Re: Economics of Communist Society

[Chris <red@xxxxxxx>]

are we blind to Prometheus' problems? do we think our class' liberation is
born of negation? I find this notion of absense as liberatory starting
place very disturbing and quite tedious in light of nihilism, Nietzche,
Foucault, et. al. I haven't read enough Negri, and maybe I am picking on
an insignificant point, but I think the comrade who earlier asked why we
aren't taking Vandana Shiva seriously was onto something. Shiva and others
like her place life, regeneration, and reproduction in the center (and
without reinforcing tired gender roles, I might add). I find this a
significantly more human approach than the supposedly liberatory void.
Shiva, by the way, may appear most intersting to aut-op-sy folks if read
in a political-economic context, say in the pages of _Economic and
Political Weekly_ out of India. Generally on absense vs. presence and
political theory, I recomend Somer Brodribb, _Nothing Mat(t)ers: A
Feminist Critique of Postmodernism_.
Chris

On Sun, 11 May 1997, FRANCO BARCHIESI wrote:

> politics. Maybe it would be nice to put on the list the "apology of
> the absence of memory" written by Negri in 1981 ("the memory of the
> proletariat is the memory of the past estrangement, only the absence
> of memory is revolutionary"...). I think Steve has it, even if I'm not
> sure he agrees with it (I find it a very suspect text myself indeed,
> given the climate of political "dissociation" when it was written,
> but this is another story).



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