Re: Launching "The Class Tango Theory of History"

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/3/06, Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This would have to do with the TEMPO of work in industrial society,
> which is established by the pace of the power-driven implement
> (uniform) and of exchange (virtually instantaneous). The "unfreedom"
> of necessity consists only of the lack of control over tempos that
> are, in essence, a-rhythmic because of their speed and uniformity. The
> unnaturalness of such rhythms does not preclude, however,
> re-integrating them as elements into a larger rhythmic structure. And
> that larger structure articulates periods of work and rest. The
> uniformity and speed of industrial society thus become merely formal
> constraints rather than obstacles to freedom.

But why tango, rather than some other kind of dance?
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Yoshie
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