File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9811, message 102


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)


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