Re: [-empyre-] Tactics and Strategies

[Brian Holmes <brian.holmes@wanadoo.fr>]

Danny Butt wrote:

> >  I mean, one's 
> > theoretical critique of a particular social  process (e.g 
> > war/militarism) may not always be what you want on a  bumper sticker, 
> > but to understand how oneself is implicated in war  and militarism 
> > might allow you to make better bumper stickers, and  also to develop a 
> > sustainable platform for generating bumper  stickers and other related 
> > works.

Having spent a certain amount of my life searching for the 
best graphic slogans, I want to applaud this statement!

What I like is the link between the complex and the simple.

The anti-theory bias is understandable, when "theory" is a 
name for third-generation recyclings of ideas overblown by 
prestige struggles born of the narcissism of minor differences.

But in today's societies, dominated by applied behavioral 
research, theory is also a way to create yourself, in spite 
of and against all those who want to do that little job for you.

We don't have too much theory. We have too little usable theory.

best, BH