Re: Global Financial Crisis II

[Doug Henwood]

Tom Walker wrote:

>I will say, however, that pooh-poohing the apocalypse can be as much of a
>pose as apocalypticism itself. It might even be interesting to ask whether
>apocalyptic pooh-poohing isn't itself just a variation on the theme of
>apocalypse. In other words, Sawicky's rhetorical labelling of Chossudovsky's
>tract as "apocalyptic" was itself an apocalyptic gesture.

Are you waxing deconstructive here, Tom? Being anti-apocalyptic requies an
(unacknowledge) dependency on the notion of apocalypse? If so, what is the
unnarativizable other?

Speaking of which, has anyone ever deconstructed the
productive/unproductive labor binary?

Doug