File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2004/lyotard.0411, message 57


Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:17:36 +1100 (EST)
From: "Glen Fuller" <g.fuller-AT-uws.edu.au>
Subject: RE: modes of production and procedures of truth


Eric,

Cool! Bring on Multitude! I may be away from computer access and only 
be able to contribute intermittently to discussion. I was thinking I 
would write up some brief notes from each of the ‘dot point’ sections 
(1.1, 1.2, 1.3), and then when I had time engage with what others have 
written. I am finding the section on war a bit boring to tell you the 
truth. Delanda’s War in the Age of Intelligent Machines is a lot more 
exciting.  

Writing about SUVs is too easy -  like throwing a sucker punch. 
Everyone around here seems to be so proud of themselves driving these 
spectacular monstrosities in an everyday way... critiquing such 
behaviour and the culture to which it belongs is a bit like pointing 
out to the emperor (of Empire) that, yes, he is indeed wearing clothes, 
but they are so ridiculously and inappropriately out of fashion that he 
is making an ass of himself. Someone needs to queer eye the emporer...

> It's not just that we're assholes - we have to be moral pricks about 
it
> as well! Self-righteous resentiment - shades of Nietzsche - we aren't
> happy when we drive our SUV's, even in our big cars we still feel like
> victums.

Haha, this reminds me of the way the South Park boys constructed the US 
in their ‘Team America’ - as the biggest dicks in the world! The rise 
of the SUV may be a very useful analogy for discussing the first 
chapter of the Multitude (at least the bits that I have read) in terms 
of the production of security, I am not sure. I am quite certain that 
the rise of the SUV is linked to other reactionary exemplars of the 
refrain of the right-eous. Although there is nothing ‘networked’ about 
the SUV, not in the sense N&H are talking about it. 

Ciao,
Glen.

-- 
PhD Candidate 
Centre for Cultural Research
University of Western Sydney

Read my rants: http://glenfuller.blogspot.com/


   

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