But that was false. Completely. No one can
>*do*. Things only happen". - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
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"But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion. The illusion
of control. That A could do B. But that was false. Completely. No one can
*do*. Things only happen". - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"