From: JessEcoh-AT-cs.com Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:38:35 EDT Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Lewis Call: "Postmodern Anarchism" actually, having read a good bit of it, i'm not all that impressed by the book. unlike the more systematic work by newman and may, _Postmodern Anarchism_ seemed to me like a hodgepodge of ideas that hadn't been very well thought through with some scraps of traditional anarchism. the will to misread seemed incredible at times -- i remember at one point he tries aligning bookchin with baudrillard. at that point, cognitive dissonance makes my head hurt. looking back over my notes, i see that i seem to have thrown the book down in disgust after reading the sentence: "On a more theoretical level, we must acknowledge the possibility that binary logic itself may be deeply implicated in statism." you know the one about how there are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who divide everything into two kinds, and . . . --jesse. --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---
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