[LAF] RE: notes from Saturday discussion

[steve ash]

Thanks for this very useful D&G summary. Yes I've been
reading these recently and also picked up on similar
ideas from other sources who were probably rehashing
them.

I find their ideas very interesting, but as you say
they don't come up with much practical stuff. I'm
currently trying to get to grips with them (and D's
earlier material) on a philosophical level which may
take a little time. Perhaps the LAF could organise a D
& G Symposium at Ramparts or the Institute of Autonomy
in the Autumn?

Steve 


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> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:54:23 +0100
> From: "Bailey,DJ  (pgr)" <D.J.Bailey at lse.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: [LAF] notes from Saturday discussion
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> hi,
>  
> this looks like a really interesting discussion, and
> a shame I couldn't join.
>  
> the conclusions sound rather pessimistic, though.
>  
> The general drift of the discussion seems to fit
> pretty well with some stuff I've been reading lately
> by Deleuze and Guattari.
>  
> They basically argue that the aim of revolutionary
> activity should be the pursuit of desire, which in
> its myriad forms will be unsustainable within a
> grand system.  Thus, it is the dissolution of the
> system, through the divergent, muliple and disparate
> pursuits of desire, that will overcome the existing
> forms of oppression and control that exist in our
> current grand structures.
>  
> This sounds pretty reasonable, and overcomes many of
> the problems identified in the discussion
> (especially the reproduction of structures of
> domination through acts of resistance, the inability
> to completely remove oneself from the present, and
> the restriction of revolutionary activity to those
> within the revolutionary sect).
>  
> what this means in practice, of course, is not
> entirely clear...
>  
> whilst it is unable to prescribe particular actions,
> it is able to provide us with a perspective
> according to which we can assess whether we are
> acting to support, sustain or challenge the existing
> structures of control.  i think this must be of some
> use
>  
>  
> 
> 


		
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