RE: AUT: excerpt from interview with Negri

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

You'll have to ask Chris H what he meant by
'co-option.'  I already said I'm not sure how
useful a word it is, when used as a way to
describe the relationships and conflicts between
movements and the institutional Left.   As for any
supposed traffic the other way: I don't think that
movements always articulate demands or programmes,
or rather: I don't think movements are defined by
such. In those instances when the institutional
Left echo particular demands, I can't think of
examples where some refraction or translation has
not occured which would make those demands
amenable to the continuing preoccupations and
self-perceptions of the institutional Left.  The
distance which separates the two contains a
critique in some fashion -- otherwise there would
be no distinction, right?


Angela


: What do you mean by 'co-option'? Do you
: mean the institutional left
: 'co-opting' the more fluid movements?
: Or the former coopting the
: programs and demands of the latter?




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