RE: AUT: antiwar movement

[".: s0metim3s :." <s0metim3s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very nicely put, Peter.  I was being lazy,
rhetorical.  The last two paras seem to me not at
all ephemeral, but quite empirical accounts of
what actually occurs in various struggles over
time.

Angela

: Angela said:
: >
: > Someone else noted the couplet
: > singularities/multitudes: is this
: another way of
: > reintroducing pluralism as a more
: sophisticated
: > form of homogeneity (which is precisely what
: > pluralism always has been) or does it actually
: > imply a break with such models for regarding
: > diversity?
:
: Isn't rhizomatic power (the
: singularities/multitude) distinguishable from
: pluralism by the removal of the
: assumption of communicability?
:
: I mean, with pluralism, there is a call
: for "us all" to understand each
: other - so it basically is a called for
: us in all our different identity
: boxes to somehow "unite", with that
: unity being machined through some
: consensus based on reason.
:
: Whereas, as I understand rhizomatic
: power, there are moments of exodus
: (singularities, or as the collectivo
: situaciones call them, situations,
: maybe the same thing as what Chris
: calls micro-rebellions) that are not
: necessarily mutually intelligible, but
: which may be linked (transverse
: links). The subsumption of life within
: capital (i know, controversial
: turf) provides a level on which these
: struggles are connected, but that's
: pretty abstracted from people's
: everyday experience. I think this
: methodological description from
: Precarias a la Deriva is good:
:
: "We talk, therefore, of seeking common
: places and, simultaneously, of
: singularities to strengthen. This
: approximation has grown through the
: subsequent debates which have made us
: modify the initial utterance ?we
: are precarious workers? for others less
: prone to affirming identity as an
: original element and more attentive to
: the processes of
: (de)identification.[7]
:
: Our situations are so diverse, so
: partial, that it is very difficult to
: find common denominators from which to
: elaborate alliances and
: irreducible differences with which to
: mutually enrich ourselves.  It is
: complicated for us to express
: ourselves, to define ourselves from the
: common place of precariousness; a
: precariousness capable of bypassing a
: clear collective identity through which
: to simplify and defend itself,
: but one which demands discussion.  We
: need to communicate the lacks and
: the excesses of our working and living
: situations in order to escape from
: the neoliberal fragmentation which
: separates and debilitates us, turning
: us into victims of fear, of
: exploitation or of the individualism of ?each
: one for herself.? But, above all, we
: want to make possible the collective
: construction of other lives through a
: shared creative struggle.  Our
: insistence upon singularity we owe to
: our desire to not produce, once
: again, false homogeneities, without
: permitting that this insistence
: prevents us from saying anything at all."
:
: To put it simply... we all try and
: escape. Sometimes our lines of flight
: link up, at least for a while. We try
: and strengthen each other in this
: process - that's through a process of
: enquiry and action. But other times
: words fail, bonds break, we separate,
: maybe to meet up again in another
: time, another place.
:
: Maybe that sounds too ephemeral for
: some, but my personal believe is that
: in the strengthen of every singularity,
: the valorisation of each exodus,
: is a better bet than to deny the
: particularity of each situation, and
: then subsequently subsume of agency
: within some overall "revolutionary
: strategy".
:
: Peter
: --
: Peter van Heusden
: pvh@xxxxxxxxxxxx
: Tel: +27 (0)83 256 0457




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