[-empyre-] January 2017: -empyre- STRIKES BACK

[Craig Saper]

Faute de lecture, #14 (transcryption):
			marginalia:: New / re / solutions <> rough notes — inconclusive — [as if notes and transcription of a lecture on "What Is To Be Done?”] — speaker’s identity Monty Cantsin (see my notes on Cantsin). [Marco D

[not being a very good note taker; I’m not J-A Miller in those other seminars that appears to have written down seminar notes that no one else even heard]. [so, not “me” as speaker / passing along / 

"multiple fronts. multiple strategies. alliances.” 
					— some contradictory
					— some convert
					— some conductive / provocative / 

1/ kettle logic as state-sanctioned logic: [recall: Freud’s description]:
That he had returned the kettle undamaged;
That it was already damaged when he borrowed it;
That he had never borrowed it in the first place. [see also JD]
	Notice how this is the logic ALWAYS in play in the current dDT administration.

<> appropriate response [or What Would Lacan Do?]: “Yes,” [agreeing with dDT, and #4 in the sequence]: “And, he could not have damaged the kettle because his own kettle is missing.”
<> see also General McCaffrey on most effective military strategy “spoof” the enemies news and information sources — 
<> generate “fake” — with this logic where NO INDIVIDUAL STATEMENT IS FALSE — but the combination and conclusions — seems to follow logic of news and evidence. Work/s anonymously — 
<> viral … meme … pseudonyms.
<> [see also S.Home, M.Deseriis, many others — everyone on the -empyre list?]

2/ Continue to denounce — the above — calm, rational, evidence-based. Single issue, mass action orientation. post actions on social media. do not get caught up with red herrings and phishing expeditions. <> de(an)nounce the above ONLY — ignore the Real dDT — FRAME it without the dDT having a place in the conversation [Nunberg Avec Heartfield] — — [classic strategy both “sides” are within the frame you set-up … 

3/ [indecipherable] — [something about writing the ph number of your lawyer in Sharpie on your arm, just in case][see also RDominguez]

4\ PTSD (aka historical memory)[fate de lecture.]: 
Epigram: “We thought it would last a year or two.” [from child of the holocaust, on the new regime marching into Vienna 1938] 

History of Austria: was already under rule by its second autocrat since 1933, and had already assasinated labor leaders and socialists. We always forget — who here remembers the dictator Dollfuss (assisinated by the even farther right Nazis?). Who remembers that Schuschnigg (the current autocrat in 1938) exclaimed in January of 1938: “There is no question of ever accepting Nazi representatives in the Austrian cabinet. An absolute abyss separates Austria from Nazism. . . We reject uniformity and centralization. . . .  not the Nation, or that elusive thing, Race.”

 "At first there were parades. Then the change happened quickly.” [from child of the holocaust]

[see also White Rose]

5\  faute de lecture, misreading or lack of reading [book knowledge], … an intentional  faux pas of sorts leading to a fauxte de lecture,[RBurt]  "when it comes to talking about a topic that is considered to be taboo in many circumstances."

6\ my manifesto [w/ my psuedonym dj readies]: 
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/intimate-bureaucracies/
[also see report on No Power in NOLA — about power expressed in lack of power — drowing us in a tub.

. . . 





On Jan 4, 2017, at 10:18 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

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Happy New Year as well!

Resolutions coupled with critique; this is a period when we have to fight, against not only fake news, diatribes, violence and hatred, but also against simplistic analysis; we must learn to listen - to any and all voices. We were not prepared to comprehend the suddeness of the concrete overturning of legislations we fought for and believe in, and too many of us have turned to such despair, as to be basically dysfunctional; I see this over and over again. So we must stay alive (too much talk of suicide and total resignation) in the first place; and we must be prepared to resist, on whatever level we can.

- Resist, make art, make noise, be furious!

(A personal resolution - to stay away from Facebook and other social media platitudes/aphorisms that serve to comfort us - and instead tend towards deeper listening and analysis: not against theory, but theory with a swerve and the long take. The world's too complex otherwise and the surface of Fb etc. is horrific and inauthentic (in Sartre's sense) in this regard. And another personal resolution - to stay away from Heidegger!)


- Alan
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