From: lambdac-AT-globalserve.net Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 18:09:37 -0500 Subject: Re: To Lambda C, a waste of good oxygen OK, Mr. Lots-of-Hot-Air & Mad-as-the-wet-hen, so we're finally getting to you and your fond puerile, misinformed, disinforming, commentaries. You - who wanted to give shit to the hegelians etc, are eating it big time: caught on those banal generalizations so dear to academics who could never succeed were it not for the regime of mediocrity that favours their selection. Explain now how you can make those judgements about Hegel or Heidegger without having read or understood them! And explain now too how you move from the anecdotal hear-say quote you provided, where Deleuze is said to protest (how? By signing another of those petitions, etc?) the extradition of the RAF's lawyer from France to Germany, to your insidious, insinuative _conclusion_ that Deleuze "supported" the lawyer's clients, not just in terms of their release from jail, but in terms of their ideology, analysis (if they ever had one!), tactics, strategy, etc, as if Deleuze supported the RAF!! You see, we actually did read what you so fatuously wrote- >I simply >pointed out that Deleuze supported Baader Meinhof - and not only once >they were in prison, but all the way through their career. Not only once, you said- _but all the way through their career_ no less! Now, the quotes from Guattari, if nothing more, might have provoked in that pompous thick head of yours some vague inkling of the extreme betise you were, and are again, insisting on serving us. And even that exemplary whorish quote you provided _from a third party_ at least still has a speck of hesitation in making such grandiose leaps of stupidity- >"He [Foucault] had no >intention of supporting people he considered to be "terrorists". And >that is precisely what he seemed to reproach Deleuze for doing. Foucault _seemed_ to reproach Deleuze for supporting the RAF members in prison... Not that he reproached - he _seemed_ to be reproaching (reference to Foucault please, if you don't mind?). Not to mention that supporting the RAF members in prison has a whole other gamut of connotations - was it support for Holger Meins' refusal to be force fed?, etc, etc. May we suggest you are not being very well served by the shameful readings you choose to make? Or, in a less kind tone, we could ask who's paying you for this disinformation? What odd purpose could it serve- the relaying of such gossipy-tidbits, for clearly neither D nor G are well served by it; nor is anybody's understanding either. Your claim is gratuitous. Lambda Carbonmonoxide (aucuns talents) PS1 And what to say of the deemed refusals of Foucault to support terrorism in the late 70's?, when, in 1972, he said- "On the contrary, our action does not seek for the soul or the man behind the condemned, but to erase the profound border between innocence and culpability. It is the question which Genet already proposed following the death of the judge of Soledad or about that airplane hijacked by the Palestinians in Jordan. While the newspapers cried over the judge and those unfortunate tourists held in the middle of the desert for no apparent reason; Genet, instead, asked: "Is a judge innocent, and is innocent an american lady who has enough money to carry on with tourism that way?" " Can we then conclude that this woman is guilty of existence (or is she guilty for being a tourist, american and having enough money to carry on that way?) and deserved whatever terrorism gave her? Then too, it is no longer just a matter of the efficacy of an action (no hope of course that terror will change anything) - and so is anything in principle a go? Aren't there too many assumptions here? Or proletarians do not fly? They don't drive either? They bicycle then... PS2 "The elimination of the concept of the practice of terrorism is thus correlative at once to the negation of out-dated political points of reference - even if spontaneist - and the affirmation of a radical materialism. This as well we have learned during the '70's, with their awful terrorist interlude." (Guattari & Negri) --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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