Re: [-empyre-] Tactics and Strategies

[Renee Turner <geuzen@xs4all.nl>]

> 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.

Thanks for this interjection Brian...  I could not agree more.  While  
being critical about the limits of theory in a vacuum, I am far from  
anti-theory.  In the eighties when I was in art school (now, I out  
myself), I remember reading a conversation between Foucault and  
Deleueze in one of the New Musuem Publications (Discourses).  At one  
point Deleueze says:  "Practice is a set of relays from one  
theoretical point to another, and theory is a relay from one practice  
to another."  When you said usable theory, I thought maybe this  
happens somewhere on the run, in the middle of the relay, where both  
practice and theory are both speculative and substantive.

all the best,

Renee

> best, BH
>
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