Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:57:03 +1200
From: Rebecca Stringer <rebecca.stringer-AT-stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: McPhilosophy


>there might be an interesting connection between K's use of the 'agent'
>and your line of inquiry. genealogy and causality don't mesh at all-hence
>Klossowski's autobiographical reading of the temporal unwinding of the
>agent and marxist critique seem impossible to wed together. however, N
>also makes life difficult when it comes to overcoding 'herds' as the
>'same'.

>no camel stepped in the same river twice.

Or once as the classic retort goes!
Is that why why klossowski uses the term 'assentiment'?
'Underneath' the pairing of M's critique of capitalism & N on the herd was
a thought about deleuze's portrait of the 'man of ressentiment' as the 'the
man of profit and gain'. I'd coupled this with Rosemary Hennesey's idea
that outlawed needs operate as capitalism's constitutive outside, and was
moving toward a reading of capitialism as a culture/economy of ressentiment
(however, my work at the degree factory took time away from adequate
articulation of my point). Somehow, the list's impugnation of Lewis Vella
became a lightening rod - I'm concerned that contemporary disdain for
'socialism' often is more reflex-ive than reflective.
Shall put some thought into Klossowski's agent.
Rebecca

For the revenge thread - a good WS quote (followed up by distinction
between two kinds of revenge - immediate counter-blow & calculated revenge,
for which "time is needed"):
"The word "revenge" is said so quickly, it almost seems as if it could not
contain more than one root concept and feeling . . . as if all words were
not pockets into which now this and now that has been put, and now so many
things at once! Thus "revenge," too, is now this and now that, and now
something very composite." (N, WS: 33)






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