links for 2005-03-16
by jebni on March 16, 2005
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Just don’t take the rhetorical ploy in the first paragraph seriously: “When the ‘material girl’ is heralded as subversive and all the Marxists are tenured, we truly have entered the age of the ‘virtual reversibility of signs of subversion…’”(categories: ethics politics negri bordieu beasley-murray post-political habermas civil-society public-sphere)
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An anticapitalist Euro-art extravaganza… I think. This stuff has an odd tone.
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Interesting, despite some fairly simplistic-looking disavowals of Heidegger and Schmitt.
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How much of this is about the positive and normative enshrinement of identities? And will observations like this just encourage more white, liberal handwringing, calls for “better representation”, etc, but without coming to grips with how power operates in general?
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If the conversations I had were any indication, most of what came out of our panel was the idea that people are willing and ready to talk bout race but don’t know how to broach the subject in mixed company.
This was a call for common ground and hopefully a way to encourage other minorities to attend sxsw next year.
by Jason on 16 March 2005 at 3:50 pm. #
Didn’t want to rain on your parade — I haven’t actually read Nancy’s transcript yet. My del.icio.us entry was more a note to self, questioning whether the question “how white is your blogroll?” will lead to a flurry of tokenism to relieve the panic. It was also a desire go beyond the burden of responsibility of non-whites to positively represent themselves as part of some zoo exhibit. I’m more interested in how the online modulation of cultural difference as difference (rather than the great weight of speaking for our ancestors, speaking on behalf our race) might dislocate the zoo in the first place.
by jebni on 16 March 2005 at 4:56 pm. #