Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:19:56 -0400 From: "Shawn P. Wilbur" <swilbur-AT-wcnet.org> Subject: [postanarchism] on more practical terms "An invitation leaves one free. Otherwise, it becomes constraint. It should never imply: you are obliged to come, you have to come, it is necessary. But the invitation must be pressing, not indifferent. It should never imply: you are free not to come and if you don't come, never mind, it doesn't matter. Without the pressure of some desire--which at once says "come" and leaves, nevertheless, the other his absolute freedom--the invitation immediately withdraws and becomes unwelcoming. It must therefore split and redouble itself at the same time, a once leave free and take hostage: double act, redoubled act." -- Jacques Derrida, "Passions: 'An Oblique Offering'" To cut to the chase: what happens when we attempt to apply this sort of undertanding to the sorts of real invitations that structure our lives - "sleep with me," to take one example - ? When happens when we don't? -shawn
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