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Faute de lecture, #14 (transcryption):
marginalia:: New / re / solutions <> rough notes —
inconclusive — [as if notes and transcription of a lecture on "What Is To Be
Done?”] — speaker’s identity Monty Cantsin (see my notes on Cantsin). [Marco D
[not being a very good note taker; I’m not J-A Miller in those other seminars
that appears to have written down seminar notes that no one else even heard].
[so, not “me” as speaker / passing along /
"multiple fronts. multiple strategies. alliances.”
— some contradictory
— some convert
— some conductive / provocative /
1/ kettle logic as state-sanctioned logic: [recall: Freud’s description]:
That he had returned the kettle undamaged;
That it was already damaged when he borrowed it;
That he had never borrowed it in the first place. [see also JD]
Notice how this is the logic ALWAYS in play in the current dDT
administration.
<> appropriate response [or What Would Lacan Do?]: “Yes,” [agreeing with dDT,
and #4 in the sequence]: “And, he could not have damaged the kettle because his
own kettle is missing.”
<> see also General McCaffrey on most effective military strategy “spoof” the
enemies news and information sources —
<> generate “fake” — with this logic where NO INDIVIDUAL STATEMENT IS FALSE —
but the combination and conclusions — seems to follow logic of news and
evidence. Work/s anonymously —
<> viral … meme … pseudonyms.
<> [see also S.Home, M.Deseriis, many others — everyone on the -empyre list?]
2/ Continue to denounce — the above — calm, rational, evidence-based. Single
issue, mass action orientation. post actions on social media. do not get caught
up with red herrings and phishing expeditions. <> de(an)nounce the above ONLY —
ignore the Real dDT — FRAME it without the dDT having a place in the
conversation [Nunberg Avec Heartfield] — — [classic strategy both “sides” are
within the frame you set-up …
3/ [indecipherable] — [something about writing the ph number of your lawyer in
Sharpie on your arm, just in case][see also RDominguez]
4\ PTSD (aka historical memory)[fate de lecture.]:
Epigram: “We thought it would last a year or two.” [from child of the
holocaust, on the new regime marching into Vienna 1938]
History of Austria: was already under rule by its second autocrat since 1933,
and had already assasinated labor leaders and socialists. We always forget —
who here remembers the dictator Dollfuss (assisinated by the even farther right
Nazis?). Who remembers that Schuschnigg (the current autocrat in 1938)
exclaimed in January of 1938: “There is no question of ever accepting Nazi
representatives in the Austrian cabinet. An absolute abyss separates Austria
from Nazism. . . We reject uniformity and centralization. . . . not the
Nation, or that elusive thing, Race.”
"At first there were parades. Then the change happened quickly.” [from child
of the holocaust]
[see also White Rose]
5\ faute de lecture, misreading or lack of reading [book knowledge], … an
intentional faux pas of sorts leading to a fauxte de lecture,[RBurt] "when it
comes to talking about a topic that is considered to be taboo in many
circumstances."
6\ my manifesto [w/ my psuedonym dj readies]:
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/intimate-bureaucracies/
[also see report on No Power in NOLA — about power expressed in lack of power —
drowing us in a tub.
. . .
On Jan 4, 2017, at 10:18 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote:
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Happy New Year as well!
Resolutions coupled with critique; this is a period when we have to fight,
against not only fake news, diatribes, violence and hatred, but also against
simplistic analysis; we must learn to listen - to any and all voices. We were
not prepared to comprehend the suddeness of the concrete overturning of
legislations we fought for and believe in, and too many of us have turned to
such despair, as to be basically dysfunctional; I see this over and over again.
So we must stay alive (too much talk of suicide and total resignation) in the
first place; and we must be prepared to resist, on whatever level we can.
- Resist, make art, make noise, be furious!
(A personal resolution - to stay away from Facebook and other social media
platitudes/aphorisms that serve to comfort us - and instead tend towards deeper
listening and analysis: not against theory, but theory with a swerve and the
long take. The world's too complex otherwise and the surface of Fb etc. is
horrific and inauthentic (in Sartre's sense) in this regard. And another
personal resolution - to stay away from Heidegger!)
- Alan
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