Re: AUT: antiwar movement

[Thiago Oppermann <thiago_oppermann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/3/2004 4:03 PM, ".: s0metim3s :." <s0metim3s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Maybe it's a case of insisting that
> communicability cannot be the principal aim of
> political practice.  That is, communicability as a
> tacit agreement on the framework which makes
> communication possible.  This is precisely
> modelled on the market: products circulate within
> a framework in which they are all measurable,
> exchangeable and communicable precisely be
> reference to the universal standard.  What makes
> something no longer a product is when it cannot be
> measured, does not circulate within this
> framework, is incommunicable. When difference
> isn't just figured as a difference of 'taste' or
> 'opinion' relegated to the 'private' sphere of
> consumption but as irreducible difference.

Somewhere, Saul Kripke argued on Wittgensteinian grounds that the nature of
language was such as to make planning of meaning impossible ...therefore no
planned economy was possible. That was a hoot.

Thiago



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