Re: [-empyre-] following

["McKenzie Wark" <mckenzie.wark@gmail.com>]

On 3/10/07, Aliette <aliette@criticalsecret.org> wrote:

> Create critical entropy that is only what you can hope for the best but > the  risk of the worst.

Perhaps it was a question of passing through that state to start again...

> Foucault: exactly the struggle against the academic power of post
> structuralism in all its statements ... Foucault as academic
> representative power -what does not presuppose of the quality of his
> personal works and not more of his late activism - late regarding such
> as Baudrillard's or Lyotard's who had begun very more soon:)))

There was a politics to one's choice of theorist in the 80s in the
Anglophone world, and perhaps still. What i admired about Lyotard and
Baudrillard is that they were ex militants. This is not true of
Foucault, Derrida or Deleuze. Its no accident that the attempt to keep
a traditional scholarly practice at arms length collapses in the cases
of Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze, who all now slip easily into
unquestioned academic practices.



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