Re: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF ENFORCED SOCIALITY

[Ralph Dumain <rdumain@xxxxxxx>]

At 01:23 AM 6/10/99 +0100, Giles Peaker wrote:
 >However, one thing that Adorno won't readily admit, highlighted by your
>comments on the children whose ethics already exceed those who would teach
>them what it is to be human, is that the experience and labour of the
>negative goes on elsewhere, outside those realms, everyday. One must believe
>that a significant amount of those children's experience is going to have to
>consist of a determinate refusal: not accepting bureaucratic values even as
>these become their benchmarks; not being a part of... (and God knows that is
>hard for all of us, let alone for children); not having an accepted, or
>apparently viable, place from which to make their judgements - at least
>without falling into either the very rhetoric of individual 'becoming' which
>seeks to ensnare them, or seeking some other identity politics.

Beautiful!