Re: AUT: [Fwd: <nettime> From Venezuelan Writers, Artists and Academics

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Josh

Lautre Nom wrote:

>When is a vote a vote?
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>One issue that strikes me as interesting coming out of this, is that there seems to be a growing tendency around the world to fight elections retrospectively and extra-democratically (e.g. though statistical and judicial means).  ......
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>  The constitutionally regulated coup, posing as popular democracy, is a phenomena worth investigating.  Maybe I'll do so, if I have any time left over after fulfilling all those democratic duties.
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This seems relevant to the role that many NGO's play. How many "popular
uprisings" today are generated by those NGO's who promote democracy in
the neo lib sense, democracry tied to good policy frameworks. Georgia,
Haiti, Venezuela all come to mind in this regard, even poor old East
Timor and here in Mozambique. Those white hats of the Carter Centre and
the like. I think this role of NGO's in promoting the "constitutionally
regulated coup" is in part what H&N were trying to get at in Empire.

Another thing that seems to raise its head here is the incommunicability
of struggles. I wonder if there was a lot of confusion about this idea
in Empire. One of my Panamanian students led me down a path of
considering it as a part of the segementation of the imperial landscape.
That is struggles are not at their core incommunicable, but in the
spectacle of empire they appear to be. How many viewing the Venezuelan
situation through the lens of the spectacle can really feel any affinity
with the Bolivarian struggle. They see only another Latino miltaire and
this is why the the "democratic opposition"'s struggle is communicable.
The struggle that we have a hard time discerning is that that goes on
amongst the poor in Venezuela. It is incommunicable because to most
people they cannot read it. It seesm so peculiarly Venezuelan.

As Josh said:

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>My apologies if people find this comment too unrelated or unfocused, I have just been a little disturbed about the whole issue.
>
the same from me .....

Martin

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