Re: [-empyre-] Baudrillard and the future of theory
- To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
- Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Baudrillard and the future of theory
- From: "McKenzie Wark" <mckenzie.wark@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:18:01 -0500
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On 3/10/07, Aliette <aliette@criticalsecret.org> wrote:
But the very question is the essay as free style.
... Essay does not deliver representation, it creates both the thought from > the style as the thought equalizing the style itself.
This i think is essential. Thought working in and against language. JB
was quite gentle on the reader in this regard. It was about a paring
down. Like Miles Davis. The one note that let's you know about the
dozen not chosen.
Theory had a (possibly dependent) relationship on the militant
languages from which it broke. With the collapse of militant
organizations in the west, theory finds itself in a certain
difficulty. It gets absorbed into scholarship as if it were never
anything else.
Hence i think it prudent to tack back the other way now, to use a
(slightly displaced) Marxist language, for example. Now that 'everyone
knows' all that is over and in the past, etc. Precisely because it is
'anachronistic'.
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