Re: [-empyre-] breaking out of prison...

[Danny Butt <db@dannybutt.net>]

Good questions Ryan!

I guess the way I think about it is to not pre-judge the relationship
between other spaces and informationalised imperialism. That is to say, if
Raul is asserting alterity from informational capital (I'm not sure if you
are Raul, but stay with me here), rather than responding "there is no
outside to informational capital" and therefore he must redefine himself
according to this; to accept instead that assertion as being as valid as our
own and seeing where the dialogue goes. Of course, no conversation is
outside our own cognitive/political construction. But I think to try and
leave that aside for a period *in* "the encounter" leaves us *afterward*
with a more reflexive understanding of the "phallic logic" of transnational
capital (and our implication within it). This is of great benefit both to
our own resistant labour and the process of forging alliances toward
political goals. 

(I don't think this is matrixial space but I think there are some potential
overlaps in this description?)

I don't think this is advocating for inattention to e.g. colonial
bio-politics. It's just a difference between intersubjective and
representational politics (?). I'm still new to this so I'm not really sure
I'm saying what I mean.

x.d

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On 4/22/05 3:58 PM, "ryan griffis" <grifray@yahoo.com> wrote:

> How does one resist, confront, critique this activity if not from a
> position that holds it accountable to the ideals that it is supposed to
> embody, yet actually defeats (hence makes a contradiction).
> Are there examples of confrontational politics that aren't using
> phallic logic?
> Or would these concerns not exist within a matrixial space? i'm aware
> that i'm expressing a binary relationship between the phallic and
> matrixial, which maybe isn't the case.