File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2004/lyotard.0411, message 93


From: "Steven Snell" <04048675-AT-brookes.ac.uk>
Subject: multitude
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:50:48 -0000


All -

Is the 'multitude' a tool for liberation from a political production of some
sort of world view, or is it like the 'spectacle', something the political
institutions create through their link to the notion of commodification?
There is a lot of interesting discussion occurring (that I'm finally
getting caught up on) but I think I'm missing some of the binary concepts in
order to get my head order some of the more 'advanced' postulations... there 
is something in "If the multitude is defined as including
all those who labour and produce under the rule of capital"... this sounds 
'spectacle'-esque... what does it mean socially, politically, economically, 
culturally? Steve used the notion of communism, which to me provokes a lot 
of negative images with the aforementioned concepts.

Steven.



   

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